Cuba Missile Crisis 1962: Blundering on the Brink and the Russo-Ukrainian War

Are there parallels or lessons in comparing the current Russo-Ukrainian War and the Cuban Missile Crisis?

"... At a question-and-answer session he held in October [2022?], Putin was asked about parallels between the current crisis and the one Moscow faced 60 years earlier. He responded cryptically. “I cannot imagine myself in the role of Khrushchev,” he said. “No way.” But if Putin cannot see the similarities between Khrushchev’s predicament and the one he now faces, then he truly is an amateur historian. Russia, it seems, still has not learned the lesson of the Cuban missile crisis: that the whims of an autocratic ruler can lead his country into a geopolitical cul-de-sac—and the world to the edge of calamity. ..."

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