cuban missile crisis 19622 Mar 2022 16:04
Reading up on some fascinating stuff on Wikipedia on the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and I wonder if we might have similar secret agreements again to resolve the current crisis
"After several days of tense negotiations, an agreement was reached between Kennedy and Khrushchev. Publicly, the Soviets would dismantle their offensive weapons in Cuba and return them to the Soviet Union, subject to UN verification, in exchange for a US public declaration and agreement to not invade Cuba again. Secretly, the United States agreed that it would dismantle all of the Jupiter MRBMs, which had been deployed in Turkey against the Soviet Union"
It also notes that Kennedy was new to the presidency in 1961 and gave the Russians "the impression that Kennedy was indecisive and, as one Soviet adviser wrote, "too young, intellectual, not prepared well for decision making in crisis situations.."
The may be some coincidence with the new American incumbent ?