> The entire point of such a move at the time was first strike capability, which is entirely offensive in nature. You know one of the reasons for Soviet missil

> The entire point of such a move at the time was first strike capability, which is entirely offensive in nature. You know one of the reasons for Soviet missile deployment on Cuba was to counterbalance US missile deployment in Turkey, right? And that the resolution of Cuban missile crisis was basically "withdrawing US nukes from Turkey in exchange for withdrawing Soviet nukes from Cuba"? Was the US missile deployment in Turkey "desire to destroy us [Soviets] without provocation", by your own words?