Can we compare the Cuban Missile Crisis with Ukraine? Khrushchev didn’t want World War III, we don’t know with Putin

According to US President Joe Biden, the world is as close to the nuclear abyss as it was during the Cuban Missile Crisis, at the height of the Cold War. He warned that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin is not bluffing when he says he is considering tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine. At the end of October 1962, the world crawled through the eye of the needle, when Soviet leader Khrushchev placed nuclear missiles in communist Cuba. What are the parallels with today?

ttn-3