Moscow's defense in the Eastern Mediterranean
In the immediate aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis in the early 1960s, the Soviet Union realized that the Arab-Israeli conflict posed a direct threat to its security in the Eastern Mediterranean, as the U.
Although Turkey was part of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 due to the American Jupiter missiles it accepted on its territory, the USSR's approach in those years was to convince Turkey at the very least to leave NATO and become a neutral country.
military aid; NATO's adoption of the “flexible response strategy” instead of the “massive retaliation policy,” which had relied on the capacity for a response to the aggressor with nuclear weapons; the withdrawal of Jupiter missiles from Turkey during the Cuban Missile Crisis without consulting the Turkish government; poppy cultivation in Turkey; and Turkey's eventual 1974 intervention in Cyprus.
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Putin at home and the world
Internationally, Putin’s decision to run occurs against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, which has drawn the most significant global confrontation with the West since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.
By examining notable cases such as China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam, the authors seek to unravel the durability of these regimes, even in the face of severe economic crises, policy failures, public discontent, and external pressures.
They have studied and learnt from different experiences like that of the prisoners of the Vietnamese Revolution, the Cuban Revolution, and the Algerian Revolution, and considered them as important experiences through which they tried to mature and enrich their own experience.
Sergei Ryabkov, deputy foreign minister of Russia, said that he would “neither confirm nor deny” the possibility that Russia might send military assets to Cuba and Venezuela.
Currently, Latin America has a complex mix of conservative populist leaders such as Brazil’s Bolsonaro and El Salvador’s Bukele and the return of a “pink” tide after the elections of Alberto Fernandez in Argentina, Pedro Castillo in Perú, and Gabriel Boric in Chile, in addition to the left-wing governments in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.