Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, referring to the war in Ukraine, said he hoped US President Joe Biden would have the wisdom to face a global confrontation similar to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sparked the biggest confrontation between Moscow and the West since that crisis in 1962, when the Soviet Union and the US are seen as coming closer than ever to nuclear war.
Then-US President John F. Kennedy discovered that then-Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev had deployed nuclear missiles in Cuba, after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion—a US-backed Cuban exile operation to topple communist rule—that was overthrown from Cuba- and the deployment of American missiles in Italy and Turkey.
In an interview on a Russian state television documentary about the Missile Crisis, Lavrov noted that there are “similarities” to 1962, mainly because Russia is now threatened by Western weapons in Ukraine.
“I hope that in the current situation, President Joe Biden will have more opportunities to understand who is giving orders and how,” the Russian Foreign Minister emphasized with a faint smile. “This situation is very worrying.”
“The difference is that in the distant 1962, Khrushchev and Kennedy found the strength to show responsibility and wisdom, and now we do not see such readiness on the part of Washington and its satellites,” continued the head of Russian diplomacy.
White House officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Source: News Beast
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