On October 8, 1962, Cuban President Osvaldo Dorticós told the UN General Assembly that there would be no need for Cuba to possess nuclear weapons were the US to guarantee that it would not invade Cuba as the US had attempted to do the year before.  In other words, Cuba would trade missiles for a More

The post Give Putin What He Wants appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

This post was originally published on CounterPunch.org.