[Fiji Hill]

Do you know why there was a missile crises? Because after Kennedy's completely bungled, incompetent, immoral backstabbing of the Cuban Freedom fighters, Castro demanded the means for retaliating against the United States to prevent them from launching another invasion against him.
He demanded the Soviets give him nukes to stop another such invasion.
Again, it's because that F***ing Kennedy F***ed up the invasion of Cuba, we had a Cuban missile crises.

It also just so happened that the 1962 elections were coming up, and the GOP looked to make some major gains. Kennedy could have perpetrated the crisis in the summer of 1962, when evidence of Soviet missiles in Cuba first emerged and Senator Kenneth Keating (R-NY) was making speech after speech on this issue. But the president chose to raise the issue in mid-October, and the crisis was resolved nine days before the election.

Many Democrat candidates benefited from the euphoria felt by many Americans who were relieved that thermonuclear war had apparently been averted while the Republicans complained that the election was "Cubanized."

[DiogenesLamp]

We came d@mn close to having a nuclear exchange with Russia. Were it not for a rational Soviet sub commander, there would have been launched a nuclear torpedo that would have guaranteed start a nuclear war with the USSR.

If Kennedy was playing politics with these events, he was even stupider than I thought he was.