“This makes sense... Back in the 60’s WE didn’t want Cuba with missiles 90 miles off our border either...”
We didn’t want Cuba with OFFENSIVE Russian NUCLEAR missiles, but we accepted defensive missiles, and one of them even shot down one of our U2s flown by Major Rudolf Anderson, USAF.
If this had been the Russians objecting to the U.S. putting nuclear weapons in Ukraine, the. Sure, that's a legitimate plaint. But that's not what happened.