Oh look an ex soviet grifter who was a low level employee in India and can not speak with any authority on the matters of "cultural Leninism"
Serious questions to anti-Putin Americans: if Mexico developed a cozy relationship with China and Russia, and, as a sovereign nation, decided it wanted to install their nukes on its (Mexico's) land, would America allow it? (This is a serious question, please don't treat it lightly.)
2. Well before the Soviets put nukes in Cuba.
"1" is debatable (it was US-backed).