Former Intelligence Officials Warn of Reverse Cuban Missile Crisis Over NATO Nuclear Deployments

What was said

"Finland has approved the transit and deployment of NATO nuclear weapons on its territory. Lithuania announced earlier today it would do the same. Now what you have here is the makings of a Cuban missile crisis in reverse. If these people put nuclear weapons in Finland and in Lithuania, and God forbid elsewhere, the Russians are going to react very very strongly and they're going to try everything they can do to prevent them from going in there."

Ray McGovern, a former senior CIA analyst, revealed that Finland has approved NATO nuclear weapons deployment on its territory, with Lithuania following suit. He characterized this as a reverse Cuban Missile Crisis, warning that Russia would respond with sophisticated weaponry including Iskanders against NATO nations if the deployments proceed. McGovern suggested Russia might attack NATO members who deploy nuclear weapons on their borders, echoing the Ukrainian conflict's origins.