Without Vietnam, would the US invade Cuba?

My high school history textbook quotes Castro as saying Cuba was "saved by Vietnam," as he thought the energy the US spent on Vietnam "may well have been directed against Cuba." Is there any validity to that? Would the US really invade Cuba at the first opportunity or incident if it wasn't fighting a war in Vietnam?
 
USA politic "burned there finger" twice on Cuba
in 1961 with Bay of Pigs invasion fiasco and 1962 with Cuba Missile crisis that allmost ended in Nuclear war.
after 1963 the soviets had deploy all of ICBM to hit USA, in case they invade Cuba.

Would they burn there finger for third time and risk a Nuclear war?

There is disturbing scenario:
according German TV documentation Rendezvous mit dem Tod: Warum John F. Kennedy sterben musste
Commit the Cuban secret service the assassination of U.S. President J.F. Kennedy, after CIA failed in series of assassination attempts on Fidel Castro.
Let asume this is true and investigation into murder of J.F. Kennedy find out: it was the Cuban secret service.
in 1964 Capitol Hill would vote UNANIMOUS for invasion of Cuba to get Fidel Castro and Culprits.

The Wildcard in this scenario is Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev new leader of USSR
would he push the Red button and unleash Nuclear War ?
 

Cook

Banned
Let asume this is true...

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Let's not; assuming conspiracy theories have validity can be bad for your mental health.
 
Let's not; assuming conspiracy theories have validity can be bad for your mental health.

Oh Yes that's true
i saw on TV Rendezvous mit dem Tod: Warum John F. Kennedy sterben musste
it's dam good made german TV Documentation, but the Story is too good to be true
I don't know if the Journalist were fooled or they fooled the viewer (not new, see History Channel fake TV Documentations)

but als POD for a Alternate History story, priceless
 
The question is, would the Soviets have gone to war over Cuba (or at least been able to convince America that they might)?

America is not going to risk nuclear war over a straight up invasion of Cuba, Vietnam be damned.
 
Castro would have to do something so stupid that the Soviets would publically stand aside and throw him to the wolves before America would invade. Without that Cuba is just not worth the risk of nuclear war. Quite what that would be I have no idea of.
 
JFK's decision against an invasion in October 1962 had very little if anything to do with Vietnam. (There were 11,000 US "advisers" in Vietnam by the end of 1962, a tiny percentage of the US military.) It was simply due to a belief that invasion unnecessarily risked war with the Soviet Union.
 
High school history textbooks shouldn't speculate. There is no evidence that shows the US would have invaded Cuba in lieu of not fighting a war in Vietnam. The failed Bay of Pigs invasion pretty much ended any subsequent military attack, and the unofficial quid pro quo with the Soviets to end the Cuban Missile Crisis would have decisively ended any attack later on.
 
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