1. The forest is valued because there's animals in the forests. 2. Yes. 3. They are valued a lot when there a doing that.
It was a gamble, and most observes argue that khrushchev lost. in his memoirs, he claimed that the outcome of the missile crisis was a triumph of soviet foreign policy and a personal triumph, but few, even on the soviet side, have seen it that way. Cuba was perhaps a subsidiary consideration for khrushchev.
