Every decision the president made was in an effort not to humiliate or dishonor the Soviet Union or his own president, so that things would not escalate into war. It was because President Kennedy put himself in the Soviet shoes, so to speak, that he was reluctant to attack the missile site, to board Russian ships, to choose quarantine and blockade over military strikes. John Kennedy understood that the Soviet Union wanted war as much as America did. When Russia agreed to remove missiles from Cuba, he did not claim any kind of victory for himself and even prevented his staff from giving interviews stating that America had achieved victory over Russia (Kennedy,98), because it is not never been his goal to humiliate, just to reach a peaceful agreement, which he and the Russian president