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Moving Soviet missiles to Cuba was a deterrence and that almost triggered a nuclear war.
For the USSR, it was a response to the missiles in Turkey. But Cuba wanted those missiles there also as a deterrence to not have a repeat of the bay of pigs invasion.
In that case it was both.