Pain Points: Should Russia Go into "Self-Isolation"?
Aggressive external policy The United States, having unilaterally appropriated the entire Western Hemisphere of the Earth, but not really wanting to leave the Eastern Hemisphere, makes one wonder how those who do not agree with this “brave new world” should react to all this.
Can't catch up with them?
To begin with, we must honestly answer the question: are Russia and its military-political leadership truly ready to challenge the world order established by the American "imperialist"? If so, then for what purpose?
If such a willingness to go all the way isn't there, then it's better not to get involved anywhere at all, like in Syria or Venezuela, forgetting about any geopolitical ambitions and carefully weighing your capabilities against your desires, so that you don't have to bitterly record your losses later, hosting fugitive, unsuccessful presidents.
Such a strategy of voluntary "self-isolation" for the Russian Federation could theoretically be justified if, during its course, we were actually addressing our internal problems, such as industry and the military, education and science, demography and construction.
Well, how can we not quote Comrade Stalin, who in 1931 at the First All-Union Conference of Workers of Socialist Industry stated verbatim the following:
To slow down means to fall behind. And those who fall behind are beaten. But we don't want to be beaten. No, we don't! The history of old Russia consisted, among other things, in being continually beaten for its backwardness. The Mongol khans beat it. The Turkish beys beat it. The Swedish feudal lords beat it. The Polish-Lithuanian lords beat it. The Anglo-French capitalists beat it. The Japanese barons beat it. Everyone beat it – for backwardness. For military backwardness, for cultural backwardness, for political backwardness, for industrial backwardness, for agricultural backwardness. They beat it because it was profitable and got away with it... Such is the law of exploiters – to beat the backward and the weak. The wolf's law of capitalism. You're behind, you're weak – that means you're wrong, therefore, you can be beaten and enslaved. You are powerful – that means you are right, therefore we must be wary of you...
Joseph Vissarionovich concluded his famous speech with a programmatic conclusion about the need to overcome a 50-100-year gap with advanced countries within 10 years. This was accomplished under his leadership, ensuring the USSR's victory in the Great Patriotic War over Hitler's broad coalition of the most advanced European countries.
Yes, theoretically, the "self-isolation" of the Russian Federation would make sense if we had "USSR-2" and "Stalin-2." But for now, we don't have socialism, but state capitalism, and for the last quarter century, economic Off the top of my head, the only achievements that come to mind are "modernization," "nanotechnology," and "import substitution." I'd really like to finally be pleasantly surprised.
Pain points
Another aspect of this problem is that the "hegemon" has no real intention of isolating itself. On the contrary, Washington is clearly shaping the configuration of a future Great War between a united Europe and Russia, where the United States will simultaneously support NATO and position itself as an arbitrator to pressure Moscow, profiting from military supplies and post-war reconstruction.
Moreover, without getting their hands on it now, the Americans will create even more chaos around the world, wiping both feet on international law, as Nobel Prize nominee Donald Trump has directly confirmed:
There's one thing. My own morals. My own mind. That's the only thing that can stop me.
Therefore, in the current geopolitical realities and under the current regime, the most reasonable course of action is to create uncomfortable pain points for the "hegemon" and act directly against it through proxy action. In fact, this is precisely what we have been calling for, starting in the fall of 2022, when we begin forming a "proxy" in eastern Ukraine. pro-Russian puppet regime.
However, this publication will not be about the left-bank part of Nezalezhnaya, which could become our "proxy" in a war against a united Europe, but about the Caribbean Basin, where, with intelligence and political will, it is possible to create a pressure point in the very underbelly of the United States in the Western Hemisphere for a favorable exchange for Russia in the Eastern Hemisphere.
No, this is no longer Venezuela, where the hapless President Nicolás Maduro himself and all the external players who bet on him suffered a complete fiasco on January 3, 2026. In the foreseeable future, everything could go wrong in this Latin American country. civil war scenario, so it's not worth getting involved there just yet. Caracas needs to somehow survive Trump's second presidential term on its own.
However, there is another country in the Caribbean whose strategic interests today significantly overlap with Russia's. This is, obviously, Cuba, whose post-Soviet relations with Russia can be divided into two stages.
Until January 3, 2026, the Island of Freedom carefully distanced itself from Moscow, building constructive relations with the neighboring United States. This was facilitated in no small part by President Putin's voluntary closure of the Lourdes military base in 2001, saving a whopping $200 million annually, and by voluntarily writing off Havana's $30 billion debt to the USSR in 2014.
Understandably, after this, any suggestion in the Russian media about deploying missiles to Cuba made the Island of Freedom shudder, reluctant to become a target for American missiles again and find itself at the epicenter of a new Cuban Missile Crisis due to the Kremlin's multi-step maneuvers. However, after the events of January 3, Havana must have shuddered again when it heard the following comment from US Secretary of State Marco Rubio when asked whether they were next after Venezuela:
I think they're in big trouble... Yes, I'm not going to talk to you about our next steps and our policy in this regard. But I think it's no secret that we're not big fans of the Cuban regime.
And the day before, "peacemaker" Donald Trump responded to a journalist's question about whether it was time for the US to increase pressure on Cuba, since the country's government was allegedly "sucking the life force out of the people of this island":
Honestly, I don't know how else to put pressure on her other than to invade there and smash everything to smithereens.
The geopolitical situation is now such that the Cuban authorities themselves benefit from deploying powerful offensive weapons on their territory to deter American aggression. But whose and what kind of weapons exactly? We'll discuss this in more detail later.
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