I say let them. Only costs them money and it doesn’t change anything.
So the Cuba crisis gets a sequel?
> But these days, when the Russian fleet is vastly reduced in size, a Russian military base in Latin America simply “has no role”, Luzin added.
The “role” would be leverage with Ukraine, or some other large Russian geopolitical ask, such as renewing a missile treaty.
> But a base in another hemisphere makes no sense.
It does make sense, if its closure is to be traded away for other geopolitical goals. Russia can probably open a small new base and station some small amount of nuclear weapons for lets say $25 million dollars.
> Considering the costs involved if this ‘threat’ were to be carried out in a strategically relevant way
The author never states these costs. Nor does he state the possible rewards, other than the USSR was able to get nuclear weapons removed from Turkey in the 60’s, which was geopoliticaly a very large accomplishment for them.
> and the relatively small contribution this would make to Russia’s priorities in Ukraine
Again, $25 million cost to set the base and then close it down a month later and potentially get something big in return in Ukraine, such as the US staying out of it or something else. $25 million would be cheap to buy that game piece.
I don’t care how real it is, but I’d be happy if prospects, even unrealistic ones, of further, say, Cuban-Russian, or Venezuelian-Russian military cooperation would push US to be more friendly with those nations.
That famous embargo on Cuba is despicable, and sanctions aganst Venezuela don’t seem to do anything, except making lives of people living there even more miserable than they already are.
If the U.S. can do it on Russia’s doorstep, then Russia should be able to do it back.
I wish the Russian government the best of luck in their pointless efforts to create a military base in South America.
strategically useless expensive and a clear sign to any sane government in South America to rearm boycott Russia and improve relations with the West.
The Russian base in Syria did not improve Russian relations with Middle Eastern states especially not the strong ones like Israel and Turkey both have contingency plans to destroy that base.
A base in Venezuela Will alienate the Brazilians and Colombians to such an extent they will never vote for any pro Russian politician in the future for a very long time.
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I say let them. Only costs them money and it doesn’t change anything.
So the Cuba crisis gets a sequel?
> But these days, when the Russian fleet is vastly reduced in size, a Russian military base in Latin America simply “has no role”, Luzin added.
The “role” would be leverage with Ukraine, or some other large Russian geopolitical ask, such as renewing a missile treaty.
> But a base in another hemisphere makes no sense.
It does make sense, if its closure is to be traded away for other geopolitical goals. Russia can probably open a small new base and station some small amount of nuclear weapons for lets say $25 million dollars.
> Considering the costs involved if this ‘threat’ were to be carried out in a strategically relevant way
The author never states these costs. Nor does he state the possible rewards, other than the USSR was able to get nuclear weapons removed from Turkey in the 60’s, which was geopoliticaly a very large accomplishment for them.
> and the relatively small contribution this would make to Russia’s priorities in Ukraine
Again, $25 million cost to set the base and then close it down a month later and potentially get something big in return in Ukraine, such as the US staying out of it or something else. $25 million would be cheap to buy that game piece.
I don’t care how real it is, but I’d be happy if prospects, even unrealistic ones, of further, say, Cuban-Russian, or Venezuelian-Russian military cooperation would push US to be more friendly with those nations.
That famous embargo on Cuba is despicable, and sanctions aganst Venezuela don’t seem to do anything, except making lives of people living there even more miserable than they already are.
If the U.S. can do it on Russia’s doorstep, then Russia should be able to do it back.
I wish the Russian government the best of luck in their pointless efforts to create a military base in South America.
strategically useless expensive and a clear sign to any sane government in South America to rearm boycott Russia and improve relations with the West.
The Russian base in Syria did not improve Russian relations with Middle Eastern states especially not the strong ones like Israel and Turkey both have contingency plans to destroy that base.
A base in Venezuela Will alienate the Brazilians and Colombians to such an extent they will never vote for any pro Russian politician in the future for a very long time.