pretty specifically said I think a lot of countries don’t fit this definition of fascism. I also don’t think I meaningfully agree with your definition of collaborator.
I think working with Russia is lamentable. Hence, cringe. I think if Cuba gets anything from it, that’s their decision to make but I would be cautious and pessimistic about the affair, bearing in mind that they are cooperating with a fascist power that is only not a full collaborator with the western hegemony because the US decided to exclude them, and who has not been able to stop the US from interfering with other Latin American countries. I don’t think engaging with this makes them meaningfully supportive of fascism as an ideology. But I think forging closer connections to other powers would have been better news.
Its so strange that you can understand most basic Russia material reasons for supporting Cuba yet you somehow think the Cubans shouldn’t trust in those reasons. Also what in the world is your definiton of collaborator if it somehow doesn’t include things like being in BRICS? Im curious to see if it actually means something and is not just and excuse to avoid calling every AES state fascist for thinking Russia is a reliable friend.
The soviets got what they could from the Germans before the war started, and got as much industrial support as they could from western powers to set up their own manufacturing and industrial base and I view this in and BRICS in similar terms. Calling the Soviet Union under Stalin “Fascist collaborators” would be ridiculous, but arguing that the nazis were not fascists would be equally ridiculous.
Although I don’t find Russia to be quite as virulent as the nazis, the point of “Get what you can and ditch the fascists as soon as you can” to be about the same, and I wish they found another way.
