CamillePagliacci [none/use name]
So you don’t like this move purely because of Russia?
I don’t know whether to support the move, I don’t like the optics of speaking of your warm relations with a fascist regime, and I think it is generally a mistake to trust a fascist regime with your security.
I think you need some historical perspective on this because you sound exactly the same as any western liberal.
Hey you know who said pretty much the same about Putin dealing with the oligarchs and not being so bad and actually their government is good and cool now? The obama state department before the Syrian civil war. I think the ones lacking historical perpective isn’t me., I think it’s you guys. And given the immutable fact that I am right (always) and that I’m not the one in agreement with the US state department back when it wanted to have good Russian relations, I’m pretty confident in saying so.
I’m not going to argue this unless you can provide me a definition of fascism (I.e. not "Must call their ruling party “The fascist party”) that is useful and doesn’t include the Russian government. Actually let me rephrase: Come up with a definition that includes Chile, the RoC under the KMT, South Korea, et al, but does not include Russia.
Such a definition does not exist, and cannot exist. Classic definitions of fascism promulgated by people like Robert Paxton fit Russia, definitions of fascism like a decaying capitalist state run by a bourgeois lashing promulgated by people like Clara Zetkin fit Russia, definitions like Dmitrov’s definition of fascism as the most reactionary forces of finance capitalism having control over the capitalist state fit Russia. But apparently Russia isn’t fascist because fascism is more than just being fascist.
I think there’s a side in this discussion not reckoning with the historical reality of what Russia is, and it isn’t me. It really, really, really isn’t me.
If you think the presence of Russia in a place will stop the US from interfering and trying to overthrow or remove that regime, you have not been following along. A Russian ship isn’t going to stop the US from embargoing them, it’s not going to stop them from trying to overthrow the country if they want to. Russian troops or deals with Russia haven’t stopped the US from doing so with any other latin american countries in the last decade.
I don’t presume to know or be able to accurately strategize for the perfect thing to do. I don’t even necessarily oppose whatever Cuba is doing, since I don’t know what Cuba is planning against. I just know that relying on Russia has proven to not work, and I don’t like their government. If the Cubans find this to be the best option that’s obviously their choice, but I still won’t critically support comrade hitler.