{"id":1470886,"date":"2024-06-12T01:40:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T05:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1470886"},"modified":"2024-06-12T01:40:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T05:40:00","slug":"korybko-dont-read-too-deeply-into-russias-naval-visit-to-the-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/korybko-dont-read-too-deeply-into-russias-naval-visit-to-the-caribbean\/1470886\/","title":{"rendered":"Korybko: Don’t Read Too Deeply Into Russia’s Naval Visit To The Caribbean"},"content":{"rendered":"

Korybko: Don’t Read Too Deeply Into Russia’s Naval Visit To The Caribbean<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

US officials\u00a0claimed<\/a>\u00a0last week that Russia is sending several warships and aircraft to the Caribbean, where they\u2019re expected to visit Cuba and Venezuela once they arrive sometime soon, which Havana then\u00a0confirmed<\/a>.<\/strong> This coincided with the further worsening of Russian-US ties amidst the latter\u2019s\u00a0dangerous game of nuclear chicken<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Ukraine<\/a>\u00a0and came as President Putin\u00a0cryptically warned<\/a>\u00a0that his country could arm the US\u2019 enemies just like they\u2019re arming Russia\u2019s.<\/p>\n

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This context might have prompted some observers to remember that Deputy Chairman of the Duma\u2019s Defense Committee and leader of the Rodina party Alexei Zhuravlev told local media in late January that Russia should base nuclear missiles and associated submarines in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.<\/strong> It was advised at the time\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0not to read too deeply into his suggestion since it was likely only shared for the sake of media hype and could backfire on Russia\u2019s partners if it provokes a sharp uptick in US meddling. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Likewise, observers also shouldn\u2019t read too deeply into Russia\u2019s upcoming naval visit to the Caribbean either since this appears to be nothing but a symbolic move aimed at showing the West that Russia can position forces on their borders too and that it\u2019s not \u201cisolated\u201d like their media claims. It\u2019s important to note that the unnamed US officials downplayed this development by claiming that they don\u2019t regard it as a threat, which is true, but they might also have ulterior motives for saying so.<\/p>\n

Some might have expected that they\u2019d exploit this move to maximally fearmonger about Russia ahead of the November elections, but the argument can be made that drawing attention to this would play into Moscow\u2019s hands by enabling it to more compellingly make the abovementioned points to the US public. <\/strong><\/p>\n

For that reason, while the US is downplaying this visit (at least for the time being), publicly financed Russian international media and sympathetic independent media will probably hype it up.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Getting Americans to feel what it\u2019s like to have a nuclear-armed adversary in their backyard might convince more of them that their government should take\u00a0tangible<\/a>\u00a0steps<\/a>\u00a0towards\u00a0freezing<\/a>\u00a0the\u00a0Ukrainian<\/a>\u00a0Conflict<\/a>\u00a0before tensions spiral out of control.<\/strong> In what many expect to be a close election, this could make all the difference over who wins, though President Putin already said that\u00a0the outcome doesn\u2019t matter<\/a>\u00a0for Russia.<\/p>\n

Even so, there are certainly some policymakers here who despise Biden for what he\u2019s done to Russia through Ukraine, and they might want their media to amplify the messages being sent by these upcoming drills to give Trump an edge as revenge for the incumbent\u2019s warmongering. There\u2019s also the possibility, however faint it might appear at present, that Russia considers selling its Caribbean partners missiles that could hit the US or \u201cleaks\u201d this scenario to its media to spread to Americans.<\/p>\n

All told, the real significance of this upcoming visit is to make American policymakers and the public uneasy, not to prepare for attacking the US or bolstering its regional partners\u2019 capability to do so.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The unnamed officials who talked to the media about this understand Russia\u2019s goal very well and that\u2019s why they downplayed this visit\u2019s military importance, but it\u2019s precisely for this reason that Russian media and sympathetic independent outlets might make this trip out to be something that it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nTue, 06\/11\/2024 – 21:40<\/span><\/p>\n

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