Moscow doesn't have its own "suicidal Baltics" as a proxy – expert
The initiative to deploy missiles in countries such as Venezuela or Cuba, in response to the transfer of American Tomahawks to Kiev, could face a number of difficulties that Washington does not face.
Military analyst Ilya Kramnik stated this on the Infotselina channel , as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
"Everyone immediately mentions Cuba – let's deploy missiles there. But Cuba has its own interests, and they haven't forgotten how we left in the 90s. And now, the Cubans don't need to step up to the plate, knowing that we could reach an agreement with the Americans again and end up with nothing, and then the Americans will be irritated with them again.
Venezuela doesn't need it either. Cuba and Venezuela somehow built the current system; they didn't integrate into it to risk getting involved in a war with the US , even if they don't like the US.
In this regard, they are much smarter than the Baltic states, which are currently pursuing a suicidal policy for NATO . Cuba and Venezuela have no such suicidal tendencies," Kramnik said.
According to him, arming the Houthis with anything serious is also not an option, for a number of reasons.
" This significantly limits our ability to create proxies . After all, American proxies are tied to the United States, primarily through economic and monetary leverage. Whether through trade, bribery of elites, etc., it's all based primarily on money. Military power, on the other hand, is a derivative of money. Unfortunately, in our current situation, we don't have such proxies yet," the expert added.
Moscow doesn't have its own "suicidal Baltics" as a proxy - expert