The Current Discussion: What's the next likely target of Russia's reassertion of power?

The Kremlin's next step in its confrontation with the United States could be the establishment of some sort of military alliance with Cuba and Venezuela. One possibility is the reopening of an electronic surveillance base designed to spy on U.S. communications, similar to "Lourdes," the huge espionage center that operated near Havana until a few years ago, when Putin himself decided to close it. That facility now houses a university center for computer sciences, from which at least 100 advanced students, all members of the Communist Youth, participate in an intense propaganda war waged on the Internet in favor of the Cuban dictatorship and Marxist ideology.

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