If all the nations of the earth except for one small isolated island were converted to pure international communism, the misery and failure of the communist nations would be blamed on the existence of the bourgeois capitalists on the free market island who were resisting and therefore obstructing the implementation of utopia.
Yes.
The Communists always need some straw man to blame for their problems. How else to explain that the Communist Paradise is not coming as promised?
USA has been always such a straw man.
Unfortunately, there are too many in the USA who do not see through that and believe that we are the problem!