In ten years Russia will have even less capability to project power across oceans than they do today. Russia has a large number of ships but most of them are alongside, in extended years-long refit, and they count small boats like RHIBS as ‘ships’.
They have a predominantly littoral surface fleet and a declining submarine fleet.
Conversely, the US Navy is a focused blue water navy with little to no littoral components. The US Navy abdicated the littoral role to the Coasties after WW2...which is why the USGC often gets deployed to shallow water theatres such as the Tigris-Euphrates delta.
In short, the Russians can threaten to send troops to Cuba and Venezuela all they want. Now let’s see them do it.
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That is exactly correct. Great reply.