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After the mid 20's, you can
get a lot further in predicting Soviet foreign policy using a straight line
national interest calculation than an ideological one.
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CB: How was almost going to nuclear war with the U.S. over Cuba in the Soviet narrow
national interest ? How was one way economic support to Cuba and other countries in
Soviet national interest ?
The SU had internationalist foreign policy
Sure, the USSR supported some national liberation movements--that is one of
the few half-way decent things it did. But it never did that when it didn't
seem that this would not further great power goals.
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CB: The SU didn't act like a capitalist great power. It didn't have colonies , i.e.
economically exploitative relations with the other socialist and socialist path nations
