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so, AES?
No, think USSR immediately after October revolution and Lenin actively making contact with communists abroad and having back and forths of tactics and advice, and preparing the red army in case a proletarian revolution abroad needed assistance.
AES on the other hand does the opposite, staying state capitalist or even introducing free markets by choice, with the primary goal being commodity/wealth accumulation to compete/work with capitalist states better, and internationalism being left secondary if being considered at all outside national interests. In other words, it's just capitalist development wearing red most often for geopolitical reasons (like aligning with USSR and being able to nationalize western buildings for instance), not spreading revolution.
I guess, but in present conditions, could Cuba or China or Vietnam or whomever really do that without the United States decrying it as imperialism and using it to justify military escalation?
Would a fundamentally capitalist nation that couldn't exist without and thus heavily depends on commodity production, capitalist trade, wage labor, one that actively advances the interests of capital and expands it, and one that never had proletarian character to begin with (vast majority of AES countries were a result of peasant or class collaborationist anti-colonial revolutions) that wear red while constantly contradicting Marxism with its actions and rhetoric really decide one day to do a completely 180 on it's inherent interests and go all in on proletarian world revolution which seeks to abolish everything it relies so heavily on? If magic was real then maybe.
Besides, if the goal is world revolution, then who gives a shit about what bourgeois governments say when you're essentially declaring a global class war? The mere existence of Soviet Russia had triggered a red scare due to a fear of revolution spreading at home, it's unavoidable if all one needs to do is exist to be decried.