The Soviet Union fought the Cold War in Nicaragua. Now Putin’s Russia is back.

Nicaragua, Managua - At the edge of the volcano there is the American Embassy. The landscape architect has made final changes to Russian mysterious new buildings.

Beyond concrete walls and barbed wire, there are red and blue buildings, well-maintained lawn, antennas and spherical furniture.

In a sense, this is the first time the United States has faced this situation since the end of World War II. What is certain is that during the Cold War we faced the Soviet Union and that the relationship with the post-Soviet era under Putin's control was cold. However, although the nuclear threat has diminished this situation for decades, the recent oligarchy has wealth of oil and gas, but the Soviet Union and Russia are the most important economic or industrial power is not. So now is the time to comprehensive whether to continue the usual geopolitical power struggle for each country to compete for resources and control, threaten the survival, safety, rights of all, or whether it is a new worldwide thing A democratic governance structure will provide better service for us.

Critics often explain President Putin's action as reminiscent of the "Cold War" behavior of the Soviet Union. Most of the fact that the West handles Empire Russia today is not a fact. Under the guidance of Prime Minister Putin, Russia's policy is more like the policy of the emperor administration before the Russian revolution in 1917.

This is mainly because it could lead to an incorrect historical comparison between President Vladimir Putin 's Russia and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, so the growing tension between Russia and the West is called " It is not prudent to express it as ". . The development of these modern tensions necessitates an underestimation of the current economic and military forces of Russia and the exaggeration of domestic political stability and the asymmetry of Russia and Putin in all these fields.

Political influence: When the Soviet Union supports his Sandinist movement, the relationship between Ortega and Russia goes back to the Cold War. After Ortega was reelected in 2006, the relationship between Russia and Nicaragua has deepened. In 2014, Nicaragua opposed the resolution of the United Nations and accused Russia's behavior in the Crimea. Nicaragua also recognizes the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Military relationship: Nicaragua is highly dependent on the security needs of Russia. Between 2012 and 2017, Russian weapons sales accounted for 100% of Nicaragua's purchase of imported weapons. Russia built a GLONASS satellite communications facility in Managua and some US officials suspect it has "double use" capability. In 2015, the Nicaraguan Parliament approved to allow Russian warships to anchor at the port of Nicaragua.