i think most of us already know that you cannot blindly apply soviet or chinese socialism to our respective states without considering the underlying reasons for reform and opening up and the rapid industrialisation of the soviet union. you can't just create a sez in fucking malmo and expect to become a socialist paradise in a month, this is obvious.
once a socialist state or multiple pop up in europe or north america, in the near future, the first thing that would happen is, most likely, a complete blockade. the remaining capitalist states in europe or nato if thats still around would either invade you or sink any ships sailing into your ports. any semblance of socialism in the west, especially in the core, would be seen as an existential threat (correctly so, actually). and you dont have any manufacturing capacity at home and definenetly not enough to resist the combined military effort of the west. like, what the fuck do you do once you, as a deindustrialized state with an aging population, have your trade cut off and have to fight a war without any nearby allies? maybe the billions of climate refugees can aid any reindustrialization effort if thats on the table, but thats really not gonna be on the table as intervention would happens as soon as you take control, you just dont have the time.
this is ignoring any russian or chinese interference or an unforseeable change in the global economic system within 10 or 20 years, of course. that could change a lot and would be desirable. but i cant and we cant predict exactly how that would change the equation here, so i dont know how i could consider that in the scenario.
I think the first thing is "get nukes".
But it's just so difficult to do! That's the only reason other sovereign countries don't develop nuclear power programs, not imperialism or anything.
And it's not as though the US would do something stupid like make a public Quizlet for of its nuclear secrets within the last 5 years, and then not change any procedures afterwards. Or willingly allow another nation to steal research and materials.
But the real challenge is having the infrastructure to enrich the uranium. It's not as though there are private corporations that have enrichment sites or something.
I mean, you can't just Google documentation from the US and Soviet nuclear programs. We arrest people for buying too many smoke detectors! Nobody could just... Start enriching in their back garden.
And it's not like there are breeder reactors that you could use to enrich uranium anymore. Those are so dangerous and outdated, light water reactors have surely replaced them all by now!
Could you imagine if there were a bunch of little tiny reactors running on enriched uranium all over the place for some sort of research, I mean where would they even put a reactor for research? A college or something? And they'd just let anyone with a student ID walk in and look at a nuclear reactor? They would never let you just walk into the control room, especially not with a camera. Ridiculous!
What, are they just gonna store enough enriched uranium for a weapons program underneath a football stadium or something? Why would they spend money on that when they could buy a bigger, more expensive football stadium?
I'm so glad this sort of stuff isn't just public information and there aren't like, maps of all the nuclear sites in North America or Europe.
The second thing is to never give up those nukes
or do a belarus and join russia's nuclear umbrella