Cuba and Belarus? Doubt it. Belarus would be covered by proximity most likely, and Cuba wishes it could afford something like that. But Syria and Venezuela are certainly interesting. Syria isn’t that much better off economically than Cuba, but something like the S-500 might be up their alley to remove Israel’s Jericho ballistic missiles from the equation. Venezuela might go after the S-500 to make a point, but it’d be a waste of money as it is a ballistic missile defense system. They’d be more intelligent going after the S-400.
China has shown no interest in BMD since the failure of their earlier programs, maybe they’d be interested? Same goes for India, although they seem content to pursue the domestic route so far.
I doubt Western Europe would be allowed near the S-500. That’d likely result in some components being spirited away to the USA for study.
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