Venezuelan military build up

BBC Caribbean ^ | 11 Aug 2008 | Sir Ronald Sanders

[davidlachnicht]

The bizarre remarks and actions of the Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez continue to concern anyone who is interested in the peace and security of the Caribbean region.

Chavez has recently purchased $4 billion worth of military equipment from Russia, including 24 Sukhoi combat aircraft with missiles, Main battle tanks, transport aircraft, air defence systems and Kalashnikov AK automatic assault rifles.

This latest purchase follows a 2005-2006 agreement with Russia to buy over 50 combat helicopters, 12 Tor-M1state-of-the-art defence anti-aircraft and anti-ballistic missile systems and 100,000 Kalashnikov rifles.

Having purchased all this heavy-duty weaponry, Chavez boasted that his air force could sink the US Fourth Fleet which was recently deployed in the Caribbean reportedly on drug-interdiction duty.

He added that the Sukhoi aircraft has a considerably longer range than the US Lockheed MartinF-16 Fighting Falcons.

And he went on: "Any gringo ship that sails into brown waters (Venezuelan waters) will itself turn brown and go to the bottom, because they'll not get through."

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[davidlachnicht]

The meat of this story is toward the end, and I believe Chavez will impose his military upon Bolivia first (in support of the Bolivar Utopia), then Guyana (surely before this time next year), and lastly full-on FARC support.
(Special note about Guyana: Guyana's population growth is in the negative due to US emigration - Only est. 650,000 people remain in Guyana. >350,000 Guyanese people have already immigrated to the USA! Over 100,000 Guyanese have become United States citizens.)

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Putin’s not the only communist on the move.

[Dallas59]

He just needs any lame excuse. He’ll wait till after the US election to do anything.

[doc1019]

President Bush has got to be saying to himself … only a few more months and all this crap will be someone else’s problem. ;-)

[FFranco]

Won’t be long and we’ll be sending our troops in. We can’t tolerate another Communist state in our hemisphere. Unless Obama is elected. Then we’ll be spreading Communism, both in our hemisphere and the world.

[Dallas59]

That’s what’s scary.

[davidlachnicht]

If there is ANYTHING that should scare the crap out of all of us, it’s an Obama/Chavez alliance.

[HereInTheHeartland]

We need to knock oil prices down hard and fast. We are just fueling these gang bangers like Putin and Chavez with extra cash.

More energy = lower prices hopefully, and less money for Pooty and Chavez to buy dangerous toys.

[sinanju]

I’m not worried. Everything I have read states the Venezuelan military is utterly demoralized and being run by nitwits promoted for their loyalty.

It is a thousand times harder to train and develop the expertise and technical know-how to maintain and operate high-tech weaponry. All this monkey has done is buy some shiny new toys that are probably going to rust in depots.

(By the way, can you post any articles describing Guyana’s depopulation. The place must be ghostly)

[MtnClimber]

If Obambi becomes president I predict a coordinated Russia, North Korea, Iran, Cuba and Venezuela uprising against contrived wrongs done by the rest of the world.

[coalman]

thats the problem,,THE problem is petro-dollars are fueling terrorism by countries and peoples,,pelosi and her band of minions are enabling the very forces that want to destroy us!

[doc1019]

Yep, we are going to be stuck with either a president that thinks diplomacy will work in every case or someone that thinks compromise is acceptable in every case. God help us.

All parts are interchangeable.

[Dallas59]

I worry about the shape of things to come...The US can not become a pacifist nation.

[shield]

I read a prophecy recently....looks like this commie thug will be dropping over dead in the near future...

[sport]

She is not only enableing them, She is hoping that they will destroy us. She and others of her ilk are enabled by the American voter.

The Democrat Party is the single biggest threat to our way of life today.

[doc1019]

Sorry, my friend, I think we are almost there. If Obama is our next president … we are there. The only thing that might buoy us under an Obama regime is our economy, and that will be short term. ;-(

[Dallas59]

This guy is not United States presidential material. Some third world country....maybe.

[DaveTesla]

The spread of communism and the expansion of the Evil Russian empire is on.

The real target is Columbia, simply because Columbia is our
only real ally in the region.
The rest of the countries have or are already falling under the newly planned iron curtain.

Bolivia, Bolivar, Nicaragua, Guyana,
are already in control of the communist useful idiots.

Like Iran Chavez is a Russian useful Idiot for the expansion
of the communist state.

Ronald Regan would roll over in his grave if he knew the
Evil Empire was being resurrected by Putin.

The foremost thing we need to do is open up all off limits
oilfields and drop the price of crude oil.
Lets see how the economic downturn affects the
Russian arms race.


Vald Prince of Magog

[Dan Middleton]

"Any gringo ship that sails into brown waters (Venezuelan waters) will itself turn brown"

What does that even MEAN?