"That's why Hugo is arming."
Hugo's growing arms purchases are disturbing. The 100,000 AK-47s could be smuggled into the US for Chavez's North Korea trained Special Forces or to MS-13 or illegal Mexican groups, etc.
But Chavez didnt stop there. He bought 44 helicopters (including 10 attack Mi-35 which he could use to attack US troops in Colombia.)
Now he's looking for up to 50 MiG-29SMT or Su-27M and 3 submarines to replace the 1980s era German 209/1300s.
Chavez is also trying to get a reserve militia of 2+ million venezuelans.
He's gearing up for a war. Of course if he tried anything, we'd stop him like a fly.
And of course now he's rethinking this whole thing about presidents having limited terms. Guess he needs more time to get everything in gear.
But I agree, I don't think he or any of his little followers, such as Evo Morales who believes he is going to run his country on coca leaves grown by pure indigenous peoples, would last very long against us. However, they could certainly mess up some of the struggling countries around them, such as Colombia. But of course, they're already doing that...