[struwwelpeter]

Probably posted somewhere else under a different title, perhaps this has new details.

[norraad]

All that money we give them for oil had to be drained off somehow.

[taxed2death]

...hmmmm, this would be pretty cool thing to see next month when I'm in Curacao....a little M-29 fly by would be interesting.

[xrp]

I wonder how the poor of Venezuela, Chavez's "people", will benefit from the purchase of these MiG-29s?

[Walkingfeather]

of course who will be flying these 29's for chavez? Does he know planes take pilots?

[HawaiianGecko]

Chavez is becoming more of a headache than he's worth. I think he'll lose his job sometime after our election.

[sukhoi-30mki]

Wow-if the numbers are confirmed,it will be the largest single buy of Mig-29s by a nation after India brought nearly 80 in the late 1980s.Going by the current trend,the variant probably will be the multi-role Mig-29SMT.MIG has been having a quiet revival of sorts with Algeria also showing interest in the Mig-29SMT & India deciding to buy the new generation Mig-29K for the carrier, it is buying from Russia.

[Paradox]

This is not going to make the Colombians very happy at all..

[GalaxieFiveHundred]

MiG-29s, up close and personal.

[Askel5]

Military Deals "Way of Influencing World Power Shifts", Says Putin (6/11/2001)

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[GOP_1900AD]

Interesting. So, with some of the stand off weapons these can carry (including tac nuke ones) this starts to become disturbing. Personally I think it is time to return to gunboat diplomacy and the Monroe Doctrine.

[AmericanVictory]

The vulnerable flank. Reagan did a terrific job in Latin America. Both Bushes have made a mess there and have caved in to the Jimmy Carter interests and relied upon Carter people. That and their so-called energy policy are real blind spots, but the Dems cannot capitalize upon these vulnerabilities because they have been even worse.

[Truth666]

NATO media has declared Putin as the main target (example : after Beslan, they are openly accusing Putin of being a murder of the children.)
So for Russia anything other than declaring NATO the target of a pre-emptive strike would be suicide.

[bear11]

Don't worry.
Jimmy Carter will make sure that his buddy Chavez only uses these for peaceful purposes.

[MonroeDNA]

Another Cuba forming on mainland.

Rockets will follow, then nukes.

[Casloy]

And exactly what purpose do they serve?

[eastforker]

Providing the US with future Targets at a later date. We are eventualy gonna have to do something down there, it can not continue the way it is going.

[piasa]

Here's another article on the same topic as the one I freepmailed you.

[piasa]

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[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

BTTT