Posted on 09/12/2009 4:02:08 PM PDT by traumer
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez says two Russian bombers have arrived in the country to carry out training flights.
The Russian Air Force said the bombers would be based in Venezuela for several days and fly over neutral waters.
Earlier this week Russia confirmed that it would send a Navy squadron and long- range patrol planes for joint exercises with Venezuela in November.
Mr Chavez has developed close relations with Moscow, including the purchase of Russian arms and co-operation on oil.
Hugo Chavez announced that two Tu-160 bombers would carry out manoeuvres, saying that it was part of a move towards a "multi-polar world".
"I'm going to fly one of those beasts," he joked.
"The Yankee hegemony is finished," he added.
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“The Yankee hegemony is finished,” he added.
And our Flap-Eared Communist says...?
Swell. I’m having flashbacks to October 1962.
Except this time, there won’t be any confrontation by the Whitehouse.
The reds are having a field day in Latin America.
Perhaps this may become an OBammy "Jimmy Carter" moment...
Let’s just call them what they really are:
SOVIET BOMBERS
1. Imported an inexplicably large # of AK’s
2. Imported a large AK factory
3. Imported SA-24 AA MANPADS missiles (they’re quite good)
4. 15k Cuban advisers there
5. Lots of other stuff
6. now this
The action of Reagan in GRENADA of stopping the military airfield being built by Cuba for being used by Russian aircraft was a prudent move, and it neutralized complementary Russian, Eastern Bloc, Cuban initiatives in Nicaragua at the same time. The current issue of Russian Air and Naval forces in Venezuela expands the issues further.
The Obama administrations’ support for Cuban, Venezuelan initiatives against Honduras, a Constitutional Republic with one legislative body, does not bode well for common sense or the real agenda of this administration.
And our Flap-Eared Communist says...?
"The Yankee hegemony is finished." (Until I and all the other liberals get voted out of office.)
Me too. This time though, Obama will send up C130 tankers to refuel the Russian bombers.
And the Russian hegemony has just begun.
“Prepare three envelopes.”
Carter gave away the panama canal. What’s obama gonna give away? Alaska?
I’m beginning to worry about Colombia...
Spreading things a little thin. The Russians only have 16 of these.
meanwhile Obambi is up in Minnesota on a vanity validation from the liberal freaks in that State...
What are they capable of carrying??
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