Posted on 09/15/2009 5:42:04 PM PDT by Kaslin
Security: When a tropical thug vows to go nuclear, he's easy to dismiss as a blowhard. But Hugo Chavez's menacing plans are growing more specific and call for a stronger U.S. response.
Given his shaky finances, it likely means they're gifts. In return, he's undermining Russia's foe, western-aligned Georgia, by recognizing two breakaway enclaves — Abkhazia and South Ossetia. He can be expected to do whatever other favors Russia asks.
He's also giving Russia access to $1 billion in Orinoco energy projects recently confiscated from western oil companies.
Worse still, he announced that his oil-rich nation would take the nuclear path as Iran has. "We're going to develop nuclear energy with peaceful purposes," Chavez said, echoing the mullah regime.
"We're not going to make an atomic bomb, so don't bother us like with Iran," he added, making clear he knows what Iran's true nuclear intentions are, despite the mullahs' repeated denials.
Clearly, Chavez is a buffoon. But he's smart enough to know that if he can become Russia's puppet with financial resources, technology and geopolitical ambitions, he too can threaten the U.S. "empire." This paints an extraordinarily hostile picture of a regime willing to align with any tyranny for the sake of challenging the U.S.
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In a few months Obama’s administration will be signing contracts to sell military hardware to Chavez.
The last man to stop a Russian attempt to control a satellite country in the Western Hemisphere was Kennedy.
Obama evidently will stay silent while it happens. This President will cause a lot of our soldiers to eventially give their lives to put things right again.
Venezuela could be a good launching pad for an EMP attack over the central USA.
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