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Posted on 09/20/2006 8:40:52 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Caracas - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced further purchases of Russian weapons, saying his country is to become 'an impregnable fortress.'
Venezuela has ordered Antonov airplanes and 14 gunship helicopters, the nationalist-leftist told the air force academy in a speech Tuesday night in the central city of Maracay.
'If you want peace, prepare for war, and that is what we are doing,' he said, adding that he wanted to significantly raise the level of the entire 'anti-imperialist armed forces.'
'We have to safeguard our national sovereignty against the aggressors of always,' said the president who has had an antagonistic relationship with the United States since he took office in 1999.
Chavez said Russia is to supply Venezuela by year's end with the first of 24 Sukhoi SU-30MK2s, Russia's most sophisticated fighter planes, and 30 Mil Mi-35 assault helicopters that were part of an arms order worth about 1 billion dollars that he placed in July during a visit to Russia.
At that time, the United States urged Russia to back off from weapons deals with Venezuela.
Such an arms purchase exceeds Caracas' defence needs and is 'not helpful in terms of regional stability,' US State Department spokesman Tom Casey argued, but Russia rebuffed the US concerns.
'Nothing and no one, will be able to move against Venezuela,' Chavez said Tuesday night. '... Venezuela will be an economic, social and energy power in this part of the world.'
One bullet strategically placed makes this all go away.
Well, some of it, anyway.
Yeah, like Festung Europa, right?
Another deviant dictator with delusions of grandeur, and we all know where they end up.
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He'll implode soon enough.
Is his alligator mouth overloading his canary bird ass? Venezooland would fall like Grenada. It would capitulate like Argentina did with the Brits with fewer casualties.
Two F/A 18, some F-16s and some noseeums would do the trick.
Who said the Cold War ended?
Russian arms have had very significant field testing in a desert climate and have been found wanting.
I think its time for the United States to institute a 'circle of trust'(ala Meet The Parents). Every ally that recieves US military tech, is banned from dealing with certain countries. Russia should be one of those countries.
What the h*ll is up with every tin-horn dictator in the world? It's like they're on the wrestling shows trying to intimidate us.
I sure wish Milosovec was around to fry a few of these bastards. Thanks alot Bill Clinton and your pro-"Ethnic Albanian" (read Moslem) policy.
The Best-Defended Booby Hatch in South America!
Did he not see the video of Saddam crawling out of his hole?
A couple F-22 Raptors over Venezuela would turn it all into scrap metal.
I wonder if he's as nuts as I think he is and really believes all this baloney or if he's just putting on a brave show for all his Latin neighbors. Venzuela will never be impregnable.
will it be impregnable against a 300 megaton nuke?
No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.
President Ronald Reagan First Inaugural Address,January 20, 1981.
Chavez: I'm sure your country is an impregnable fortress ... they burn just like everything else.
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