Russia weighs Cuba, Venezuela bases: report

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[Danae]

I would be surprised if he didn’t.

[bunky]

Wolverines!! This sounds like Red Dawn in the making....

[catfish1957]

Chavez should have been killed while we had a chance.

[Danae]

uh yep. On top of that the Obama Administration and those bastards in Congress are beggaring us so even when/if it does happen we won’t have the funds to buy ammo to defend ourselves.

SCARY.

[detective]

Within a few years our great country will be dangerously disarmed with Russian and Chicom nuclear missiles so close they can not be defended against. Our border with Mexico will be undefended and millions of foreigners with overrun our cities. The productive sector of our economy will be destroyed and our country will be so deeply in debt it to the Chicoms it will be hopeless. All our personal savings and possessions will be confiscated for the good of the people. The government will have agreed to commitments promising billions of dollars of Americas wealth be given away to unproductive parasites here in America and to foreign dictatorships. Our constitutional rights and protections will be abolished and a government secret police force will round up those Americans who practice Christianity or who speak out against the government. Leftists will control our schools and our children and grandchildren will be subject to constant brainwashing and be promised rewards if they turn in their reactionary parents and grandparents to the authorities.
Wake up America, our country is being destroyed and no one in Washington is doing anything to stop it.

[FightThePower!]

“Within a few years our great country will be dangerously disarmed with Russian and Chicom nuclear missiles so close they can not be defended against. Our border with Mexico will be undefended and millions of foreigners with overrun our cities. The productive sector of our economy will be destroyed and our country will be so deeply in debt it to the Chicoms it will be hopeless. All our personal savings and possessions will be confiscated for the good of the people. The government will have agreed to commitments promising billions of dollars of Americas wealth be given away to unproductive parasites here in America and to foreign dictatorships. Our constitutional rights and protections will be abolished and a government secret police force will round up those Americans who practice Christianity or who speak out against the government. Leftists will control our schools and our children and grandchildren will be subject to constant brainwashing and be promised rewards if they turn in their reactionary parents and grandparents to the authorities.
Wake up America, our country is being destroyed and no one in Washington is doing anything to stop it.”

All of that is true, but the cause is that we are a debtor nation. We no longer can pay for our defenses. We have to depend on China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Japan and a few other countries to buy our bonds and fund our military and socail spending. Why would they do that? The fact is that over time they will buy less and less. The fall of the USA in inevitable and it will come from within. We are too unwilling to spend more than we earn. Republicans and Democrats are equally at fault.

[topfile]

Russian Bombers in Cuba?

Obama will have NONE of this!

He'll insist they use Florida instead

[detective]

"Obama will have NONE of this! He'll insist they use Florida instead"

Nancy Pelosi will lend them her planes to put bombs on.

[M. Espinola]

Comrades in frozen Russkieland

[Thunder90]

Russia/Soviet/Coldwar2 PING!!!

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[Thunder90]

Who knows??? Russia could also hold IRBM’s and ICBM’s in Venezuela and Cuba. We don’t have anything to exchange for it (No Jupiters in Turkey this time...)

[Thunder90]

Also don’t forget that we also owe Russia approx 50 trillion dollars, and Europe owes hundreds of trillions to the Russians. I even recall seeing us owing money to Iran.

[ETL]

"the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the [20th] century" -Russian leader Vladimir Putin on the collapse of the Soviet Union...
"World democratic opinion has yet to realize the alarming implications of President Vladimir Putin's State of the Union speech on April 25, 2005, in which he said that the collapse of the Soviet Union represented the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.'
http://www.hooverdigest.org/053/beichman.html

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From the Sino-Russian Joint Statement of April 23, 1997:
"The two sides [China and Russia] shall, in the spirit of partnership, strive to promote the multipolarization of the world and the establishment of a new international order."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/HI29Ag01.html
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Russia, China flex muscles in joint war games
Reuters: Aug 17, 2007

CHEBARKUL, Russia (Reuters) - Russia and China staged their biggest joint exercises on Friday but denied this show of military prowess could lead to the formation of a counterweight to NATO.

"Today's exercises are another step towards strengthening the relations between our countries, a step towards strengthening international peace and security, and first and foremost, the security of our peoples," Putin said.

Fighter jets swooped overhead, commandos jumped from helicopters on to rooftops and the boom of artillery shells shook the firing range in Russia's Ural mountains as two of the largest armies in the world were put through their paces.

The exercises take place against a backdrop of mounting rivalry between the West, and Russia and China for influence over Central Asia, a strategic region that has huge oil, gas and mineral resources.

Russia's growing assertiveness is also causing jitters in the West. Putin announced at the firing range that Russia was resuming Soviet-era sorties by its strategic bomber aircraft near NATO airspace.
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-29030120070817?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0
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From the Russian News and Information Agency:
July 27, 2006
"'I am determined to expand relations with Russia,' Chavez, known as an outspoken critic of what he calls the United States' unilateralism, told the Russian leader, adding that his determination stemmed from their shared vision of the global order.":
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060727/51913498.html
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Venezuela Set to Develop Nuclear Power With Russia
September 29, 2008
CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that Russia will help Venezuela develop nuclear energy — a move likely to raise U.S. concerns over increasingly close cooperation between Caracas and Moscow.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,429441,00.html
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Venezuela's Chavez welcomes Russian warships
Nov 25, 2008
LA GUAIRA, Venezuela – Russian warships arrived off Venezuela's coast Tuesday in a show of strength aimed at the United States as Moscow seeks to expand its influence in Latin America. The deployment is the first of its kind in the Caribbean since the Cold War and was timed to coincide with President Dmitry Medvedev's visit to Caracas — the first ever by a Russian president.
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%22Venezuela%27s+Chavez+welcomes+Russian+warships%22&ei=UTF-8&fr=moz2

More Yahoo search results for Russia and Venezuela connections:
http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0geu_X30pZJCJEAfCtXNyoA?p=Russia+Venezuela+bombers+tanks+arms&y=Search&fr=404_news
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Russian nuclear bombers in Cuba?
July 23, 2008

The media has been abuzz today at the prospect of Russian nuclear bombers being stationed in Cuba if the US goes ahead with plans for missile defense bases in Eastern Europe.

The story has riled the US enough that a US general has been wheeled out to tell the world’s press that any Russian attempt to build another nuclear base in Cuba would cross US “red line”.

The story broke earlier this week, when Russian newspaper Izvestia quoted an un-named source from within the Russian military. He told the Russian daily:

“While they are deploying the missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, our strategic bombers will already be landing in Cuba.”

The quote hasn’t been independently confirmed, but the Russian Defense Ministry added fuel to the fire when they refused to comment on the story.

The prospect of Russian nuclear forces being stationed in Cuba - which is, after all, only 90 miles from the US coast - would bring back some rather unpleasant memories for the US of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, where the Soviet Union under Nikita Kruschev launched an audacious and foolhardy bid to station nuclear missiles on the Caribbean island.

http://www.siberianlight.net/2008/07/23/russian-nuclear-bombers-cuba/

[Thunder90]

We also owe Russia trillions.... Europe owes them tremendously more, as the EU bought their oil and natural gas during the energy crisis of 2008 on credit from them.