#1 2008-09-26 12:17:28
With our elections, our economy, and our stolen Japanese gameshows, Russia's been busy:
Russia will loan Venezuela $1 billion for arms purchases and military development, a Kremlin spokesman said Friday, the second day of a visit here by President Hugo Chávez aimed at tightening a relationship that has caused increasing discomfort in the West.
Mr. Chávez , who is on his second visit to Russia in two months, met with Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin on Thursday, and on Friday traveled to the southern city of Orenburg near the border with Kazakhstan to meet with President Dmitri A. Medvedev.
A Kremlin statement released Thursday night said Mr. Putin and Mr. Chávez had spoken on enhancing economic cooperation and trade in commercial goods as well as military technologies... (read more)
Those technologies have already been stated to include nuclear power plants. I'm vaguely aware that Venezuela has some border conflicts with drug traffickers and other rebel groups, but a billion dollars to fight WHAT exactly? And is giving them nuclear tech really the best idea, especially from Russia? Did we really need another Bay of Pigs?
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#2 2008-09-26 12:22:47
It's to buy shiny new fighter jets that line the pockets of Russian oligarchs and put smiles on the faces of future would-be Generalissimos in hopes it keeps them out of the coup queue. They wouldn't last 5 minutes against American, Chinese, Indian, or Russian airforce opponents (they are the export models after all.)
As for the nukes, yeah it's a bad idea, but they haven't the infrastructure to support it so its just a means to a kick-back, and a scary thing to wave at the US. Both are about as useful as a rolled up sock in the pants for actual fucking.
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#3 2008-09-26 14:14:30
pALEPHx wrote:
Did we really need another Bay of Pigs?
We have already been there and done that with Venezuela. That's how we ended up with Chavez. He coalesced his power around our failed CIA sponsored coup to prevent the government from rewriting the contracts with our oil companies.
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#4 2008-09-26 14:18:58
I think every nation needs a fat stockpile of nukes.
Then a Dune-Great-Convention style mutual treaty, where if one nation ever uses a nuke against anyone else, then all the other nations completely annihilate the aggressor.
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#5 2008-09-26 14:30:01
Yes, because when nukes are outlawed only outlaws will have nukes.
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