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Barack and John Should Immediately Be Asked About Russiazuela
Sep 12th, 2008 | 5 responses
President Chavez of Venezuela says Premier Castro of Cuba is his role model. Cuba has long had ties with Russia. In the 60s, we had the Betelgeuse scared out of us during the Cuban Missile Crisis, when Russia began secretly-building missile bases in Cuba, a mere 90 miles offshore USA.
President Kennedy told Russia that any aggression launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere would be reason for full retaliation by the US against Russia.
A negotiation was made, the missile bases were dismantled. Later, it was acknowledged that the US also withdrew certain installations from countries bordering Russia.
This week Putin sent from Russia to Venezuela several planes equipped to carry nuclear weapons. Heretofore, Venezuela had no such capacity.
US diplomatic relations with President Chavez and Putin of Russia have been exceedingly strained, very similar to the strain and testing of timbre going on in the 1960s between the US and Russia.
Here is a map, just to reiterate how close Venezuela is to Cuba, the US, vulnerable Mexico and Central America. Not to mention Guatemala, the Panama Canal and Colombia. *See Bolivia’s stance below.
President Bush? Will you follow In John F. Kennedy’s footsteps? Or shall you remain silent? Is this a crisis in the making? Or will it become so, for any number of reasons, for the next guy to be inaugurated in January 09?
Today, on the anniversary of 9-11, you said publicly, ‘the buildings fell down and heroes rose up.’ Which shall you do now?
And John? Barack? Your strategic takes on this now? Sin BS. Please let us know ASAP.
Addendum:
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – President Hugo Chavez says the U.S. ambassador has 72 hours to leave Venezuela and he’s recalling his ambassador from Washington.
Chavez said he’s asking U.S. Ambassador Patrick Duddy to leave as a means of showing solidarity with *Bolivian President Evo Morales, who expelled Washington’s envoy in La Paz.
“They’re trying to do here what they were doing in Bolivia,” Chavez said. “That’s enough … from you, Yankees,” he said, using an expletive.
Chavez announced the decision during a televised speech, hours after saying his government had detained a group of alleged conspirators in a plot to overthrow him.
Chavez accused the group of current and former military officers of trying to assassinate him and topple the government with support from the United States. He didn’t offer evidence.
U.S. officials have repeatedly denied Chavez’s accusations that Washington has backed plots against him.
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5 Responses to “Barack and John Should Immediately Be Asked About Russiazuela”
Yes, indeed! And what is it that we hope to hear—
1. The Bush/Republican/Neocon line: We live in dangerous times. We are an innocent nation seemingly under attack by multiple forces; international and domestic terrorism and the rise of socialism and communism in Europe and Latin America. We do not interfere with other nations, we do support “democratic” forces in those countries that have not fully come aboard with our hopes and aspirations, the American way…..which means that it necessitates that other countries accept our global hegemony. Though Cuba and Venezuela and Bolivia (also sending their American ambassador packing) have not made news for as long as memory serves for attacking other nations across the globe, still it is surely this, we must fear from them.
2. Is it possible to accept that other nations do not want to be representative nations of American empire? The USA has some 800+ military installations all over the world. While our own people go without healthcare, decent education, food and many suffer of poverty, and a general sense that the government does not represent them– As our budget spirals out of control with military apparatus and ambitions– why be so ethno-religious-cultural and country-centric? Other countries no longer believe in the swaggering capitalistic sword. General Smedley Butler, and I am paraphrasing, said that the American military exists only to protect American interests, those interests are private corporations who may be engaging in unlawful or unfair activities in the countries they function in……………
The USA did not tolerate Russian missiles in Cuba. Why should Russia tolerate American missiles pointed at them from Georgia and Poland. And why, one thinks, would other countries want better weaponry, even “The Bomb”– why else, except to protect itself from the USA, who gobble up smaller countries defenseless countries. True we prefer to do it with our business Reps. first (read economic hitman), but if they insist on independence, then we'll have to play rougher, finally resorting to the military solution.
Yes, of coarse in the name of democracy with a small “d.” Most governments in the world no longer believe in us. We are no longer the “beacon of light.” We have shredded our bill of rights, the constitution (Pres. Bush said, “it's just a piece of paper.”), and increasingly we wish to resolve all disputes with our trump card. That card, is our military and police……….as the Neocons say, “what's the point of having the largest military in the world, if you don't use it.” So use it we must……and in so doing we threaten the whole world with our authoritarian model………We are what is commonly known in the school yard as a BULLY.
I'm sure Sarah Palin's flippant line about going to war with Russia really helped the diplomacy here too.
Just wondering: If ICBM's based in Siberia (or wherever Russia keeps them) can reach the U.S. and destory cities, does it matter whether they're in Venezuela?
That's “destroy” cities.
Dr. Estes, we sent warships to Georgia, Russia sent bombers to Venezuela. Russia neither sold the planes to Venezuela nor gave them away. They were sent there for “training exercises” with our knowledge, and NATO fighters escorted them to Venezuela. Our country has not been kind to S. America (remember Pinochet? and the Bolivian water “privatization” scandal?). There is much animosity, not helped by Bush saber rattling directed at Chavez.
Venezuela is an oil-exporting nation, and much of its oil comes here to the US. Bush may say something but will do nothing. Same with McCain. Since American oil companies profit from selling Venezuelan crude here, don't expect the petroleum party to do squat. Furthermore, we manufacture very little in the USA, but we lead the world in arms sales. We sell weapons to our allies and they buy them. Ditto Russia and her allies. What right do we have to prevent Venezuela from buying weapons from Russia? Like it or not, formerly third world countries now have money and the ability to buy things that we want to be exclusive to us. Venezuela is a democratic country with a beloved leader who happens to dislike us and it's mutual. I hope the “response” of Obama and Biden will be to remind us that they favor a less belligerent foreign policy that could gain us new allies instead of new enemies.
In any case, Chavez is right. American hegemony is over. We won't take action against Venezuela. We won't even stop buying their oil.