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- ColonelJessup, on 03/14/2009, -20/+67Yay! Now the rest of the world likes us SOOOOOO much that they are more than happy to park their nukes 100 miles from America!
- rpgmakr, on 03/15/2009, -4/+43Since this is the same that the US is doing around Russia I think it's fair game.
This fair game is going to kill us all. - BabyWookie, on 03/14/2009, -14/+51I am against Russia having military bases in the Western Hemisphere, just as I am against the US having theirs in the Eastern Hemisphere. Countries should stay the hell out of others' neighborhoods. Still, it's the US who has been the provocateur here, expanding NATO to Russian borders and opening dozens of new bases.
- whiteboy, on 03/15/2009, -5/+38I just spit food all over my monitor reading these comments.
- BabyWookie, on 03/15/2009, -12/+38It's a breitbart.com submission, so a certain level of "Republican Space Ranger" type of mental retardation is to be expected.
- inactive, on 03/15/2009, -3/+28Living in fear must either be great, or ***** tragic. Either way, a lot of people seem to choose it.
- boostviews, on 03/14/2009, -26/+49GREAT! Cuban missile crisis with Obama in office!?
- hokie47, on 03/16/2009, -1/+23I live in Florida and I could careless. Look we are all ***** if we start launching ICBMs anyway. What is the difference of being alive half hour longer? Granted a half hour would give me some more time to roll one massive fatty and sit on my roof top to watch the fireworks. Damn, on 2nd thought that sounds a lot better. Stay the ***** out of Cuba Russia.
- Mattwdj, on 03/16/2009, -6/+26The wingnuts are out in full force. Look at the first 20 comments.
- Wreckage, on 03/16/2009, -6/+25Hello? Russia? It's 1962, they want their cold war back....
- midbc, on 03/16/2009, -0/+17Cold War part Deux
- ptFoe, on 03/16/2009, -6/+23settle down you nut jobs, this is Venezuela, just making their economy more sound proof, and Chavez being an attention whore.
Currently vast proportions of their oil is exported to the USA.
Since the USA economy is on the brink of collapse they need to make sure they can sell their oil to Russia. - Trick07, on 03/14/2009, -26/+42Why are they doing this? Obama is in office. He is nice.
- BabyWookie, on 03/15/2009, -5/+21You conservatives just love to live in fear, don't you?
- inactive, on 03/16/2009, -0/+16The U.S rattles the sabre, russia rattles it back, move along folks nothing to see here
- lilamae, on 03/14/2009, -3/+18Is it too late to start digging more bomb shelters?
- BabyWookie, on 03/15/2009, -7/+20You think that some body had regard for us, while we were led by a border-line retarded neocon who talked to Jesus?
- whatthefu, on 03/14/2009, -4/+17That's what kind of happens when you start marking territory close to their country with bases. Did you honestly expect Russia to just sit and take it?
- snockhockster, on 03/16/2009, -1/+14Do you have any idea how ***** insane you sound?
Let's go further down this rabbit hole though. Who is blackmailing him over his birth certificate and why? - angryfirelord, on 03/16/2009, -2/+14And then they'll be telling us that the Monroe Doctrine was a good thing!
Seriously guys, if Russia wants to pay more money for maintaining more bases, then that's their problem. If Venezuela & Cuba wants Russia there, then they can deal with Russia breathing down their neck. What do you want Obama to do, bomb Venezuela & Cuba? No country is really that foolish enough to start a nuclear war since it would mean the end of them. In fact, we could have avoided the first Cuban missile crisis if we weren't so interventionist in the first place. - spiritflare1, on 03/16/2009, -3/+15it's purely political. Notice the language "if the senior leadership chooses...". US generals, Russian Generals have been making threats like this since the start of the cold war, depending on the political climate and dynamics. Right now Russia feels pretty small, with economic issues, the US AntiMissile Defense system, opening former Soviet Eastern Bloc countries into NATO membership. What do you expect them to do? If it were the US Secretary of State and the Russian equivalent saying this, it would be different. At the junior leadership level, talk is cheap.
- Harvester1, on 03/14/2009, -5/+16They wouldn't have dared suggest this before inauguration day this year. Although I disagreed with Pres. Bush about the bailouts, a two-state solution for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the growth of government that he fostered, he was, as 7papa7 said, strong on defense and the rest of the world knew it.
- BabyWookie, on 03/15/2009, -4/+15LOL. Really? Let's see... they invaded (after being provoked) the neocons' favorite little pet country of Georgia and sent a nuclear-armed flotilla into the Western Hemisphere, all under Bush's watch. Yes, it's all Obama's fault!
- jayjayjoni, on 03/16/2009, -1/+11We have bases with nuclear capabilities in our Eastern European allies, which is near Russia. Plus we aren't that far off from Cuba and Venezuela. It's just more fair if they were to be allowed to have nukes near us.
Don't worry, Obama is in office. I'm less worried about his foreign policy than Bush's. He probably agreed to this. - jamesartre, on 03/14/2009, -9/+20Looks like we'll be able to pull ourselves out of the Recession/Depression we're in after all! Seeing how it is that the MIC will now be kicking it into overdrive with defense spending, and the creation of jobs and all the ancillary jobs that will come with it. If you haven't seen this explosive video about America and its wars, then go here now and watch (Get comfortable and get your popcorn, it's an hour and a half long) -- http://jamesartre.com/?p=330
James
PS: Do you not think it Deja Vu, that Ronald Reagan took Russia down while they were embroiled in Afghanistan, and since they couldn't support the vast military overhead it took to run the war there, while at the same time trying to outspend us in the height of the cold war, they collapsed? Will history repeat itself in America? We will soon find out, I'm afraid. - asskicker32, on 03/16/2009, -2/+13Uh, Russia doesnt need to import oil.
http://middleeast.about.com/od/oilenergy/a/me09060 ... - lilamae, on 03/14/2009, -19/+30And we know that Obama is no JFK. . .
- NorrisOBE, on 03/16/2009, -3/+13Oh, another bunch of Obama-bashing comments!
- BabyWookie, on 03/15/2009, -6/+15If by "we", you mean "the conservatives", then I have to say that, you always look pretty ***** stupid, as once again demonstrated in this comment thread.
- Amazetbm, on 03/16/2009, -0/+9Dude, Russia is an oil exporter. They don't need Vemezuela's oil. It's heavy sour crude, not the easiest to refine.
- test5477, on 03/16/2009, -3/+11why do people revert to 1960s Soviet views of Russia? They are not the same and neither are we.
- asskicker32, on 03/16/2009, -0/+8Which ones? The ones in Germany? Bulgaria? Afghanistan? Uzbekistan? Kyrgystan? Korea? Japan? Georgia?
Pretty ***** close. - teamr, on 03/16/2009, -2/+10http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090315/ap_on_re_la_am ...
CARACAS, Venezuela – President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that Russian bombers would be welcome in Venezuela, but the socialist leader denied that his country would offer Moscow its territory for a military base.
Burried as inaccurate. Seriously, I don't mind the Obama bashing. To each his own. But at least post real stories from reputable sites
Even if you DO read this story, all the Obama bashers seem to gloss over this little detail:
"The previous US administration of George W. Bush officially shrugged off the Russian aviation and naval moves in Latin America, characterizing them as more for show than anything representing a military worry for the United States."
So how did this start with Obama when it's the same situation it was when Bush was in office? - Troy64, on 03/16/2009, -2/+10I guess they didn't like Hilary's reset button. Should of sent them DVDs instead.
- MasterOfL33t, on 03/16/2009, -0/+8All the more reason to lift the Cuban embargo, right?
- BassMastr, on 03/15/2009, -3/+11Haven't we already fought this battle once?
- barc0001, on 03/16/2009, -2/+9Well, DUH! He's still alive.
- Lionhart, on 03/16/2009, -1/+8How many miles are our bases from Russia?
- inactive, on 03/15/2009, -9/+16Alright Chewbacca, you bring up the Czechs and Ukrainians? Wrong area, so it tells me that you lack basic map skills. The Baltic states did ask for NATO forces to come into their countries. If you are too lazy to look it up, I will not help you.
To compare our government to the Russian KGB/Mob run government is real original. Did your professors teach you that? Or maybe Mommy and Daddy taught you to hate your country while you all listened to Neil Young together.
See what I did there? I assumed that you are just some brain washed little lefty, still living with your parents. How is it living on the Dole? Does mommy still crease your undies for you?
My Avatar pic shows that I respect a Man that was a great thinker. Not like the puppet like the one we have now.
You are the one that is myopic in thought my dear, not me. - 1longtime, on 03/16/2009, -3/+10I think Obama is more than capable of blowing ***** up.
...he just might think beforehand. - jamesartre, on 03/14/2009, -5/+12This is definitely not a time for OJT! Don't you know his and everyone else's asses in Washington puckered-up as tight as a 55 gallon drum lid when they saw this from the NSA and CIA at morning coffee?
- geoboy, on 03/16/2009, -0/+7And nuclear warheads on a plane != snakes on a plane.
- inactive, on 03/16/2009, -1/+8The move is political. From a South American perspective many people actually view The United States as the greatest external threat to South America. Just do a little research on how the United States created Panama or all the dirty wars the United States participated in the past 100 years in Central and South America.
Also a Brazilian and a Canadanian are just as much Americans as people from the United States are. - jamesartre, on 03/14/2009, -10/+16Great observation. Could it be that Obama is "there man" they've tried to get on the inside all along? After all, they warned us many years ago they would take us down without firing a single shot.
- workaround4u, on 03/14/2009, -3/+9I hear ya. It all makes my head hurt.
- inactive, on 03/16/2009, -1/+7someone get that man a map and a clue please
- inactive, on 03/15/2009, -0/+6No, this fair game will lead to a perpetual stand off.
- inactive, on 03/16/2009, -3/+9I don't see what all the fuss is about? They're just doing what we are doing. Sometimes I wish we could go back to being just allies, like we were during WWII.
- Rtibbitts07, on 03/16/2009, -3/+9Don't the Russian Airforce pilots log, on average, like 10-15 flight hours per year do to lack of funding? So they fly to Cuba, wait a year for the next bunch of money, then fly back?
I'm betting this is just politicians talking out of their asses. According to almost all sources, the Russian Airforce is basically a joke now. - pgouy, on 03/16/2009, -0/+5With shinny red alert buttons and AJAX-ready nukes its both prettier AND faster !
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