"The Yankee hegemony is finished"

That's what Hugo Chavez said. You know what the bad part is? With the current testicle-free "leadership" in the USA, he's RIGHT. Look for the weak-kneed doves to allow this sort of thing to continue.

So Russia has sent the Peter the Great to Venezuela. Nothing to see here, move along. Nevermind that we've got the Commies sending a nuclear powered destroyer with 20 nuclear weapons and 500 antiaircraft missles to our back yard. Oh, and Admiral Chabanenko, an anti-submarine destroyer. Oh, and a pair of Tu-160 Blackjacks, supersonic nuclear-capable strategic bombers. And a thouand or so other troops.

These, you see, are being deployed for joint naval excercises with Venezela's navy. This is specifically NOT a threat to the USA, and also not a response to the US Navy sending warships into the fray when Russia invaded Georgia. Not a response to NATO bases near Russia, when Russia is giving NATO the finger. No, they are not waving their pee-pees back at us, in response to us waving our pee-pee at them. No, you see, they're conducting joint excercises.

Also not a threat: stationing the Blackjacks in cuba, less than 100 miles from you and me.

No people of the United States of America, Russia is our great friend, our ally, fully peaceful in their intention. Also you need their oil because YOU allowed the environmentalists socialists to prevent us using our own oil, or building refineries. When it comes to that, Russia is going to help Venezuela build refineries, so they won't need us to process their nasty heavy crude. Oh, you didn't know that we're pretty much the only country that processes Venezuela's crude oil? You didn't know that the money you pay to Citgo goes back to Venezuela? What do you think they're going to do, when they don't need to sell their oil to us anymore? You think they won't sell that gas to their marxist neighbors instead of us?

No, there is no problem here. No crisis, no looming cold war. What football teams are playing tonight, again?

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