Great News – Russia and Iran to help Venezuela go Nuclear!
If you haven’t heard the great news, now Venezuela is interested in nuclear power. Keep in mind, Chavez has promised to only use nuclear power for peaceful means, so nothing to worry about there.
It won’t be long before all the Dictators in the world who desire to wipe us off the map have nuclear weapons… But never fear, our administration has the silver bullet to prevent these nut-bars from obtaining nuclear weapons and detonating them on US soil.
Obama’s solution? The United States needs to reduce their nuclear arsenal (How wonderful). Sounds like excellent ‘Change’ to me.
“The U.S. will take concrete steps. … We will begin the work of reducing our arsenals and stockpiles.” ~ President Obama
The French Merco Press Reports on Iran’s involvement with Venezuela…
Venezuela’s president Hugo Chavez revealed in an interview with the French daily Le Figaro that he has signed an agreement with his Iranian peer Mahmud Ahmadinejad to develop a nuclear program with the help of the Teheran regime.
“We are grateful to President Mahmud Ahmadinejad for the technology transfer and the agreement signed last week to help us develop a nuclear program with Iran”, said Chavez arguing that both countries have the right to develop nuclear energy.
Venezuela is working in a preliminary project for the construction of a “nuclear villa” with the help of Iran, so that “the people of Venezuela in the future can count with this marvellous resource for peaceful purposes”, Chavez was quoted by Le Figaro.
“Iran has a right to develop nuclear energy such as France has and so many other countries, and so can Venezuela”, said Chavez who added he was certain that “Iran is not involved in the manufacturing of nuclear weapons, nor do we want them”
The UK Daily Times reports on Russia’s involvement with Venezuela…
CARACAS: Venezuela is developing nuclear energy in collaboration with Russia, President Chavez said on Sunday.
Russia has also agreed to lend Caracas over $2 billion to purchase tanks and advanced anti-aircraft missiles in deals that show Moscow’s commitment to working closely with Washington-foe President Hugo Chavez. Chavez said on Sunday the purchases agreed upon on a trip to Moscow last week included 92 tanks and an S-300 missile system that can shoot down fighter jets and cruise missiles.
Chavez, who claims the United States could attack Venezuela for its oil reserves, also reiterated that Moscow was helping Venezuela develop nuclear energy but said he had no intention of developing an atomic bomb. “Let me be clear, Venezuela has no plans to invade anybody, or to be aggressive towards anybody,” Chavez said on his weekly television show after announcing the $2.2 billion loan. He did not say how much the new weapons cost.
A major oil exporter, Venezuela’s finances have suffered this year because of lower crude prices. Chavez said Venezuela needed to borrow the money for defence spending to avoid cuts in education and health. In recent years, Venezuela has bought over $4 billion in weapons from Russia including 24 Sukhoi fighter jets. Critics say Venezuela is fueling an arms race in Latin America, but Chavez says he is modernising the military for defensive purposes.
Chavez, who visited Moscow last week, said Venezuela was now buying 92 Russian T-72 tanks along with several types of missiles to build an air defence system. He mentioned the Buk-M2 and S-300 surface-to-air missile systems and the Smerch rocket launcher. The S-300, also known as the SA-20, is an extremely effective anti-aircraft system capable of tracking 100 targets at once. It can be used with missiles with a range of about 200 km and can engage six targets simultaneously. reuters
Do you see a possible return to democracy and liberty within Venezuela? If so, how would you see this unfolding?
I really wish to know that myself, we have low hopes in that for happening, as long as there is oil in Venezuela, Chavez will continue to buy the concience of people, all the high military officers that were agaisnt him were demoted or in jail, only those who pleasantly agree with him are the ones, still in high military rankings, futhermore the president of Election Center is an activist of Chavez movement (as she clearly have stated on TV live), so getting ride of Chavez seems rather difficult. still there are hope on the congressmant, right now most of them are aiding the goverment, but there is a high probability that this will change in fact those who opose to chavez in the congress would be a majority but many were ashamed about was doing that they resigned (not an smart move if you ask me), is that or civil war, or a direct strike from military.
Venezuelans dont want Chavez, He is cheating on elections, those who support him are paid a massive amount of money, Chavez have played with the greed of people, thats the reason he is still there. I hope you guys never experience the situation we are living in.
As for nuclear technology, I dont know all the really smart brains of Venezuela are fleeing to other nations, in hope of leaving in democracy, so I see rather difficult achieve to use nuclear energy in here, as far as I can tell all the privates business, such as electricity, aluminium even oil industries that the goverment took, have undergone to a deterioration of their facilities, and many causalities on their workers, expecially because they select their personal according to their idiology but no their ability to do a certain task. So personally I dont see nuclear energy is going to run well without exploding ourselves.
If we were experts on producing oil, now we have problem producing it, imagine something never done before, in the hand of uneskilled people.
I dont have any grudge against US, I feel thats rather ridicously, maybe is some kind of envy, but we can construct our future, without thinking about others.
But the more I read the more convinced of US military interversionism was unecesarry, regarding to the pearl harbor incident, the japanese did wrong, but you know why they attack US like that, there was an agreement beteween UK, USA; Japan an other countries, about the amount of maritimal fleets each country should have, decided basically by UK and USA, restricting the amount of ships japan and other country could have. the amount ships of USA, UK, were far superior that any others nation at that time, US want to restrict military power of others nation, but they dont give an example, by restricting their military power, in the name of global peace.
more than that what would you attack a civil city when you have other military targets?, it was a bluffing, to win war.
you know how usa introduce to japan when japan was isolated from the rest of the world?
they attacked japan with canons at the lates 18xx thats how japan opened economics rutes with USA iniatially.
anyways, thanks for answering, Im moving from Venezuela I lost my hopes for this country.
Alexy Inciarte MD
Thanks Alexy for your comments…. I find myself sitting the fence many times on foreign policy. Within the conservative camp, their is a libertarian view on foreign policy (non-intervention unless directly attacked) and a ‘mostly’ republican view (neo-conservative) view which is to intervene in other countries affairs to promote democracy around the globe. Of course this interference can be many levels deep, depending on how you define ‘interference’. None the less, I can see from your perspective that the US has interfered much more than necessary and has used it’s war machine too often in promoting democracy around the world.
I find myself usually in the libertarian camp on this, and believe the US interferes too often, but don’t believe it is wise to ignore dictators threatening us and our allies – especially radical Islam bent on jihad. So I guess I am kind of a hybrid of the two as I really don’t have a strong opinion 100% in either direction on the issue, as I’m still deciding in my mind which avenue to write about on this blog… If you were to label me, I would be a limited-intervention individual on foreign policy and have agreements and disagreements on both sides of the conservative coin…
Good luck to you as you make a life outside of Venezuela, and thank you for posting.
Cheers,
Jason
Im a Venezuelan, I see Hugo Chavez as a major tread for our people, he hides on the veil of democracy, while tirany is what lies behind. I disagree some aspects of your posts, Chavez is not trying to whipe out US, USA can vanish Venezuela if they really wanted, I guess Chavez is smart enough to realize that, our technology is light years above yours.
those weapons are to support “la farc” colombian terrorist drug-related group, Chavez is after Colombian Goverment, since they dont support his so called socialism, (personally I think is a capitalism of elites). Chavez has supported those terrorist openly on TV so no wonder he wants to help them right now.
Attack US, thats a common American paranoia, rather than that US have bombed many places around the world due to that fear….
for example:
Japan 200 000 civil deaths on civil cities hiroshima Nagasahi due to pear harbol incident resulting on the death of 2500 soldiers.
Its good to see obama is trying to disarm, sadly the devil Chavez is trying to get in there, I hope US will be the example of the future about peace.
We Venezuelan see the real purporse of it clearly, we have so many years dealing with Chavez. another thing that worries me is the ilegal flow of those weapons.
Thank you Alexy for your perspective. I appreciate you visiting my site.
I can’t remember if Chavez openly stated he wanted to wipe the US off the map, but I know Iran’s ruler has openly stated this. I find it interesting that Chavez would want to partner with such a leader if he didn’t feel the same. Either way, you may indeed be correct in your observation and statement.
I agree with your comment that the US has “bombed many places around the world due to that fear” but would not attribute that to your example regarding the attack on Japan during WW2. This attack was during a world war and was to prevent the loss of US Marine lives towards the end of the conflict, since Japan would not surrender. Japan could have easily surrendered before we bombed Nagasaki and Hiroshima. In my mind they made their choice when they bombed Pearl Harbor and continued to wage war with the US without surrendering.
Regardless, your comments are appreciated coming from a first hand point of view in regards to Chavez. Thank you for posting.
Question: Do you see a possible return to democracy and liberty within Venezuela? If so, how would you see this unfolding?
Cheers,
Jason