Chavez Says Venezuela Needs Russia To Protect It From The U.S. - With Video
Chavez shakes hands with Putin’s puppet Medvedev, and embraces Da Munchkin King…make no mistake, Hezbollah in Venezuela will be a major recipient of this deal.
Chavez says he is doing this because he believes Venezuela’s sovereignty is threatened by the United States…
Bullshit, he’s arming Hezbollah Venezuela and other terrorists down there, lying sack of Venezuelan shit.
He’s also just trying to stir shit up, he’s a little puke instigator. You know the kind…
MEIENDORF CASTLE, Russia— Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called on Tuesday for a strategic alliance with Russia to protect the South American country from the United States.
Chavez is expected to reach a number of agreements for purchasing military hardware while in Russia, according to Russian news media reports. One newspaper reported that the deals could be worth up to $2 billion.
“That way we can guarantee Venezuela’s sovereignty, which is now threatened by the United States,” Chavez was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying. The U.S. stopped supplying arms to Venezuela in 2006.
While welcoming Chavez at his castle resort in the Moscow region, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Russian-Venezuelan relations “are one of the key factor of security in the (South American) region.”
Medvedev and Chavez are meeting for the first time since Medvedev became president in May. Chavez also will meet with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Russian military and business leaders, Chavez spokesman Tomas Ramirez said.
Russia’s daily Kommersant reported Tuesday that Chavez is looking to order up to $2 billion worth of Ilyushin jets, diesel-powered submarines, TOR-M1 air defense systems and possibly tanks.
Rosoboronexport, Russia’s state-owned arms trader, declined to comment on potential deals.
“We want peace, but we are forced to strengthen our defense,” Chavez said when asked about the potential deals.
Venezuela, which spent $4 billion on international arms purchases between 2005 and 2007, mostly from Russia and China, has a defense budget of $2.6 billion, according to the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Chavez also wants to discuss the possibility of creating a joint bank, according to Alexis Navarro, Venezuela’s ambassador to Moscow.
In addition, the two sides are expected to discuss three energy deals involving three Russian companies — Gazprom, Lukoil, and TNK-BP — and Venezuela’s state-run oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA, the Kremlin said.
Lukoil is already helping Venezuela quantify heavy crude oil deposits in its Orinoco River basin — one of the world’s largest petroleum deposits. Russia’s Gazprom has two natural gas exploration and production licenses in Venezuela.
Commercial trade between Venezuela and Russia reached $1.1 billion last year, up more than 200 percent from the $517 million in trade during 2006, according to statistics cited by Venezuela’s state-run news agency.
(AP)
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Wouldn’t it be great to wake up one day to news that each one of these puke fucks received a bullet between the eyes as you were sleeping? It would calm the world down a lot…
July 22nd, 2008 at 8:27 amput down the crack pipe you greasey fat midget russia aint gunna save you from a good old fashioned asswhooping
July 22nd, 2008 at 8:32 amcountdown for Hezbollah US
July 22nd, 2008 at 8:37 amRussia save Chavez from the U.S.? How?
July 22nd, 2008 at 8:41 amyeah thats an original tactic. blame the US for your reasons to buy more arms yet Chavez is the only one talking shit all the time. I wish that coup would have worked, they should have just shot his ass
July 22nd, 2008 at 8:42 amwow, in our pond hugo? read a history book, in fact skip to the last chapter, it doesn’t end well for Europeans and their allies in this hemisphere.
July 22nd, 2008 at 12:41 pm