Cuban missile crisis II?
From Novosti:
"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has proposed to Russia using a Venezuelan island for temporary hosting of Russian long-range aviation, a top-ranking Russian Air Force official said Saturday.
There is such a proposal on the part of the Venezuelan president. Chavez proposed to us a whole island with an airfield that we can use for temporary basing of strategic bombers," said Maj.-Gen. Anatoly Zhikharev, the chief of the long-range aviation staff".
I noted the presence of TU-160 Blackjacks in Venezuela a while back. Perhaps unexpectedly, there has never been a permanent Russian military presence in Cuba, although that is on the tables too.
Should be an early test for the mettle of Obama and Clinton, I would think.
There is such a proposal on the part of the Venezuelan president. Chavez proposed to us a whole island with an airfield that we can use for temporary basing of strategic bombers," said Maj.-Gen. Anatoly Zhikharev, the chief of the long-range aviation staff".
I noted the presence of TU-160 Blackjacks in Venezuela a while back. Perhaps unexpectedly, there has never been a permanent Russian military presence in Cuba, although that is on the tables too.
Should be an early test for the mettle of Obama and Clinton, I would think.
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Na, it's Ken Livingstone's Venezuelan bases that really scare.
Good point. They could have bored pretty well anyone into submission.
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