Typical tin pot dictator stuff, with TV stooges singing his praises. Don’t bother excusing Chavez by comparing him with Bush, because I already consider the latter a tyrant of sorts with innocent blood on his hands. No doubt Chavez will do all sorts of things for and to the people of Venezuela–every tyrant does some kind of pandering to keep power while pressing on their necks if necessary. Didn’t Mussolini make the trains run on time?

You also say that what Chavez, “does to” the Venezuelan people is of little import to America. That gives the game away entirely. In fact what Chavez does to the Venezuelans is of no import to Americans, in any case. It is what Chavez is doing FOR the Venezuelans that irks America to the point that its highest ranking officials call him a Hitler, and you call him a thug.

It is more than a little scarry living in these times. I actually believe we are now in more danger of WWIII than ever before. My ignorant leaders have backed themselves into a corner both economicaly and militarily. Unfortunately they often think the only answer in using the military. Instead of ending the new “evil empire” that we have created and saving this country. They somehow believe they can fight their way out of the mess they have gotten us into. It’s reminding me more and more of Germany before WWII. And yes, the “New-York/London/Zionist banking system” is a large part of the problem.

Peace!

Are we to finally see real “Star Wars”, i.e. arm’s race getting into outer space? Once again – with Russia having better capabilities for space delivery in both terms of cost and volume – how smart is that for the US? What possible answer to building military space station – that would be able to contain ABM system being developed by the US now. Tons of “asymmetrical answers”.

Once again – I can understand US desire of 1945 to contain the USSR – with demonstrated capability to win a conventional war with best Western war power of the day (Germany). But the desire to dominate Russia after it’s unilateral withdrawal from the cold war? Starting proxy wars with Russia – by means of Chechnja and Georgia and little “cold war” now by Poland?

And you are right in feeling that way. I share your concerns. The people in the United States whose investments are most threatened by this economic crisis read the tea-leaves about their earlier front man, Bush, and have turned the Presidency over to Rahm Emanuel, a Russia, Iran and Syria hater from way back. President Emanuel won’t have to worry about passport problems after the first nuclear exchange. He’s got a second home eslewhere.

Since I believe that in both Russia and the US there are enough “non-crimes” on the books that EVERY person can be put to jail if political need be (cannabis? prostitution? “intellectual property”? taxes?) – I firmly believe that EVERY person with high enough position if tried carefully for combination of those – can be found guilty. Now – in the US there is even the whole “terrorist” dimension to these capabilities – take anybody and just jail him indefinitely – Putin does not have such an “easy” option as a matter of fact.

And of course I’m very firmly against any reduction to nuclear capabilities of Russia – Russia’s conventional military is much smaller then US alone, not to mention NATO (and even China).

The only outcome of nuclear forces reduction would be a direct aggression against Russia under any pretext – and we’ve seen TONS of them over last 15 years. Even recent proxy war in Georgia shows that US are pretty much ready to start war with Russia. Any reduction of Russian nuclear forces is deadly dangerous to the world peace – and to US people that would be target of remaining nuclear charges, even after the reduction.

So – wars with Iran, Iraq, Mongolia, Venezuela, Cuba, Korea etc. etc. – these kind of fights are not likely to result in extreme unhappiness of US population – provided economics does not go down completely.

But war with Russia? nuclear by definition – provided that Russia keeps it’s retaliation potential in good shape, and – unlike Yeltsin’s rule, when systems were going down without replacement and nothing was done to decrease the efficiency of US ABM system being built – yes – MAYBE under these circumstances, US elite would risk of getting significant damage to half dozen major cities – New-York, Chicago, Washington DC, Los Anglos, Seattle, Orlando, Dallas – well – crazy IMHO, but THEY are as crazy as late Brezhnev’s USSR elite I guess. Notice that the MAJOR reason why people in Russia agree with jailing of Khodarkovsky is because his political agenda included giving away ALL – 100% of Russia nuclear forces to the US/NATO. On top of that he expressed an opinion that 30 million population would be enough for Russia (now it is 150 millions). So – THAT plan did not work out. But US elite is so rigid – they are not capable of reacting, they are not response-able :-)

So – with Putin actively working on not only maintaining, but also enhancing the MAD status – I simply don’t see what are they (US elite) counting on – but after all what Hitler was counting on? Still killed 20 million Russian people…

One thing we should agree on – the USSR/Russian policy of “peacemaking” with the US (as opposed to containing) did not work out at all. I certainly feel less safe now in terms of nuclear war, as opposed to 1985 – and that is bad.

And who arranged this situation – back then and now – same New-York/London/Zionist banking system. Notice, that now as then Russia is less dependent of the above mentioned clique, compared to the US at large.

Now – Russians don’t have any delusion about “winning the war”, but are confident that – “Whoever will come to Russia with a sword, shall die from a sword”. That includes economic aggression as well…