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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 994006" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>As a military threat, <a href="http://www.globalfirepower.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff0000">Global Firepower</span></a> lists Venezuela at 47th, well behind the United States who is #1 but GF only measures a total of 55 nations because the rest are considered to have no military capacity to pose any external threat at all. On a purely conventional basis, Venezuela poses absolutely no threat to the United States, they don't even have the military capacity to launch even the smallest direct attack against the US. </p><p></p><p>The only reason Chavez is considered a threat is that he won't play economic ball with the United States and it's interests. He also knows how to talk the talk that fires up the US nationalists which at the very least I find comical. He's done a lot of stupid reactions in governing his country but then since the US was behind the coup in 2002' that tried to depose him, I at least understand his actions in regards to protecting his capacity to govern his nation. </p><p></p><p>And let's be honest here, with Venezuela being a petro power thus making them an economic power who can effect global markets beyond the control of the global central planners, this and this alone is what makes him a threat. The Venezuela aka Chavez threat is because oil is wealth, wealth is power and power is the threat when the central planners don't control that power.</p><p></p><p>Obama IMO is right on with this one just as he is right on ending the Cuban embargo which he should have done in his 1st term. But I think this is all an election ploy to try and win back a <a href="http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/06/08/liberals-threaten-not-to-vote-in-november-over-disappointment-with-obama/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff0000">growing rebellion</span></a> within the ranks of his support base.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 994006, member: 2189"] As a military threat, [URL="http://www.globalfirepower.com/"][COLOR=#ff0000]Global Firepower[/COLOR][/URL] lists Venezuela at 47th, well behind the United States who is #1 but GF only measures a total of 55 nations because the rest are considered to have no military capacity to pose any external threat at all. On a purely conventional basis, Venezuela poses absolutely no threat to the United States, they don't even have the military capacity to launch even the smallest direct attack against the US. The only reason Chavez is considered a threat is that he won't play economic ball with the United States and it's interests. He also knows how to talk the talk that fires up the US nationalists which at the very least I find comical. He's done a lot of stupid reactions in governing his country but then since the US was behind the coup in 2002' that tried to depose him, I at least understand his actions in regards to protecting his capacity to govern his nation. And let's be honest here, with Venezuela being a petro power thus making them an economic power who can effect global markets beyond the control of the global central planners, this and this alone is what makes him a threat. The Venezuela aka Chavez threat is because oil is wealth, wealth is power and power is the threat when the central planners don't control that power. Obama IMO is right on with this one just as he is right on ending the Cuban embargo which he should have done in his 1st term. But I think this is all an election ploy to try and win back a [URL="http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/06/08/liberals-threaten-not-to-vote-in-november-over-disappointment-with-obama/"][COLOR=#ff0000]growing rebellion[/COLOR][/URL] within the ranks of his support base. [/QUOTE]
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