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How troubling is Russia's $1 Billion contract to sell 30 Sukhoi jet aircraft and 33 helicopters to Venezuala?

The 30 Sukhoi Su-30MK2 fighters are comparable to US F-15Es. These are long range fighters.

Venezuala is just 1,400 miles from Miami.

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not troubling at all -

last week on Fox News, Mr. Cavuto talked about how scary it was that Venezuela was no longer going to sell oil to the US Citgo stations. Venezuela is regularly hyped by the Far Right as a dictator, evil, and their religious leaders have called for his assassination.

given the reactions of this nation over the last 6 years, any nation with a natural resource and poor footing with the Bush Adminisration would be fools not to better arm in expectation of hostilities.

If it's not the US, it'll be US backed insurgents - this being the SOP for American interference in Central/South America.

so no, I think they're reacting to a valid and real threat to their national security.

Not to say the man's a saint, but neither are the people he's arming up against.

RB