U.S. ban on arms sales to Venezuala

Bush's Alternative nation plan could curb the amount of oil they need from venezuela. Or if they start drilling in Alaska. Venezuela will have no problems, Russia and China can definitely supply Venezuela with what they need. But an arms embargo on Chavez, ******As Golly said we are watching this thread. no political comments and no country bashing of any sort.*********

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Warning to all..anymore political comments and I will close this thread and issue warnings:nono: :nutkick: :nono:

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in practicality, not really that big of a deal since the US government is already blocking arms deals that involve American components to Venezuela. In the end of the day, Bush and the American government is tired of constantly being verbally assaulted by Chavez. This seems to be a statement that "we will not tolerate this anymore". Of course, Chavez's claim of selling f-16s to Iranians is just another attempt to aggitate American government.

apologize to other moderators if this was political.

A news line from qianlong.com website:

查韦斯称委内瑞拉再也不需要购买美国的武器
　 2006-05-19 07:36:20
　　中新网5月18日电 据俄罗斯新闻社报道，正在利比亚进行访问的委内瑞拉总统查韦斯在接受委内瑞拉国家电视台采访时强调称：“我们再也不需要美国的武器。”

　　查韦斯透露，
第一批俄罗斯直升机和3万套AK-103卡拉什尼科夫冲锋枪已经运抵委内瑞拉。他指出，目前委内瑞拉正在积极考虑从俄罗斯采购最新型歼击机问题。

　　据悉，2005年，委内瑞拉与俄罗斯签署了采购10万套卡拉什尼科夫冲锋枪和33架各型直升机的合同，其中首批3架直升机已于今年4月交付委内瑞拉军队使用。

　　查韦斯表示，转从其他国家采购武器将使委内瑞拉在经济、政治和石油上摆脱美国束缚外，获得军事上的自主性。

　　此外查韦斯强调，美国对委内瑞拉的武器禁运目的是让委内瑞拉解除武装，从而控制石油资源。

Steelbird, Could we get a translation of that article? Thank you!

tphuang said:

in practicality, not really that big of a deal since the US government is already blocking arms deals that involve American components to Venezuela. In the end of the day, Bush and the American government is tired of constantly being verbally assaulted by Chavez. This seems to be a statement that "we will not tolerate this anymore". Of course, Chavez's claim of selling f-16s to Iranians is just another attempt to aggitate American government.

apologize to other moderators if this was political.

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What the heck would the Iranians do with them anyway!? The USAF doesn't use the Block 15 anymore. If you ask me, Chavez is definitely going for the Su-35. That's what the paper said, so I'm going with that.

bd popeye said:

Steelbird, Could we get a translation of that article? Thank you!

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Popoye, Here goes the translation:

May 18, according to a Russian report Chavez who is visiting Lybia said to a National TV: "We no longer need US weapons".

Chavez also said that the first lot of Russian helecopter and 30,000 sets of AK-103 have arrived in Velnezuala. Currently Velnezuala is considering buying jet fighters from Russia.

According to news, Velnezuala signed a contract with Russia for 100,000 set of AK-103 and 33 helecopters. The first batch of 3 helecopters have been delivered to Velnezualan Army in April this year.

Chavez said that buying weapons from other countries can break away from US's tie on economy and military.

Beside Chavez also said that US's arm embargo is to force Velnezuala disarmed to get control over oil resource.

Thanks alot steelbird.

I figured that Chavez was juts spouting his usual retoric. Nothing new. He certianly is welcomed to buy arms from whatever country he wants. It's his country and money.

I remember hearing once about how Chavez had a special bullet-proof cactus-fabric shirt for when he goes out with the people, and how he was insisting the U.S was trying to assassinate him. That is pretty much all I know about the guy, other than the other basics.

Anyone know what the Helicopters were?

That sounds pretty paranoid. The U.S. might be ticked off with France, but they're not going to assainate Jaques Shriaqe. Sorry Mods, I did not mean that as a political statement, I will not encourage a political debate.
Anyway heres some confirmation on Chavez's new arms supplier - and its Russia. According to the article, the replacement for the F-16s is going to be a Sukhoi, but it does not reveal the make. But Chavez does say that it will be better than the F-16, but that might be just his regular anti-american rants.