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2020-05-26 Caribbean-Latin America

Venezuela Sends SAMs, Rocket Artillery To Caribbean Outpost As Iranian Tankers Get Closer

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Posted by Woodrow 2020-05-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top
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#1 I needed to wiki this island:

La Orchila is an island and a military base off the coast of Venezuela, north of Caracas. It has numerous beaches, including one where the sand is markedly pink (Arena Rosada).[1][2][3]

There is a presidential retreat on this island, and the residential complex reserved for the military houses consists mainly of elevated houses made of wooden logs. There is also a court for bolas criollas. All the facilities are connected by pathways, mostly unpaved but smooth and clean.[citation needed]

Posted by 3dc 2020-05-26 03:36|| 2020-05-26 03:36|| Front Page Top

#2 In 2018, the Russian military released a plan to deploy supersonic Tupolev Tu-160 strategic bombers to the island. According to Colonel Eduard Rodyukov, a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Military Sciences, in turn, told Nezavisimaya Gazeta that "the arrival of Russia’s Tu-160 strategic bombers to Central America is kind of a signal to Trump to make him realize that abandoning nuclear disarmament treaties will have a boomerang effect."[6]

Posted by 3dc 2020-05-26 03:38|| 2020-05-26 03:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Somebody in Venezuela remembered that, once they conquer you, Americans start dispensing goodies?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-26 03:42|| 2020-05-26 03:42|| Front Page Top

#4 ...Likely we're not going to whack them, as deserved as that may be. On the other hand, we could jam radar and comms and Yankee search the SOB's.

Just to let them know we care.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2020-05-26 04:27|| 2020-05-26 04:27|| Front Page Top

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