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And really, if there’s anyone that truly understands socialism and nationalization of companies, it’s Hugo Chavez.

“Hey, Obama has just nationalized nothing more and nothing less than General Motors. Comrade Obama! Fidel, careful or we are going to end up to his right,” Chavez joked on a live television broadcast.

During a decade in government, Chavez has nationalized most of Venezuela’s key economic sectors, including multibillion dollar oil projects, often via joint ventures with the private sector that give the state a 60 percent controlling stake.

And of course it’s obvious that Chavez enjoys the company of HRH The Sun King, Comrade Obama.

Chavez, a vehement critic of the U.S. “empire,” has toned down his rhetoric since Obama took office in January and the two men shook hands during a summit in Trinidad and Tobago in April.

Hell, the headline above is literally the headline that was on the web. You know if the marxists in the media really thought it was a bad headline they would have changed it. That they didn’t shows they agree.

First the Russians, now the Venezuelans. Guess we’ll all be call each other comrade soon.

Appearing on “FOX News Sunday,” Gates said North Korea “probably will” fire the missile, prompting host Chris Wallace to ask: “And there’s nothing we can do about it?”

“No,” Gates answered, adding, “I would say we’re not prepared to do anything about it.”

I guess this answers my question. It’s not that I’m surprised in the least, or maybe I am, but I know I shouldn’t be. Obama Administration has been nothing but consistent on matters of making us look like fools. Somehow, I thought the actual threat to our existence might motivate him to stand up and kick some ass. But now that I think about it, that is not an option for this Obamanation.

And frankly, I’m not sure anything he could do would be better than doing nothing. As I wrote earlier, this whole thing is a powder keg. But I would have suggested at leasing holding cards close to vest. At least pretend like we might do something. Now we’ve ensured the test will go on. We have played chicken and lost.

I’m fairly confident that without our backing neither Japan nor South Korea will do much of anything. Which means, the missile goes up, the missile comes down, and NKorea knows for certain how far thier missile can go. And we learn just how close they are to being able to hit the west coast.

Kim Jong-Il wins the praise and accollades of the rest of the League of Evil Nations, Russia & China gain even more confidence that they, and not America are the super-powers of the world. And Obamanation loses pretty much all negotiating power going forard.

It’s a win for everyone!

I’ve been thinking about the reprecussions of the upcoming North Korean missile launch, and I keep getting that mindsplinter concerning Russia. Obviously China’s reaction is of great concern, and the fact that Japan is feeling very threatened – and who can argue that it wouldnt’ be a wonderful time for China to take Taiwan – because I suspect we’ll have a lot of other things on our mind at that moment.

But what about Russia? They just recently performed some very aggressive moves, first when Obama visited Canada last month , and since with it’s other flybys which have Canada getting rather upset.

Now, I realize this isn’t exactly shocking news either, but I noticed the new slightly more detailed announcement by Russia of the new Artic forces. Then there was Canda’s reaction.

It might seem unrelated, but what happens if that North Korean launch precipitates chaos? China and Russia would be foolish not to take advantage of the distraction. And they’re not foolish. We’re swamped right now what are we going to do if China deals with some of the pesky little pains in the butt that make nations like America scream “Human Rights Abuse?”

And then, once we’re doing it, whether it’s pouting, screaming, or rattling a saber – I can’t imagine Russia isn’t going to do something snotty and agressive.  It’s not about being pessistic – the world looks more and more like an interwoven fuse on a giant powder keg of existential angst.

Maybe it’s not the Arctic that I should be thinking about, Cuba and Venezuala are certainly big issues right now too. That was March 14th, I believe – not exactly ancient news reports.

Archduke Ferdinand wasn’t exactly a household name when a single bullet precipitated a big giant mess. I’m wondering if this stupid missile isn’t the new Archduke.