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You can call Joe Biden a lot of things: loudmouth, loose cannon, plagiarizer. Now add prescient to the list. CNN reported today that Russia\u2019s Interfax news agency has announced its interest in using Cuban airfields during patrol missions of its strategic bombers. Just as Biden predicted during the campaign at a speech in Seattle, we may be seeing the \u201cmajor international crisis\u201d that he expected to test the fortitude of our new Commander-in-Appeasement, Barack Obama.<\/p>\n
“There are four or five airfields in Cuba with 4,000-meter-long runways, which absolutely suit us,” Maj. Gen. Anatoly Zhikharev told Interfax.<\/p>\n
Zhikharev, who is the chief of staff of the Russian<\/a> Air Force’s long-range aviation, said, “If the two chiefs of state display such a political will, we are ready to fly there.”<\/p>\n Hopefully Barack will have fulfilled his promise of closing Guantanamo by the time the Russians arrive\u2014the base will make suitable quarters for the Cossacks, whom Barack will, no doubt, eagerly welcome in his new global community.<\/p>\n \u201cMark my words, it will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy,\u201d Biden said back in October. \u201cThe world is looking. We\u2019re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here . . . we\u2019re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.\u201d<\/p>\n So here we have it. As so often happens, history is repeating itself, and we\u2019re going to soon see if our new prez has the gumption to go nose-to-nose with Vladimir Putin, who has been busy rebuilding the Soviet empire by slapping down Chechen rebels and invading Georgia while Obama has been tilting at windmills. Presumably, Putin won\u2019t agree to a game of H-O-R-S-E to negotiate matters, and the silk-talking Obama will have to finally use some tough rhetoric to conciliate the potentially disastrous engagement. Of course, we can always use Hillary, our new Secretary of State, as the point man. We\u2019ll surely get a tough stance from the woman who didn\u2019t have the balls to call out her husband when he was getting hummers in the Oval Office. God forbid, we may even find ourselves wishing for the good ol\u2019 days when \u201cW\u201d was running the ranch.<\/p>\n But wait\u2026it gets better. Zhikharev also told Interfax that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has offered a military airfield on La Orchila island as a temporary base for Russian strategic bombers.<\/p>\n “If a relevant political decision is made, this is possible,” he said, according to Interfax. Zhikharev said he visited La Orchila in 2008 and can confirm that with minor reconstruction, the airfield owned by a local naval base can accept fully-loaded Russian strategic bombers.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s get Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon on that one, Mr. President. Penn\u2019s jump shot is weak, and Sarandon is iffy with her back to the basket, but we know they can both go to their left. The fun is about to begin\u2026I\u2019ll take Putin laying the points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 14, 2009 You can call Joe Biden a lot of things: loudmouth, loose cannon, plagiarizer. Now add prescient to the list. CNN reported today that Russia\u2019s Interfax news agency has announced its interest in using Cuban airfields during patrol missions of its strategic bombers. Just as Biden predicted during the campaign at a … Continue reading We’ll Soon See if Barack Goes BRRR–AAA–CCCKKKK!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[184,180,61,183,185,186,181,177,182,189,188,179,190,187,191,178],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}