Venezuela: The center for confrontation between America and the Euro Zone

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India Daily special correspondent Sudhir Chadda writes: After Iraq it is oil rich Venezuela led by Hugo Chavez that has become the center for confrontation between America and the Euro Zone. Chavez is dead against America and Euro Zone needs him to keep the oil balance -- the power symbol in 2005.

But this time the equation is a little different. A new regional and super power coalition of India, China, Russia and Brazil is making a huge difference. Russian President is in the zone to pull Brazil in the coalition and influence on Chavez for mutual support.

While the whole world is focused on America and the Euro zone for the super power challenges, both these powers are looking small when you combine the powers of the new coalition Putin is building with India, China, Russia and Brazil. Add to that Venezuelan oil that supplies America a substantial crude oil, and now you have the actual scenario of confrontation.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is leveraging his country's oil resources to build new geopolitical relationships with key regional powers like Russia, China, India and Brazil. snip

According to think tanks, it is not Iran but Venezuela will be the next epicenter of confrontation for oil supremacy. But this time both Euro zone and America will face a real formidable super power coalition -- the combined resources of India, China, Russia and Brazil.

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And while this alliance is being formed Chimpy is putting all his marbles in Iraq, and playing footsie with thuggish dictators like Musharraf in Pakistan.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

1. That's my boy!

[nine23]

2. Slightly off topic, but...

I suspect this is why India is quietly and respectfully declining US help with the current tsunami disaster. They're doing fine with their own resources, and don't want US involvement on any level unless absolutely necessary.

If I'm correct, it's a real shame. Talk about literally destroying once extant goodwill among nations...

[FloridaPat]

4. Ouch. I had heard about Israel, but not about the US being turned down.

That is almost beyond embarassing. When you're so bad people don't even want you when things are bad.

[achtung_circus]

3. Ah, yes. the world unfolds as "it should".

More context for the neo con wish list elucidated here:

<http://www.tompaine.com/articles/neocons_gone_wild.php>


"Finally, Bush must adapt ''appropriate strategies for contending with China's increasingly fascistic trade and military policies, (Russian President) Vladimir Putin's accelerating authoritarianism at home and aggressiveness toward the former Soviet republics, the worldwide spread of Islamofascism, and the emergence of a number of aggressively anti-American regimes in Latin America,''—which Gaffney does not further identify."

Given that the US's largest energy source is Canada, I hope the neo cons can't do arithmetic. I don't want to be on the receiving end of the hate/bombing. We in Soviet Canuckistan get enough of that for my tastes already.

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5. Call me a hoser, but I'm glad that at least I live in a country...

...where the majority of the population recognized GWB as "the most dangerous man on the planet" - OVER TWO YEARS AGO.

Oh. And THEY HATE US FOR OUR FREEDOMS. Not only is that a hilarious statement in itself for a Canadian to make, but it's a scary fucking place to be as well...

[achtung_circus]

6. OK,

You're a hoser. Got a smoke?

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7. Gitanes. Fresh n' tax free off the reserve. I have my conections.

(Cough. Cough. Hack. Spew...repeat)

[Tinoire]

8. Kick n/t