US imperialists really want Brazil as their "major non-NATO ally" in the region.
But as long as bourgeois liberals stay in power in Rio, it is unlikely that Brazil will show itself sufficiently servile to imperial commands to get "major non-NATO ally" designation and eligibility to the most sensitive US-sponsored military cooperation programs. Most of these "most sensitive military cooperation programs" consist of shameless and cold-blooded formulations, in extreme detail, of "contingency plans" for the conquest of Latin American and Caribbean countries and the training by instruction and military exercises of local armed forces in these countries ... targeted for imperial conquest ... to reinforce and support savage US imperialist troops and mercenaries as the imperialists conquer.
At this time, Brazil is viewed as too wishy-washy to be any kind of ally of US imperialism. Let's look at recent history. First, in April 2002, Bush phoned Lula and asked for Lula's support to send a "OAS Democratic mission" ... that is, a bunch of savage US troops and mercenaries ... to defend the faltering bourgeois dictatorship that, in April 2002, had overthrown democracy in Venezuela. To his everlasting credit, Lula refused and warned other Latin American governments what the fiend, George W. Bush, was up to. Second, two years later, in Feb. 2004, Bush phoned Lula again and asked for Lula's support for another "OAS Democratic mission" to defend the bourgeois dictatorship that Bush, on February 24, 2004, had installed, with US troops, in Haiti in an imperialist-instigated overthrow of Haitian democracy. Lula this time, like a bourgeois liberal, immediately agreed and sent Brazilian troops to help Bush occupy conquered Haiti. Third, in March 2007, Bush didn't phone, rather he flew to Rio and asked for Lula's propaganda and ideological support for the diversion of 1/3 of the world's corn crop from food to fuel production, deliberately triggering immense famine and hideous inflation of food prices throughout the world. Lula joyfully welcomed Bush's animalistic proposal. Fourth, in June 2009, Lula strongly and boldly demanded, in both words and in deeds, the restoration of democracy in Honduras.
These four historical instances show that Brazil ... perhaps, the most influential country in Latin America ... is kind of wishy-washy. Therefore, neither revolutionaries nor counter-revolutionaries should expect consistent support or consistent opposition from Brazil on anything. When US imperialism attacks "South America," as the US Air Force document expressly contemplates, Brazil could go either way and which ever way it goes may determine the outcome of the struggle.
Although the Colombian dictatorship doesn't enjoy the status or, more correctly, ignominy of a designation as a "major non-NATO ally" of the US imperialists, the Colombian dictatorship, the perfidious dog it is, acts as if it already has the designation. Clearly, the US imperialists have conferred on the Colombian dictatorship limited eligibility to certain military cooperation programs to which NATO allies and major non-NATO allies are otherwise exclusively entitled.
SAM is indubitably one of the key factors in the determination of the outcome of these national and national-liberation struggles.
Shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) are typically guided weapons and are a serious threat to low-flying aircraft, especially helicopters, whether the helicopters are chiefly used for troop-mercenary transport, supply or assault. SAMs, affordable and widely available through a variety of sources, have been used successfully over the past three decades in many armed conflicts. They can be purchased in either the legal or black market, anywhere from a few hundred dollars for older models to upwards of almost a quarter million dollars for newer, more capable SAMs. Twenty-five countries, including the Iran, China, North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, and Russia now produce SAMs. SAMs generally have a target detection range of about 6 miles and an engagement range of about 4 miles. So, they can be real handy in an "engagement"... tactically speaking. To defend against the imperialist build-up in Colombia, the revolutionary forces of Latin America and Caribbean should saturate Latin America and the Caribbean with ... at least ... 50,000 SAMs.
SAM is one of the ways to negate the build-up.
Sam negates the build-up because the build-up is chiefly about transportation, especially air mobility. These 10 US imperialist bases in Colombia and, so far, 10 other ones elsewhere in the region [so, 20 in all] will be used to move savage imperialist troops, even more savage US mercenaries, and their equipment to what the War College delicately calls the "theater." Good ole SAM can stop movement in mid-air between these bases and the "theater." In Iraq, most of the counter-measures attached to aircraft, targeted by SAMs, proved ineffective before the heroic and glorious Iraqi Patriotic Resistance depleted its supply of SAMs and similar equipment during the first four years of intense armed struggle against the imperialists. The possibility of depletion explains why revolutionary forces in Latin America and the Caribbean will need a big supply of SAMs to last much longer than four years.
As for FARC, the legitimate representative of the Colombian people in the current state of belligerency, this organization already has SAMs and it has had them for some time. FARC has SA 7s, 14s, 16s, and 18s made in the former USSR. FARC also has Stingers from the USA and Mistrals from France. Regrettably, FARC doesn't have enough of these things, but FARC is busy making acquisitions. FARC purchased ... at very good prices ... some of its SAs from reactionary bourgeois regimes in Nicaragua, especially the pigsties of Enrique Bolanos and Arnoldo Aleman. Both sold anything to anybody for any price. As FARC grows its cache of SAMs and develops its capabilities with remote-controlled roadside bombs, FARC will show the Colombian dictatorship and vile US imperialists and expansionists what kind of stuff FARC and Latin American revolutionaries, in general, are made of.
Imperialists are trying to get "South America." They intend to use everything they got ... namely, a full spectrum .. to get "South America." To set up "South America" to be gotten, the imperialists need bases.
But these bases must be in countries where reactionary bourgeois regimes are abjectly servile ... in principle, disposition, and behavior ... to imperial wishes.
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