Lula sworn in as Brazil president as Bolsonaro flies to US

[herfiehandbag]

17 hours ago, John Drake said:

Yes, I do think that is the determinative factor, as you put it. Completely unrealized, especially on this forum, is the success that China is having in putting together an anti-American coalition around the world, particularly focusing on the Global South. Brazil is a key. That Brazil is now aligning economically and politically with the Communist giant should generate concern. Maybe more concern than what is happening in Ukraine, because at least in Ukraine there is active opposition to one of the BRICS' expansionist aims. Is BRICS becoming more than a convenient acronym to denote investment growth? Is it becoming a political entity to counter the US and Europe? Brazil becoming an enemy of the dollar, the established world order, and already seemingly greenlighting the Chinese invasion of Taiwan is a pretty big deal to me. Just the sort of position Castro would have taken had he been alive, except that Cuba was an insignificant country. Gush over Lula all you want. He's hostile to the US. At least Castro liked baseball.

There is of course the outside possibility that China's "success" in putting together an anti - American coalition in the " global south" is due as much to the fact that a large number of countries (particularly in South and Central America) are fed up with American "power projection" and general interference.

 

Isn't there even discussions on the fringes of US politics, during the initial stages of a presidential election campaign, of the the idea of military action (which would, this being the US, inevitably involve bombing civilian populations) against drug cartels in Mexico?

 

Whatever the Spanish American is for " oh dear, here we go again"!

 

The US utterly destroyed it's credibility in much of Latin America by it's support of neo fascist regimes over the last 50 years. This is possibly the result.

 

[John Drake]

5 hours ago, herfiehandbag said:

There is of course the outside possibility that China's "success" in putting together an anti - American coalition in the " global south" is due as much to the fact that a large number of countries (particularly in South and Central America) are fed up with American "power projection" and general interference.

 

Isn't there even discussions on the fringes of US politics, during the initial stages of a presidential election campaign, of the the idea of military action (which would, this being the US, inevitably involve bombing civilian populations) against drug cartels in Mexico?

 

Whatever the Spanish American is for " oh dear, here we go again"!

 

The US utterly destroyed it's credibility in much of Latin America by it's support of neo fascist regimes over the last 50 years. This is possibly the result.

 

Yes, genocidal Putin and the communist dictator Xi are so much better.

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On 4/16/2023 at 1:12 PM, John Drake said:

Yes, genocidal Putin and the communist dictator Xi are so much better.

No, they're obviously much worse which Lula and others like him conveniently ignore. But the fact is that his personal history provides him with real grounds to resent the USA. The US supported an 1964 coup that installed the military in power for 21 years.