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David Difuntorum's avatar

I knew my country constantly meddled with the internal affairs of South American countries but I didn’t know they would do so this recently. I’m American and I’m appalled. Lula, Brazil and all the other countries we’ve bullied deserve to live their own lives and their own ways.

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Rose Dandaro's avatar

I am Brazilian by birth, and I grew up under the military dictatorship coup that USA imposed on Brazil and last 22years! I saw many lives destroyed and families ripped apart due to the dictatorship regime. Our country was devastated by cruelty, fear and ignorance of the right wing and corrupt greedy that put Brazil in a social down spiral and retrograde in technological and cultural advancements.

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David Difuntorum's avatar

I didn’t know. I didn’t understand; the propaganda was too effective.

You and your people didn’t deserve that cruelty, violence and abuse. I’m ashamed of what we did. I’m so sorry.

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Zachary Guadamour's avatar

Bravo for Lula da Silva. Enough has all ready been said about the All American Dumb Fuck~

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Robert Billyard's avatar

Thanks , so much Ben for this hard edge factual reporting at a time needed most.

Trump makes the most fundamental of errors. Where he wants to be influential he so effectively and obsessively undermines his own credibility and disgraces America on the world stage. His lies and desperation are so utterly transparent.

Trump too quickly forgets that he speaks for only 4% of the world's population.

BRICS already represents the majority of the world's population and it is inclusive, where he still lives the fantasy of a unipolar world.

Tragically, the US made the decision 70 years ago it could dominate the world through economic chicanery and militarism; but in the end strong planned economies are the final arbiters of world domination, especially when the likes of China has 4x the US population and must scale its economy accordingly, as must other countries.

Every time he opens his mouth he implicitly denies that the vast majority of the world's population have a right to self determination and right to live in peace.

After 500 years of Western imperialism, wars, violence and lawlessness are no longer affordable and a new world order centered on planetary survival is essential.

Hopefully, with time and healing, in a decade or so, the US will take its place working in cooperation with others, and as a member of BRICS.

Revanchist spite can never constitute a foreign policy.

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Zachary Guadamour's avatar

You nailed this perfectly.

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charles leone's avatar

Trump, the con man, is desperate for some kind of tangible evidence that he is winning something for Americans.

Yet, while the U.S. economy is poised to dramatically worsen in every economic indicator e.g. inflation, unemployment (unless you're a robot) etc. etc. Trump, like Netanyahu, needs the Endless Wars to distract Americans from their suffering as well as the corruption of his inner circle cronies and his Epstein Billionaire Club.

Since day 1, Trumps America has lost the respect and trust of most foreign leaders with the exception of the British, French, Germans, Zelensky, Netanyahu who have lined up to kiss his ass like his MAGA cult followers.

His latest 50-day ultimatum to Russia to stop the fighting assumes that the Russian leadership did not notice the 12-day ceasefire he brokered between Iran and Israel was violated in 3 days.

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

If the US government is afraid of BRICS, then BRICS must be on the right track. De-dollarization is coming whether Trump & co. want it to happen or not. Making enemies with the BRICS countries and wannabes isn't going to stop the inevitable. But try telling that to the toddler-in-chief! He'll just throw another temper tantrum on social media. How embarrassing.

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Marcos Paulo Candeloro's avatar

The BRICS are a scarecrow. It's a conjunction with conflicting interests waiting for the powder barrel explodes

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Chris's avatar

For human fools

Vengeance rules

Power sits resplendent in its payback tools.

While claiming to follow the light.

Darkness is secured through pain, loss, and fright

obscuring the true Genesis of societal offenses.

Cutting lives off at the knees

Lest we see the beginnings and understand

The ones we choose to punish are the ones to whom we should have been lending a hand

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Bob marsden's avatar

Good Reporting.

"Lula: “I’m not obligated to buy dollars to conduct trade with Venezuela, Bolivia, Chile, Sweden, the European Union, or China. We can trade in our own currencies”."

There is a rumour that Lula blocked Venezuela from joining BRICS+. What is the Geopolitical Economics of this? Perhaps Pepe Escobar might know about it.

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Springseep's avatar

Trump using the word "degenerate". That's funny!

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