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- world@lemmy.world
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a vocal critic Donald Trump, was reelected Sunday in a result that provides relief to critics of widening U.S. influence in Latin America.
With 100% of the vote counted, Brazil’s electoral court announced that the soon to be 81-year-old Lula had a lead of nearly 4.4 million votes over opponent Flávio Bolsonaro, giving him 51.8% of the total vote. Bolsonaro quickly refused to concede defeat and asked for the election results to be annulled after an evening of chaos at some polling places that followed a last-minute decision to extend voting by two hours.
Bolsonaro is the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, whom Lula defeated to take the presidency in 2022.
Lula’s triumph bucks a regional trend of victories for right-of-center presidential candidates allied with Trump. It also means Latin America’s largest economy, with a GDP of $2.6 trillion per year, will likely continue defying Trump’s demands, despite the pressure of increased tariffs.
It takes special liberal gymnastics to leap over 80% of the dictatorships America is directly arming to land on these half-baked examples.
I have no idea what you are talking about, above poster was posting about fascists always being sore losers. Those are just two relevant examples from Europe that occurred very recently. They are not representative but they do prove a point that fascists are sometimes much less entrenched in power than they want to make everyone believed to be. Also Vucic was hardly “America’s” man, he played the US and Russia both at the same time.
I’m saying that liberals use democracy and fascism selectively. We have direct control over governments we’re directly arming, who are much worse examples, but their kneejerk war boner goes directly toward nations that haven’t already handed over all their natural resources.
Everything is about chipping away Russian aligned governments, ever toward the real goal.
What does the image have to do with your reply?
Coveting the world’s resources is the driving force in American foreign policy. In addition, all pipelines lead to Europe.
Arctic thaw is opening up vast troves of previously untouched natural resources. The Northwest Passage is about to be a reality. This is why Trump wants Canada and Greenland.
The Rand Corporation wrote a whitepaper that basically translates to “how to fuck up Russia and take all their shit”
Giving missiles to Nazis is just a start.
I won’t argue with you on that; but that’s probably true, at least to an extent, with many countries.
Yeah I’m sure there are some pipelines going to Europe, but they’re probably also other pipelines going to other places too.
I’d say it’s making ship transport easier. One still has to drill and dig for mineral resources.
more a year round.
With him I think it’s more ego. Resources that Americans want they’re already buying from Canada, though tariffs are getting in the way. Greenland hasn’t refused military bases, indeed, IIUC, the US had a diminished presence in Greenland until Trump came along.
It’s kind of like Putin: there was probably more intelligent, easier, more diplomatic, less costly, and more peaceful ways for Russia to deal with what it considered problems to it, in or from Ukraine, but Putin, like Trump, is an irredentist: IIUC, he essentially told Tucker Carlson that there is no Ukrainian nation, that it’s actually Russia.
IIUC Zbigniew Brzezinski thought that by luring the former USSR to invade Afghanistan, he could bleed them, and in less than 14 years after the USSR invaded Afghanistan, it broke up—and to this day Afghanistan remains a basket case.
Some historians wonder what would happen if Hitler stopped with Sudetenland, he might have lived well past 56 years of age, like Franco did.
Putin wasn’t looking too bad until 2008, and even then many cut him some slack until 2014.
Thanks to him, Russia is suffering, Ukraine is suffering more, Ukrainian nationalism is greater, NATO has gotten bigger, the US military-industrial-complex is probably richer, and Putin is even more entrenched. Next year, he will have outlived Stalin.
So you’re saying those who resist Russia’s invasion and occupation of Ukraine are Nazis?
“Liberals”, “the West” or"much worse examples" are all failing the point I was making before. I was mentioning that in Europe two authoritarians with fascist tendencies conceded to lost elections, after having failed to secure a majority even with underhanded attempts of influencing the outcome. Are you saying that this was not the case or that was not what they were?
But then, the real problem for you appears to be none of that but rather that those autocrats were aligned with Russia, right? Even though that is in the case of Vucic a bit of an overstatement, he played both sides really.