Shortly before taking office in 1990 with an economic plan that devastated the country, Fernando Collor de Mello said he wanted to see, giving three months for the impact of his actions.
According to the speed of 2025, it took just a few hours between his inauguration and his first speech about Brazil to reverse the equation, leaving the left, embodied in federal PTism, indignant and the right, which lives mainly in and its acolytes, perplexed.
The contempt with which Globo reporter Raquel Krähenbühl was treated was eloquent of the real role dedicated to the country in its enormous inventory of priorities. “They [os brasileiros] They need us much more than we need them. In fact, we don’t need them, and the whole world needs us,” he said.
Trump spoke the truth, even if his arrogance suggests an imperialist insecurity, of kicking the weakest while mincing words to address the problem. Panama says so.
At least the American has not yet decided that the Amazon could suffer the same fate as the canal he intends to retake, speaking with abandon in an inauguration speech. All bravado aside, the risk for the Panamanians is real,
In Brazil, none other than Bolsonaro and his friends. The former president was left with the shame of crying at the airport while his wife was not invited.
The genuflection before the one who, and the incredible pairing of facts in the rise and fall of the two populists, with the meteoric election-massive government-coup-defeat sequence making Bolsonaristas sigh for a tropical epilogue similar to the American one, with the return to power.
Against this conspires the reality that Bolsonaro is much more involved with the courts, including being ineligible until 2030. Thinking that Trump will pressure (), Alexandre de Moraes (STF) or the Pope to pardon him is an exercise in imagination.
Still, as the Bolsonaro caravan to a ball in Washington showed, what matters is the cut to the network. In this sense, he pretended to be faster: while Eduardo was making a video call with his father, the influencer published having Trump at the same event. In fact, adding to the ridiculousness.
The political importance of this is zero, but it works for the unwary. Another one who was embarrassed was (Republicans), who still treats Bolsonaro as a boss in his speech — the reality of how to step aside without losing the former president’s electorate is more complex.
The São Paulo governor placed Maga, a symbol of Trumpism, and repeated the Bolsonaro slogan “Great day!” on social network. A few hours later, the man who intends to occupy the Palácio do Planalto saw Trump treating Brazil as a sub-Panama, since we don’t even have a vital channel.
Of course, Trump can still make gestures towards Bolsonarism, as he has done in the past, and for the group’s network logic the problem will be mitigated. He may also change his mind and think there is business being done here. But the current moment is one of embarrassment.
All of this virtualized. The problem is that there is a real left in power, and it will have to deal with Trump in practice. It is no coincidence that Lula was cautious when talking about the American, saying that he has no interest in fighting with the USA.
Obviously, it is a conflict destined to go wrong for Brazil, and Trumpist jokes will be a diplomatic test. With Joe Biden, the relationship was terrible due to the government’s puerile anti-Americanism.
The Democrat’s management never forgave him after having openly supported Lula’s victory, something definitive to dissuade the Army High Command from any idea in the coup-led final months of 2022.
Now the key is in China. So far, Trump is courting a relationship with . If he alienates Brazil, Lula could fall into the lap of Beijing’s mandarin in a way that is undesirable to his diplomacy today, which prefers to see the country as an independent actor in Cold War 2.0.
This year’s rotating presidency is a stage for this, as Xi could either once again use the bloc to his advantage or relegate it to the background if he sees advantages in a more cordial relationship with Trump.
Either way, with Russian Vladimir Putin after the republican’s noisy debut. Lula may be outraged by Trump’s diatribes, but without the geopolitical weight of his allies, he will have difficulty dancing alone.
