On September 11, at the Vibra Theater in SP, the Liberdade Caminhos da Liberdade Forum will bring to the public the participation of Marcos Troyjo, former president of the Bank of Brics and one of the country’s greatest experts in Geopolitics
The scenes of bomber B2 passing over Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin rolled the world as one of the highlights of the meeting that brought together the presidents of the United States and Russia in Alaska in recent days. In geopolitics, everything is symbolism, and in Alaska it was no different. From the old soviet sweatshirt used by Russian chancellor Serguei Lavrov to the squeeze of his hand more than tight from President Trump, going through the very choice of the place of the meeting: Alaska, the territory that Russia sold to the United States in 1867.
On the menu of the meeting, the main course was the redefinition of the rules of the global game. More than discussing sanctions or war in Ukraine, and seem to seek a new arrangement of power, an attempt to reorganize the spheres of influence at a time when the order we know seems to be ruining – as well as the Berlin wall in 1989, giving rise to the world as we know today.
The backdrop of this approach is clear: the rise of China, a convalescent and increasingly bureaucratic European union, the BRICS rebelling against the dollar and little by little by the Chinese. Both Washington and Moscow know that Chinese protagonism has changed the geopolitical balance established in recent decades. When they are on cold soil, Trump and Putin send a message to the world: in the face of the expansion of Beijing’s political tentacles, a pragmatic axis between US and Russia seems more unlikely as it would seem in the 1990s, when the former Soviet union crumbled in small republics and the American Pax prevailed.
History shows that this type of movement is not uncommon: in the 1970s, Henry Kissinger, the American Secretary of State’s “Realpolitik” father – the policy conducted in a pragmatic way, thinking of final goals and less ideology – was responsible for sewing ties between Washington and Beijing, forever altering the logic of the Cold War. The background was the rupture between China and the Soviet Union in the previous decade, which made room for the United States to explore this crack. Kissinger realized the opportunity to get closer to Beijing to weaken Moscow, preparing Richard Nixon’s historic visit in 1972 and the Shanghai statement, who redesigned the global board.
Today, half a century later, we are seeing a movement of the tectonic plates of world geopolitics that can form a new “Himalayan”, worthy of redefining the global order as we know so far. The handshake between Trump and Putin in Alaska may not have the same immediate impact of Nixon’s meeting with Mao in Shanghai, but marks a gesture that will reverberate in the strategy and next steps of Beijing, Brussels and the Middle East. Not coincidentally, this week also took place an emergency meeting among the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the countries of the European Union.
To understand the meanings behind these scenes, and what they say about the future of Brazil, you need to hear who studies these movements closely. On September 11, at the Vibra Theater, in São Paulo, the Liberdade Caminhos da Liberdade Forum will bring to the public the rare opportunity to accompany Marcos Troyjo, former president of Banco dos Brics and one of the country’s greatest experts in geopolitics. Normally, debates of this wingspan are restricted to government domes or multinational councils. The forum, however, opens this access to everyone, allowing the public to understand directly and qualified as the new world that Trump and Putin want to build can affect each of us.
