He decided that American law should be applied to American territory and Brazilian law should be applied to Brazilian territory. disagree with both things.
in this SheetAmerican law is not automatically applicable in Brazil for the same reason that Chinese law is not. Brazil is a sovereign country.
The reader can answer: Well, but Brazil and are part of the same political culture, they are western countries, adopt the rules of liberal democracy.
This argument has always been fragile, but failed to make any sense in Donald Trump’s second presidential term. From what was seen in the first half of 2025, and until second order, the United States no longer part of the democratic West as we understood it. Hopefully they will come back, preferably having learned something.
And hope that Trump shock helps us understand that what deserves to be defended is not the skin color of those who have created Enlightenment or democracy, but the values that underlie these worldviews.
Anyway, the attempt to impose magnitsky A sanctions is also outrageous for other reasons, besides national sovereignty.
After all, why would the United States have the right to apply their laws to other countries if they no longer apply them to American soil?
Last Wednesday, Magnitsky’s own creator, American deputy Jim McGovern, to Trump’s secretaries of state and treasure saying that the application of sanctions to Moraes is obviously illegal.
According to McGovern, it is “shameful that the Trump administration has imposed sanctions GLOMAG [‘Global Magnitsky’] Contrary to its purpose, undermining the efforts of the Brazilian judiciary to defend democratic institutions and maintain the rule of law. “
American law also clearly prohibits Trump’s tariffs on Brazil.
To impose a tariff, Trump needs to prove that there is an economic or national defense emergency that justifies them. The United States is surplus in its trade with Brazil. And we are only threatening the American national security to arrest Jair for the equivalent of that little opening in the death star that makes the business all explode when Luke Skywalker throws inside.
Imagine what it would be like if we adopted, in Brazil, the same legal elasticity as Trump. We could, for example, fit, Paulo Figueiredo and his accomplices in crimes provided for in the Military Penal Code, such as betrayal (Article 355), favor the enemy (Article 356) or attempt against the sovereignty of Brazil (Article 357). The maximum penalty, in all these cases, would be death.
It would be wrong. The Military Penal Code was not done for this, and trivialize its application would demoralize it, as Trump is demoralizing the magnitsky law.
In addition, keeping Eduardo and Figueiredo in the United States is already a form of Brazilian revenge for tariffs. Did you complain about George Santos? Because we have much worse tramps to send.
It remains to hope that Americans follow Flávio Dino’s council and enforce American law when it is, in fact, legitimate: in the United States.
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