The offensive of and his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, about the high command of the US Armed Forces, in order to demonstrate that the White House Autocrat’s Fachistas’ pretensions cannot be ignored.
The bizarre and often anarchic character of Trump’s interventions sometimes leads to evaluations that it would all be a large theater moved to bravado and inconsequential threats. It is a mistake.
If Chavez launched in Venezuela what he called (leftist populist regime, enhanced by his successor Nicolás Maduro), Trump strives in the construction of 21st century fascism, which does not repeat exactly the reference of the 20th century, but absorbs and holds the lines of strength.
We are facing another unfolding of the fabric, which has given the world monstrosities such as Hitler, Mussolini, Franco and Salazar, as well as our Latin American tiranets, all supported by one.
The concept, widely used by the Brazilian Military Civil Dictatorship, gained special attention to the words of the US President about the role of the Armed Forces in his anti -liberal and authoritarian perspective.
The idea that cities in the country can serve as a field of exercise for the most powerful troops on the planet is scary, and even more so when it was clear that the goal is to have them perfectly aligned, marching in the same step as the undemocratic ideas cultivated by the current dominant North American group.
In the most scandalously ideological aspect, hegseth was the role of showman. Former Fox Newscoming, with passages in the conflicts of Afghanistan and Iraq, he used all the arsenal of vulgar rightism, with the right to tell the military elite that it is necessary to defend himself-to surrender-to the Maga booklet. Who does not want to ask to leave.
The politicization and instrumentalization of the Armed Forces is one of the classic ingredients of the coup poison alongside others, such as the affront to the courts and the silencing of universities. and their ideological collaborators, such as Hegseth and Vice Jd Vance. It was up to Vance, by the way, the prerogative to break the Senate vote, 50 to 50, to chancel Hegseth’s nomination for the defense.
For us we know the hardships of Latin America, with their pathetic and cruel bids of bananas republics, there is a certain tragic familiarity with what is ongoing in America. In fact it is not new–the idea that the US undergoes a Latin American process. We are in fact in the face of a novelty, the advent of right -wing radical populism in a superpower of liberal tradition whose influence on the designs of the world is enormous.
We are also talking-and there is some hope here-of a society that cultivated in history democratic values and institutions to preserve them. If they will be victorious (or to what extent) today is the great question.
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