In this week’s commentary, space for a tribute to Francisco Pinto Balsemão and to raise “doubts” about the much talked about assault on the Louvre
Paulo Portas considers that “Europe, at the right time, failed what is its main security problem”.
Position taken by the TVI commentator (from the same group as CNN Portugal) in his weekly commentary space “Global” while talking about the war in Ukraine.
Portas sought to identify the “obstacle within Europe” for Ukraine to finance itself with Russian assets. This is a desire from Kiev that is difficult to achieve, which leads the analyst to argue that “Zelensky did not have an auspicious week” in the meetings he held with both Washington and Brussels.
The commentator recognizes that the financial system, as custodian of assets, cannot call into question its “credibility” by selling assets that do not belong to it. The only alternative is the one that has been used: interest.
“In the extremely difficult circumstances that Ukraine is in, this point could seriously change the battle situation”, he considered.
Analyzing the relationship between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, Paulo Portas recalled that the week “wasn’t brilliant for Putin either”, since “there seems to have been at least an interruption in the ability he showed for nine months to manipulate the president of the United States.
Homage to Balsemão, the “great purge” in China and the “doubts” surrounding the assault on the Louvre
This week’s “Global” kicked off with a tribute to Francisco Pinto Balsemão.
“If there was a way to measure the individual contribution that certain personalities had for Portugal to take a leap, politically and economically, Francisco Pinto Balsemão would certainly be there”, argued Portas, then presenting several arguments for his thesis.
In the international analysis, I focus on the “great purge” in the Chinese Communist Party. “Xi Jinping is, since Mao Zedong, the greatest head-cutter, in the political sense, the greatest purger”, he began, to speak of a possible “exercise of internal terror”.
There’s still time to analyze the robbery at the Louvre Museum, which leaves Paulo Portas with two questions: why “the alarm didn’t work” and why the “jewels weren’t insured”.
