The president stated this Friday (26) that he will include the issue of national defense in his government program for the next election. According to him, it is necessary to equip them because there are “a lot of crazy people in the world”.
In his speech, he spoke about the North American president’s threats to invade Greenland and the Panama Canal, in addition to the resumption of the manufacture of nuclear weapons by countries around the world.
“For the first time I am going to put the issue of national defense in the government program, which is so that we can make a public commitment to what type of defense we will want in this country. Because the concrete fact is that I was a constituent and I was one of those who voted for the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, because I had a commitment that whoever had a nuclear weapon would deactivate it. Has anyone deactivated it? Since then, Pakistan has armed itself, North Korea has armed itself, India has armed itself, China has armed itself, Russia, continue to manufacture more and more nuclear weapons. And until the other day, our defense industry was practically broken,” said the president.
“I don’t want war. But I also don’t want to be caught by surprise. I don’t want to realize that I have nothing, you know? I have to take care of myself. You know, one fine day, when no one expected it, Solano López, president of Paraguay, invaded Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay all at once. There are full of crazy black people in the world.”
The president’s statements were made during the launching and baptism ceremony of the frigate “Cunha Moreira”, in Itajaí (SC). She is the third of four vessels built in the Tamandaré Class Program, considered by the Navy to be the main project for renewing Surface Naval Power in recent decades.
The first, Tamandaré (F-200), has already been incorporated into the Squadron. The second, Jerônimo de Albuquerque (F-201), is undergoing sea trials. The fourth vessel, Mariz e Barros (F-203), is under construction.
Built at the TKMS Brasil Sul shipyard, the frigate is part of a program developed by the Navy in partnership with the Águas Azuis consortium, formed by the companies TKMS, Embraer and Atech. The project foresees investments of more than R$12 billion and brings together shipbuilding, technology transfer and strengthening of Brazilian industrial capacity in the defense sector.
“Right now the American president wants to take over Greenland, Canada is going to become his state, he wants to take over the Panama Canal. Where are we? So I want you to know that for me this is not a ship, this is not a pile of iron with a first-rate technological product. This is the beginning of a country that will actually and de jure assume the right to be sovereign, to take care of its own nose and to be prepared. That’s what we’re going to have to do from now on.”
The speech takes place at a time of escalating tensions with the United States due to the classification of the criminal factions PCC (Primeiro Comando da Capital) and CV (Comando Vermelho) as terrorist groups.
Trump’s decision was seen as a possibility of foreign intervention in the country, as occurred in Venezuela.
