If it is true that it is possible to expect everything, what is the degree of seriousness that should be applied to nothing subtle threat made by your spokeswoman on Tuesday afternoon (9)?
Karoline Leavitt, with the lightness that is peculiar to her, the sanctions already applied to Brazil, the combat that are raising the military operation against traffickers cartels and the defense of press freedom.
For the last item, the spokesman said, Washington will dedicate all his “economic and military power.” The question is nothing rhetorical: is Trump willing to declare war to Brazil case (PL) be convicted by the Supreme Court?
It may sound delusional or just ridiculous, but this is the subtext of Leavitt’s speech, which occurs at a time when republican administration has moved considerable military resources to the strategic surroundings of the dictatorship that they consider to increase drug influx in the US.
Recapitulating: On July 9, Trump announced the import tax for Brazilian products because, among other things, but first, Brazil was chasing Bolsonaro – for him, and Lula (PT) are indistinguishable.
The Supreme Minister imposed precautionary measures and then house arrest to the former president. It received, on the inverse road, a harsh punishment of the magnistky law, designed to curb the economic activity of terrorists, traffickers, dictators and war criminals.
He, like all the cut -off colleagues except the three that Trump associates with pockets, André Mendonça, Kassio Nunes Marques and Luiz Fux, revoked – extended to his families and then led to Lula administrations for random reasons.
As seen in the vote of Moraes, uttered as Leavitt manifested, even with the certainty of coming. It doesn’t seem like it will now be, with a gunman rhetoric, which will be successful.
Returning to the question, it is more than unlikely that the White House gogo is more than that. First, for the sake of legal motivation: of ships and fighters, exploding suspected trafficking boats without asking before, because it supports a questionable February decision.
According to her, drug cartels are terrorist organizations. Thus, the rules of full freedom to attack these enemies would be applicable to the groups operating in Venezuela and, for this logic, in Mexico and even in Brazil.
Because, in addition, Maduro is a disaffection that has a $ 50 million prize for his head in Washington, sought by the American court for trafficking. If Trump will really go to the roads or just hope the dictator is uncertain, but his opponent is fragile.
In the esoteric hypothesis of wanting to employ the strength to defend the freedom of expression that he says incarnated in Bolsonaro, the US president would need to ask Congress for permission. It does not seem like a defensible case even for the most striking ally of the Billicos Secretaries Marco Rubio (State)
NEVERS OUT THE PRACTICAL PART: What would military punish be like to Brazil? A Tomahawk Cruise missile over the Supreme? A naval block against an ally of over two centuries? Nuclear obliteration of? The unfeasible invasion of a continental country?
None of this makes practical sense, with the caveat that it is always good to return to the phrase that opens this text. Even without the prevalence of common sense in the northern hemisphere these days, Leavitt’s bravado seems to do little more than putting Nova Cunha in the relationship between Brasilia and Washington and thrill those that on September 7th.
