> This will get our banks banned from the international banking system, isolating our country. The economic damage this will cause simply cannot be calculated.
What about Trump’s actions makes anyone think that Brazil will escape this fate if only it suborns its democracy to Trump’s whims?
Of the BRICS nation, the only one that isn’t being targeted by Trump is Russia. We don’t need to get into why that is.
India is being targeted purportedly for importing Russian oil which is obviously nonsensical considering Russia keeps escaping additional sanctions and other areas, such as China which imports more Russian oil and the EU which imports far more gas, don’t face sanctions for this reason.
China has been facing a whole set of sanctions for the past 6 months and other restrictions.
South Africa faced an escalation based on nonsensical claims of white genocide (South Africa has a massive crime problem…there’s no evidence it’s targeted towards white people and if anything the opposite seems true considering black South Africans are suffering more from crime than white SA)
And these are just BRICS. We haven’t even gotten to the Penguins yet.
> What about Trump’s actions makes anyone think that Brazil will escape this fate if only it suborns its democracy to Trump’s whims
The Trump administration is persecuting Brazil for bringing the perpetrators of a coup to trial, and went to the extent of threatening individua judges of the trial with sanctions if their ruling is unfavourable to Trump.
This has by no means any relationship with democracy or basic democratic principles.
The only coup that took place here was perpetrated by the unelected supreme court itself. Not a single person voted for those judges. They gave themselves extraordinary powers and have usurped the functions of the other branches of government. There is nothing democratic or principled about their monocratic decisions or their censorship and imprisonment of their political opposition.
> The only coup that took place here was perpetrated by the unelected supreme court itself.
This is your very personal version of reality, and one where you don't even stop to think about all the absurdities and inconsistencies it's built upon.
You seriously need to step away from the keyboard and reassess what you are doing.
What about Trump’s actions makes anyone think that Brazil will escape this fate if only it suborns its democracy to Trump’s whims?
Of the BRICS nation, the only one that isn’t being targeted by Trump is Russia. We don’t need to get into why that is.
India is being targeted purportedly for importing Russian oil which is obviously nonsensical considering Russia keeps escaping additional sanctions and other areas, such as China which imports more Russian oil and the EU which imports far more gas, don’t face sanctions for this reason.
China has been facing a whole set of sanctions for the past 6 months and other restrictions.
South Africa faced an escalation based on nonsensical claims of white genocide (South Africa has a massive crime problem…there’s no evidence it’s targeted towards white people and if anything the opposite seems true considering black South Africans are suffering more from crime than white SA)
And these are just BRICS. We haven’t even gotten to the Penguins yet.