The Brazilian government has so far avoided verbal provocations to Donald Trump. It is a sensible position. There seems to be recognition of two basic and comprehensive facts.
The first is that Brazil is a regional average power with scarce power capacity – including commercial, in the war against the world Trump has already started.
The second is the fact that Trump declared not having friends, as it even treats allies as enemies. Among the latest examples of kicks given to countries so far friends in the United States, Trump threatened to cut vital financial aid to Arab countries if they do not stop their plan to occupy Gaza and send somewhere the two million Palestinians who still live there. .
Or to say that Ukraine could one day be from Russia, disregarding the suffering of a country that suffered a brutal invasion by Moscow and defends principles that have always been expensive to the alliance of Western countries – an alliance in which Trump seems very little today interested.
Returning to our country, the margin of maneuver has become narrow. The topics in which Brazil expects to have international protagonism Trump despises. Namely: the energy transition, which is the central point of COP 30 in Belém at the end of the year, and the reform of global governance institutions, which China carries the presidential presidency of Brazil.
The law of the strongest, also known as the jungle law, is where Trump bets today. It is not the law that favors us.
This content was originally published in Waack: Trump puts Brazil on the defensive on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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