No program Last analysis of this Thursday (10), The guests talked about the history of the confrontation between Donald Trump and Lula, whose apex was increased by 50% tariffs for Brazilian products. This was just the outcome of a conflict that has been dragging on since the beginning of the petista mandate. The world now sees the shock between two very different worldviews.
FGV professor Daniel Vargas points to a change of diplomatic posture in the country, which led to the climb of tension: “The Brazilian diplomatic tradition was to prioritize, cautiously, national interests, dialoguing with everyone, without going into personalism.” In contrast, Lula abdicated this prudence and sought to become a global leader, as through recent demonstrations against the United States at the BRICS meeting, says Vargas.
“Lula’s history of statements is not from today. All this anti -American speech is already permeated in his speech. Now he has given it,” said writer Francisco Escorsim. According to him, this stance in the third term is even more radical than in previous mandates, because the petista now wants to leave a historical legacy.
Lawyer André Marsiglia says that Lula confuses the defense of sovereignty with the pure demonstration of strength, when it should also be to recognize its own limitations. “It’s a detachment of reality that can be progressive. It seems to me to be the most serious,” he warns.
The New Trumpist Geopolitics
In addition to the economic issue of the overwhelms imposed by the Republican, there is a geopolitical component in such a resource, according to Vargas. He explains that “Trump has used tariffs as a comprehensive negotiation instrument. This can relate to an economic interest or, in the Brazilian case, concerns the treatment of freedom expression”.
Marsiglia also believes that Trump is inviting Brazil to negotiate and says that even inaccuracy of his letter is a strategy. “He’s calling us to the table. Trump is a negotiator,” says the lawyer. Also, it adds that Lula’s possibility of retaliation could be harmful to Brazil. “The country will be unfeasible and then either closes or the government falls. If no one interves there, we will reach this crossroads,” he says.
The federal government still studies how it will react to Trump’s “tariff” to Brazil. The evaluation within the PT is that the episode may precisely give the government a discourse of defense of national sovereignty, if they can impose on the opposition the responsibility for taxation on Brazil.
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