The return of Lula and the challenges facing the Brazilian economy post-Bolsonaro, both domestically and in relation to geopolitics and geoeconomics with the heavy hand of the US in the background. In the larger picture, US hegemony means control of the world's resources, which means subjugating the large resources holders, Russia, China, Brazil, Indonesia, India, and the African continent — that is, most of the Global South and east — while keeping Europe in state of vassalage. This is the principal dynamic of this ear. The rest is just details, e.g., hybrid warfare as a means to this end. This dynamic is the prism through all else on the world stage must be viewed in terms of the present state of the world system, which is now in flux. Lula is cast in the role of a major player in "the Great Game" being played on the global chessboard. Pepe Escobar elaborates.
Pepe Escobar is always upbeat about this views. But the world situation and the specific events he describes are gritty and outcomes uncertain for epistemological reasons (known unknowns) and ontological reasons (unknown and unknowable unknowns).
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4 comments:
Lula is a known quantity. Otherwise, he'd be back in prison.
And if an American president had won by such a slim margin, pundits would be saying that the country was divided. Expect the Brazilian military to leave their barracks if Lula exceeds his slim mandate.
Lula will be a tool of western globalism from the environmental faction. We must remember that banks never profited as much as during the Lula rule. He kept the real artificially inflated during all of his government, which made Brazilian oligarchs like Paulo Lemman buy assets in America and Europe like crazy instead of investing his profits in Brazil.
Pepe Escobar is really mistaken on this.
Pepe is a triumphalist... like Francis Fukuyama, they come in different flavours.
Only after the fact do they admit they may have been overly optimistic.
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