Yeah, shit feels a bit crazy right now. I didn’t know about the Australia and US rare earth deal, but I’m not gonna lie, the US basically moving at our doorstep here worries me to death. It’s a fucking shame Lula is not saying shit about any of that. The US already exploded more than 10 Venezuelan boats, killing multiple people, all in the name of “combating drug trafficking”, when by the footage you can clearly see not a single one of those boats could cross the fucking ocean to reach the US, there’s literally zero possibility that these boats were carrying drugs, and if they really were, the US could just as easily capture one and use it as proof, which would 100% convince a shit ton of people of the “need to invade Venezuela”.

Unfortunately my mom watches a lot of CNN here in Brasil (more like have it as background noise, but she still pays attention sometimes), and the way they report on Venezuela boils my blood, every single journalist there makes sure to always call Maduro a dictator and always refers to it’s government as a regime, they are quite literally doing the US’s work by manufacturing consent for the invasion. It doesn’t help that the average brasilian has always heard of Venezuela as a “dictatorship”, and buy that wholesale.

Also, the US has been pressuring us a lot about our rare earth, basically trying to make us sell it to them unprocessed, which sucks because exploring these resources could be a path to the re-industrialization of Brasil, which is something the US most likely doesn’t want to happen.

It’s just like the Marxist content creators here said would happen under Trump, a different direction for their international policy where the US turns it’s eyes to Latin America again, it’s Big Stick 2.0 it seems like, after all to the empire we are just their “backyard”.

Also, for anyone reading, what does the government shut down in the US mean exactly? I hear it mentioned a lot, but I haven’t really searched about it.