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Sem impunidade para os insurrecionistas

Jan 10, 2023 Susan Stokes

CHICAGO – O Brasil tem agora sua própria versão do ataque de 6 de janeiro de 2021 ao Capitólio americano por apoiadores do presidente derrotado, Donald Trump. Dois anos e dois dias depois, apoiadores do ex-presidente Jair Bolsonaro invadiram o Congresso Nacional, o Supremo Tribunal Federal e o Palácio do Planalto em Brasília, consolidando as credenciais de Bolsonaro como “o Trump dos Trópicos ”.

A semelhança incrível entre a insurreição fracassada do Brasil e o ataque ao Capitólio americano destaca os muitos paralelos entre Bolsonaro e Trump. Os dois são presidentes de extrema-direita, antidemocráticos e de um mandato só que ofereceram nada além de desinformação e bravatas durante a pandemia de covid-19, custando centenas de milhares de vidas. Ambos atormentaram a imprensa e desafiaram a independência de seus judiciários. Ambos afirmaram que somente fraudes significativas e urnas de votação manipuladas poderiam derrotar suas candidaturas à reeleição. Seus legados são os milhões de cidadãos que duvidaram da integridade das eleições de seus países e os milhares que saquearam suas próprias capitais e atacaram policiais num esforço fútil para derrubar a democracia.

Mas as diferenças sutis entre as pós-presidências de Bolsonaro e Trump ressaltam a importância de se processar ex-lideranças antidemocráticas. Muitos americanos temem que indiciar Trump por incitar uma insurreição possa produzir uma dinâmica revanchista, com cada governo usando os tribunais para acertar as contas políticas com o anterior. Mas a história do Brasil desde a restauração da democracia em 1989 sugere o contrário.

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Robert Wolff Jan 11, 2023

The Age-Old Plot of Intrahuman Warfare:

In the current age the World Order is in upheaval again. Those nations which disbenefited from following the “Western Rules Based Order” are banding together and revolting politically and militarily against Western economic power. The nations rebelling against ‘unfair’ Western power are attempting to replace Western-controlled world financial institutions with a fairer Multipolar World Order: “I Can’t Win by Your Rules!”

In response to the worldwide rebellion against the American-controlled New World Order, the West is using the power of its Financial System to sanction all the world’s nations and their leaders rebelling against Western control. This is accomplished by cutting off those rebelling nations from access to the Western Banking System that controls all trade of goods and services internationally.

These financial sanctions by the West isolate its enemies politically and devastates their economies. The levying of Western financial sanctions is identical, in spirit, to the military siege tactics used by Medieval armies to deprive their enemies of the human necessities of life (until they admit defeat and give up their resistance to their conqueror). The results are inhumane, but the strategy is historically successful.

Russians under Putin who is opposing the Western Economic World Order are suffering tragic human costs which are causing their peoples to reject their leaders as “Tyrants who Lead by Fear” rather than concern for their citizens.

The Western Elites hope that the citizens of [the Sino-Russian Alliance] nations warring against the Western World Order will internally revolt against their regimes and its leaders and replace them with leaders compliant with the Western World Order. The Putin regime in Russia is the primary target of the West today.

Whether the West or the ‘Enemies of Western Power’ win (through forcing capitulation of their enemies) is the big question in this war of attrition. Many expert observers expect this war to continue for a long time as each contending side, step-by-step, deploys more and more of its resources to grind down their enemy’s civilization into a primitive state of existence, in hopes that their peoples will internally revolt and replace their own ruling regimes with leaders that capitulate to the power of their conqueror.

No Retreat and No Surrender!
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