Ideological Clash between Brazil and Argentina, with Trump Choosing Not to Side with Bolsonaro’s Conflict against Argentina
By Julio Severo
“Alberto Fernández said Friday [November
1, 2019] that Trump has called to congratulate him on Sunday’s vote. In a
statement, his press office said that Trump told him that he would do ‘a
fantastic job,’ that he looked forward to meeting him soon and that his
‘victory’ had been talked about worldwide,” said the Associated Press.
“Congratulations on the great victory. We
watched it on television,” Trump said. “You will do a great job, and I hope to
meet you soon. Your victory has been talked about all around the world.”
Trump addressed the IMF question during
the phone call. “I’ve instructed my team at the IMF to work with you, so don’t
hesitate to call me,” he said, assuring Fernández he’d delivered a directive
ordering cooperation with Argentina.
“We congratulate the people of Argentina
for holding successful presidential elections on October 27 and we are ready to
work with Alberto Fernández as the new president of Argentina,” [Secretary of
State Mike] Pompeo said in a statement issued Monday after the election.
Trump,
who is far away on the North, was able to congratulate Argentina. Yet, Brazilian
President Jair Bolsonaro was not able to give any congratulation, even though
Brazil is Argentina’s neighbor.
Even Chile’s right-wing President
Sebastián Piñera congratulated Fernández.
What led Bolsonaro to hostility against
Fernández was the fact that the new Argentine president is socialist and close
to the former Brazilian socialist President Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva. Just
hours before election results showed him winning Argentina’s presidential
election on October 27, Fernández took to Twitter to wish a happy birthday to
Lula. In the photo, Fernández made the “Free Lula” sign, a highly provocative
gesture that seemed directed at Bolsonaro. In his victory speech that night,
Fernández again called for Lula to go free. As punishment, Bolsonaro threatened
to “exclude” Argentina from the Mercosur trade block and not to attend
Fernández’s inauguration.
However, what is complicated for Bolsonaro
is not complicated for Trump.
While Bolsonaro has made it clear that
Argentina under the socialist Alberto Fernandez will have no congratulation or
support from Brazil, Trump has done just the opposite: He has made it clear
that Argentina will have both U.S. congratulation and support.
If Bolsonaro doesn’t want to congratulate
the socialist president of Argentina, Trump does it!
Trump’s
clear message is that he is not part of Bolsonaro’s ideological war with
Argentina. Trump is independent, just as Bolsonaro is independent. In fact, Bolsonaro has honored
Steve Bannon, who has dishonored Trump.
And Bolsonaro has antagonized Trump by
visiting former U.S. President George W. Bush, who is not a Trump fan.
So Bolsonaro has no right to complain about Trump antagonizing him.
The only important is business. With
Argentine and Brazil. Regardless their ideological clashes. For Trump, business
is above ideology.
Trump’s congratulation to the Argentine
socialist president is a geopolitical and economic chess game. Trump seems to
understand such chess. Bolsonaro does not.
As a conservative evangelical engaged for
decades in the fight against socialism, I do not understand Bolsonaro, who has rejected
Cuba and Venezuela, but he does not reject communist China. On the contrary, he
visited
China during the commemoration of the 70 years of its communist revolution that
killed millions of Chinese. And he even called China a “capitalist nation.”
If
Bolsonaro can do business with China, the largest communist nation in the
world, with no concern for its human right violations against millions of
Christians, why cannot he do business with socialist nations like Argentina and
Venezuela, which are not so radical and violent against Christians as China is?
Perhaps this is the lesson Trump is trying to teach Bolsonaro.
Or perhaps Trump is following an old
American geopolitical strategy of strengthening Argentina against the rise of
Brazil as an economic power rivaling the U.S. hegemony, even regionally.
Argentina is seen by U.S. strategists as a
deterrent against Brazilian geopolitical and economic ambitions in
international affairs. This explains why socialist
Argentina is ahead of Brazil in OECD, even though Bolsonaro made several compromises
to have Trump approving Brazil for OECD in 2019.
If this is a geopolitical chess game
played by Trump, who is correctly concerned only about making and keeping
America great, Bolsonaro is playing astrological checkers under the guidance by
Olavo
de Carvalho, considered his Rasputin, who thinks that he is an expert on:
*
Human rights: He has told that the Inquisition,
which tortured and killed thousands and thousands of Jews and Protestants, was
a fiction and lie created by U.S. Protestants.
*
Geopolitics: He is behind of the appointment of
the Brazilian Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo, who is an adherent of the
Islamic occultist René Guénon and his most prominent disciple, Julius Evola, who wrote books
advocating occultism and conservatism that inspired Nazism and fascism.
*
Education:
He kept his own children away from school, but he never homeschooled them
because he was busy involved in occultism and orgies. Two of his children are
Muslims and one is a professional astrologer. Even so, he is behind of the appointment of
the Brazilian Education Minister Abraham Weintraub, who wants more daycare
centers than the former socialist administrations.
The former Brazilian Education minister chosen
by Carvalho was an admirer of Hillary Clinton and a Trump hater.
During many years Carvalho himself was a professional astrologer.
As the old astrologers who advised kings, he is an “adviser” to Bolsonaro, just
as Rasputin was to Russia’s right-wing tsar.
To
play his geopolitical chess independently, Trump expelled his own Rasputin,
Steve Bannon, who in fact is a friend of Carvalho.
Both were influenced by Guénon.
While Trump is playing chess, Bolsonaro is
busy with his astrological checkers, betting luck with Brazil’s destiny.
Perhaps if Bolsonaro imitates Trump and
expels his Rasputin, he may take correct decisions — including moving the
Brazilian Embassy to Jerusalem — that will really let God make Brazil great.
With information from Associated Press,
Washington Post, Buenos Aires Times, Americas Quarterly and Yahoo.
Portuguese version of this article: Colisão
ideológica entre Brasil e Argentina, com Trump optando por não apoiar o
conflito de Bolsonaro contra a Argentina
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Reading:
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Right-Wing Statism
How the Powerful Union of Trump with
Evangelicals Saved the U.S. from Steve Bannon and His Occult Plan of a
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