Antagonizing Trump? Uninvited, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Visits Former U.S. President George W. Bush, Not a Trump Fan
By Julio
Severo
George W. Bush received an unexpected
visit on May 15, 2019. Visiting Dallas, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro wanted
to talk to the former U.S. president, even though no official invitation was
extended to the Brazilian president.
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| Jair Bolsonaro and George W. Bush |
Bush has been a Trump critic. In fact, all
the Bush family has been hostile to Trump — so hostile that even
Russian President Vladimir Putin has already defended Trump against Bush.
Such hostility comes from the fact that
Trump condemned the Bush-led Iraq War and said that Bush lied. Bush never forgave
Trump for this, and the Bush family made it very clear that they did not vote
for Trump.
Why, then, would Bolsonaro burst into the
middle of a conflict between Bush and Trump? Bush belongs to the neocon wing,
who loves wars for every and any reason. So it is no wonder that when prominent
neocon John McCain died last year, Trump was not invited, but Bush and Barack
Hussein Obama were guests of honor.
So neocons love Bush and Obama, but they are
suspicious of Trump. Why then does Bolsonaro want access to neocons through
Bush? Does he want a new version of the Iraq War in South America?
Not only Bush had a good relationship with
McCain and neocons, but also with left-wingers. In
2014 Bush said famously that former U.S. President Bill Clinton, a left-winger,
was his brother. If Bush was conservative, why call pro-abortion and
pro-sodomy Clinton a brother?
If in a trip to Brazil Trump visited
former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva, a left-winger, it would
be a bad choice, because Lula and Bolsonaro are not friends. In fact, the BBC
report said that Bush had so a good relationship with Lula that the former
Brazilian president visited Camp David, a privilege that U.S. presidents give to
very few foreign presidents. It is no wonder, considering that Bush has an
excellent relationship with left-wingers Obama and Clinton.
One of the reasons for the meeting with
Bush was probably that Bolsonaro is surrounded by poor advisers. It is a bad decision
to try, even minimally, to antagonize Trump.
If Bolsonaro met Bush because he thought
he has not gotten everything with Trump, it’s all his fault. Shortly before
meeting Trump in March, Bolsonaro
gave at the Brazilian Embassy in Washington a dinner in honor of Steve Bannon,
whom Trump
called an opportunist and expelled from the White House. Bolsonaro’s poor advisers
have not helped him very much.
Portuguese
version of this article: Antagonizando Trump? Sem convite, Bolsonaro visita o
ex-presidente dos EUA George W. Bush, não um fã de Trump
Source: Last Days Watchman
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