This. This was never full-scale. They likely kept that line as means of two utilities: if russia lost the war (so fucking hard i think not even they believed it in the start of the war and now they likely don`t do again), they would say russia used all their force and mobilization capabilities against Ukraine. If they won, they would victimize ukraine as the "barbarian slavs" used their full force. But it NEVER was full-scale and even the "partial mobilization" russia did afterwards is ridiculously low in scale of men (maybe not in scale of industrial production as they are wrecking NATO weapon stocks) and of war effort.
The brazilian army, in bolsonaro`s years in government, has bought armored cars from the IOF in an amount which is close to $450 mllion. This has went into the neoliberal right local media and they are making a huge talk about it. The army fears Lula vetoes their sale, as the brazilian army and our national intelligence are intimately tied to the IOF and ABIN (The intelligence) obeys to orders from mossad, as when they tiped the arrest of people claiming they were hezbollah.
Now its another chapter in how Lula tries to show if he and PT are really left-wing or not. He can veto the sale. I think he will not do it. Lets see if he will.
I love what its happening. Is the US finally going to turn into dictactorship brazil, slowly in years close the regime and keep its pseudo-republican institutions working just for show while passing institutional acts for censorship, repression and violence?
I really hope from all my heart they keep believing in the supremacy of their planes. At the moment they decide to try some suicide ride against Russia by ukrainian pilots penetrating deeply with the f-18 and some advanced f-16 (not the trash ukraine will receive soon), they may have a not very exciting surprise and lose 4 planes for no Su-57.
Its still a bragging lie. The armatas are about as advanced. No amount of uranium defenses can protect you from the scale of artillery and drone harassment Russia can deliver.
There is no possibility that "nothing gets better of worse" in the horizon. This would be seen by those who matter (political authorities in most countries of the world and local bourgeoisies) as another severe mutilation of international institutions which the same US and other countries fought for existing and undermine the prestige and image of the United States.
Neoliberal economics (from chicago to new consensus bullshit) believing speculative crap in NASDAQ and Dow Jones materialize artillery shells while Russia literally uses what the west did to very slowly, year by year, attempt to build itself as an nationalist high class censitary republic (like the france of 1911) which can challenge the empire, starting by building a massive weapon industry as much bigger than it was 2 years ago and literally gaining a huge profit from it. It only proves right again economics in neoliberal economics courses in universities are a pseudoscience.
Guyana would get wrecked if they threatened the national security of Venezuela, which would force France to intervene and oh... the army who hates france and the brazilian congress to likely press Lula (or bolsonaro) to launch raids against french territory. Guyana is a proxy paper tiger.
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