i can't believe i've caused so much hate... guys i love my brazilian and latvian friends i just think y'all are actually hysteric and neither country is gonna get invaded any time soon
@NKGBread@guanche_99 I can't help but wonder where did this idea even come from. Latvia was by and large way more literate than Russia, Riga was super industrialized and after the Red Army lost in 1920, the country itself managed to recover and develop just fine
@olhosdepapel@moodicw@IsraelCircles@zedsamcat Everyone wants an international leader that is chummy towards your own country, and it's not unconventional to support and legitimize their struggle whenever appropriate. But you need entirely unfounded conjectures to go from that to any type of military intervention
@olhosdepapel@moodicw@IsraelCircles@zedsamcat This is not a matter of ethics it's quite literally against the Yankee state's materialism to do retarded shit like this for no reason. They have far safer and legally permissible ways of influencing elections (standard diplomatic praxis)
@olhosdepapel@moodicw@IsraelCircles@zedsamcat Everyone wants an international leader that is chummy towards your own country, and it's not unconventional to support and legitimize their struggle whenever appropriate. But you need entirely unfounded conjectures to go from that to any type of military intervention
@olhosdepapel@moodicw@IsraelCircles@zedsamcat Brazil-China trade relations were strengthening even during Bolsonaro. Everything you mentioned are huge nothingburgers in the grand scheme of things, stuff that simply cannot justify the effort necessary to coup a country like Brazil
@kenopsiarae@SallyJadderpamI Venezuela was clearly way more antagonistic to the US and way more vulnerable than Brazil is now. And the entire aftermath was a couple dozen dead (the majority being officials) and oil trade negoatiations with the same standing government
@moodicw@IsraelCircles@zedsamcat Under Lula, Brazil has maintained its role as a great commercial partner for the US, Lula himself has consistently been very cooperative with Washington and with other Western partners
@SallyJadderpamI@kenopsiarae Because neither is going to happen, the US has no reason to fuck with Brazil nor does Russia want to risk a war with NATO in order to annex a shithole like Latvia