Fábio Porchat distribuindo bordoada da maneira mais eficiente possível: com escárnio.
Como será que Leifert vai responder? Como ele vai reafirmar ainda mais essa devoção?
Bora lembrar um pouco... Scolari chegou ao Chelsea em 2008, depois de ser técnico de Portugal, com sucesso, ou sucesso relativo porque muitos dizem que ele foi reponsável pela maior vergonha da história do futebol português perdendo a EURO dentro de casa, como um dos maiores técnicos do mundo. Sete meses depois, foi demitido após um 0 a 0 com o Hull City. John Terry disse que ele tinha o apoio de "dois ou três jogadores" no elenco. Dois ou três, num grupo de 24.
A história diz que os caciques do elenco: Drogba, Ballack e Cech foram pessoalmente reclamar ao Abramovich. Não dos resultados. Dos treinos. Os jogadores saíam pesados, sem fôlego pra Premier League. O próprio Drogba falou publicamente que eles mal conseguiam se arrastar do próprio campo para o do adversário no segundo tempo. O preparador físico era o sobrinho de Scolari. Terry falou em entrevista que incomodava o empenho na motivação e pouca consistência na parte tática e na parte física, Terry uma vez falou: Trabalhávamos com um técnico e que nos dava todos os detalhes do que precisávamos fazer no campo, com e sem a bola, para um técnico que falava que a gente precisa suar em campo. Ele estava se referindo ao Mourinho e ao Scolari.
Aí vem 2014. Copa em casa. Elenco decente e o famoso 7 a 1. Se Scolari é o pai do Penta é a mãe dos 7 x 1, o maior vexame esportivo da história do esporte. E o que ele disse depois? Que não mudaria nada. Que o problema foi a lesão de Neymar e a suspensão de Thiago Silva. A Alemanha daquele dia tinha um sistema. O Brasil de Scolari tinha nada além de um paizão.
A falta do Neymar é um modelo comum nos sistemas do treinador, pegar um craque, construir tudo em volta, chamar isso de gestão de grupo e vender emoção onde deveria ter método. Em 2002 funcionou porque o elenco era absurdo. Ronaldo Fenômeno, Ronaldinho, Rivaldo, Roberto Carlo etc. O próprio Scolari contou, anos depois, que entrava no vestiário e dizia aos jogadores para "serem eles mesmos." Isso não é filosofia, em 2014 isso já era uma vergonha.
O período do Chelsea foi uma sugestão da capacidade do treinador, ele não conseguia comunicar suas ideias, que dependia de discurso motivacional no lugar de treino, e que achava que abraçar o grupo substituía prepará-lo. Deco, que era seu aliado, resumiu bem: "Ele é um treinador emocional. Ele não conseguia nem fazer isso no Chelsea."
O problema nunca foi cobrar demais. Foi cobrar de menos, por tempo demais, do técnico errado.
China’s capital allocation system is colossally wasteful at the micro level, but devastatingly effective at the macro level.
It routinely overbuilds, duplicates capacity, funds weak firms, and tolerates enormous inefficiency by Western profitability and shareholder-return standards. Entire sectors can endure years of losses, redundant investment, and brutal overcompetition.
But that “waste” functions as a national-scale incubation system.
It compresses learning curves, drives down costs through overcapacity and competition, builds complete supply chains at extraordinary speed, and ensures that multiple firms survive long enough for a few globally dominant champions to emerge.
The West optimizes for efficient capital allocation and near-term returns.
China optimizes for ecosystem dominance, industrial depth, employment stability, technological catch-up, and long-term strategic positioning.
The result is that what looks irrational at the firm level can become highly rational at the system level. EVs, batteries, solar, drones, shipbuilding, telecom equipment, and increasingly AI infrastructure all reflect this pattern.
Colossally wasteful. Devastatingly effective.
The Western colonial empire is dying in the very cities where it was born. London, New York, Paris, Berlin, Sydney.
You can see it in rents, in food prices, in the price of a doctor's visit, in the closed factory at the end of every regional town.
The headlines call it recession.
But its actually the empire eating itself, because the outside has stopped feeding it.
For 300 years the deal was to extract from the Global South, subsidize the Global North. Cheap cotton, cheap rubber, cheap oil, cheap tin, cheap cobalt, cheap labor, cheap everything. The Western worker was poor by global standards but rich by global standards at the same time, because the rest of the world was bleeding out so they didn't have to.
That deal is over.
Because the people doing the bleeding stopped agreeing.
The Gulf states have quietly dropped petrodollar exclusivity. China and Russia settle in yuan and ruble. India buys Russian oil in rupees. Brazil and Argentina trade in local currency. The African Sahel kicked French troops out of 4 countries in 24 months. Niger nationalized its uranium. Burkina Faso is mining its own gold. Mali built a refinery for the first time in its national history.
None of this was supposed to happen.
It is happening anyway.
I think most Western analysts cannot see this because they were trained to look upward at presidents and downward at GDP, and the actual movement is sideways across capital flows.
Notice how the headline countries, the US, UK, France, keep losing wars they pretended to win.
Afghanistan. Iraq. Libya. Syria. Niger. Ukraine.
The military is still the loudest instrument in the toolkit. It is also the only one left that still works, not by serving its colonial states, but by fattening private sector profits.
When a hegemon's only working tool is the gun, and the gun keeps missing, that is what decline looks like in real time.
Now, the toolkit the West built to control the colonies is being repointed at its own population.
Debt traps. Criminalization. Prison labor. Surveillance. Mass eviction. Drug-economy management.
Engineered scarcity.
Permanent renter classes.
Two-tier policing.
The same playbook that flattened Congo, Indonesia, Honduras and the Philippines is now being applied to Detroit, Marseille, Manchester, Newcastle. The boot is the same boot.
This is the part that should make a working-class American or a British retiree or a single mother extremely angry, and unfortunately not at the people they're being told to be angry at.
Migrants did not cause this.
Welfare recipients did not cause this.
China did not cause this.
The class that owns the boot caused this, and it owns the boot in every country including yours.
Some of you might call this overblown.
You might say the West is still rich, still strong, still the world's reserve currency, still where the world's billionaires want to live.
All true. For now.
Empires take a long time to fall, and the rich exit the building decades before the lights go out.
They have already exited.
Watch where the wealth is parked. Not in the country it was extracted from. The capital has gone where the growth is, which is not London and not New York.
It is Riyadh, Dubai, Mumbai, Jakarta, Shenzhen, Sao Paulo. The owner class moved their money. Then they will move their passports. The flag will be the last thing they put down.
For the everyday person in the West, the next 20 years is going to be a managed contraction.
Real wages flat or falling. Public services rationed. Pensions clipped. Insurance unaffordable. Housing impossible.
They will tell you it is the migrants, then China, then the climate, then a new virus, then the algorithm.
It will be none of those.
For the everyday person in the Global South, the next 20 years is messier but freer. New patrons, new dependencies, but also new bargaining power. The petrodollar is no longer the only door. BRICS is no longer aspirational. The IMF is no longer the only lender. Africa is no longer waiting for permission. Latin America is choosing its own debtors.
I do not think this is a happy story for everyone.
Multipolarity is not peace. It is a different kind of pressure, distributed differently, with the violence rotating to new edges.
But the colonial age that started in 1492 is closing. Not gracefully. Not neatly. Not with a flag-lowering ceremony.
But forcefully.
Because capital dictates.
And it is dictating that the Western colonial empire is over.
O Umberto Eco criou o conceito de superinterpretação. Para Eco, superinterpretação é quando o leitor/intérprete vai além do que o texto pode legitimamente sustentar, atribuindo-lhe intenções, significados ocultos ou conexões que não encontram respaldo na estrutura textual nem no contexto histórico-cultural do texto. É só o que o pessoal faz aqui nesse hospício...
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