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  But by hook or by crook; he WILL be the ambassador [and justify the imports of the latest arms from the USA] - want to bet?

  Aug 15th, 2019 - 12:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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  imoyaro

  You're looking at this all wrong. As far back as early Chinese history, and fast forwarding to Roman practice, an exchange between two tyrants of their first born son is almost de rigueur. I would see Trump and Bolsonaro exchanging sons as a “classic.”

  Aug 15th, 2019 - 04:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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  DemonTree

  Trump's not gonna send his son to Brazil. You don't imagine he sees Bozo as an equal, do you? B's just another fawning ass-kisser.

  Aug 15th, 2019 - 09:14 am - Link - Report abuse +1
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  @DemonTree
  
  100% TRUE but the Educated-Brainwashed-Ignorants can still insist that the USA & Brazil are bedfellows!
  
  If their prayers are answered:
  - Brazil will end-up importing arms worth billions [PRIORITY]
  - With Diplomatic Immunity, a lot of “stuff” can be smuggled
  - NOTHING substantial/meaningful in return!

  Aug 15th, 2019 - 12:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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  RICO

  The subservient or defeated nation would always send their noble sons as hostages to Rome. If the client state rebelled the hostages could be slaughtered. As time passed the hostages would be indoctrinated and then sent back to their homes to betray their people.

  Aug 19th, 2019 - 02:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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  Chicureo

  “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
  For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.
  A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)

  Aug 19th, 2019 - 08:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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  Terence Hill

  The Dark Side of the Investigation Meant to Clean Up Brazil
  “For decades, we had this clear narrative that in the 1980s, we transitioned from dictatorship to democracy, and made a clean break with that past,” Matias Spektor, a professor of international relations at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas university in São Paulo, told me. “Lava Jato revealed just how imperfect this transition was, that at the heart of our democracy, corrupt practices endemic to authoritarian regimes are still very pervasive—and now, the tragic irony of it all is we learn that a very small group of activist bureaucratic entrepreneurs [such as Moro and chief prosecutor Deltan Dallagnol] themselves used features of this dirty system to propel themselves into politics.”
  “Scandals that involve judges are even more dangerous to democracies than scandals that involve other institutional actors, since the judiciary only derives its legitimacy from the claim to neutrality,” Donatella della Porta, a professor of political science at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, Italy, and expert on corruption and anti-corruption campaigns, told me.
  She said investigative journalism had raised awareness in some cases -- but that the other way these battles have been fought, with a mobilized judiciary leading the charge, usually has serious consequences.
  “They divide public opinion, and politicians defend themselves by saying the judiciary has been politicized,” she said. “In Italy, this accusation was inaccurate, but in Brazil, it's been proved to be true.”
  https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/08/anti-corruption-crusades-paved-way-bolsonaro/596449/

  Aug 21st, 2019 - 04:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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