US President Donald Trump announced on Monday that any nation conducting business with Iran will face a 25% tariff on all trade with Washington, thus crushing earlier celebrations by Brazil's Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whose government proudly announced a substantial trade surplus with Tehran, totaling US$2.8 billion in 2025, driven by corn and soybeans. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesFrustrated? Devastated? I understand!
Jan 14th, 2026 - 09:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0The ban on trade with Russia must have also been devastated, frustrated, right?
But no, in fact, Brazil continues to trade with Russia. The only ones devastated and frustrated were the people of the United States with the price increases on supermarket shelves.
Frankly, do you at Mercopress really think Brazil will put a bridle on itself and interrupt a stable and lucrative trade we have with Iran to please a Nazi like Trump?
Trade with the United States represented 9% of our transactions in 2025, and will represent less than 7% now in 2026.
What will you do now? Cry? Wage war? Invade? Destroy?
Soon the USA will be an absolute zero for Brazil and South America. Even Milei is going to cry at Xi Jinping's feet for more investments!
From time to time, I think you don't live in this world, or perhaps you're people from a distant past, back in the early 20th century when combustion engines still dominated the world.
Your post propaganda posts ger more comical and stupid by the day.
Jan 14th, 2026 - 09:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0I dont like what the US has become bit Brazil will always trade with the US.
You support a cruel regime in Iran, where their is no freedom of speech. where you are controlled by religious zealots. where over 2,500 protesters have been murdered, you support Putin who has sent 100,000s of Russians to death over a pointless war, who kills or jails anyone who speaks against him. you really are a delusional fool full of nothing but hate , you live in a western country that allows freedom of speech but support countries that do not. thank goodness 99% of Brazil are not communist and dont think the same stupid garbage that you do,
Brasso's Russian handler is looking forward to becoming a citizen of Brazil, isn't that right, Brasso?
Jan 15th, 2026 - 03:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0”Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S. Army personnel in the European theater of World War II. Titled Army Talks, the series was designed “to help [the personnel] become better-informed men and women and therefore better soldiers.
Jan 19th, 2026 - 10:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0On March 24, 1945, the topic for the week was “FASCISM!”
Fascism, the U.S. government document explained, “is government by the few and for the few. The objective is seizure and control of the economic, political, social, and cultural life of the state.” “The people run democratic governments, but fascist governments run the people.”
“The basic principles of democracy stand in the way of their desires; hence — democracy must go! Anyone who is not a member of their inner gang has to do what he’s told. They permit no civil liberties, no equality before the law.”
Fascists “make their own rules and change them when they choose…. They maintain themselves in power by use of force combined with propaganda based on primitive ideas of ‘blood’ and ‘race,’ by skillful manipulation of fear and hate, and by false promise of security. The propaganda glorifies war and insists it is smart and ‘realistic’ to be pitiless and violent.”
Fascists understood that “the fundamental principle of democracy — faith in the common sense of the common people — was the direct opposite of the fascist principle of rule by the elite few,” it explained, “[s]o they fought democracy…. They played political, religious, social, and economic groups against each other and seized power while these groups struggled.”
Americans should not be fooled into thinking that fascism could not come to America, ...
... it was important for Americans to understand the tactics fascists would use to take power in the United States. They would try to gain power “under the guise of ‘super-patriotism’ and ‘super-Americanism.’” And they would use three techniques:
First, they would pit religious, racial, and economic groups against one another to bre
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