Flight from the Dollar will cause the Economy will blow

[biffvernon]

You missed out supply them with state of the art weapons systems.

[emordnilap]

You missed out supply them with state of the art weapons systems.

Sorry. Sort-of concentrated on ordinary people.

[Standuble]

The USA can invade Brazil if they choose but there is absolutely no way they can make it look justifiable. Nobody is going to believe some story about saving the rainforest or stopping the drugs trade. The rat won't just stink but will stick out like a sore thumb.

There is also the risk of igniting the whole of Central and South America against the USA. An unenviable situation considering the state of their Mexican border.

[Little John]

I've posted this elsewhere, but here is relevant aswell

The left wing presidential candidate Eduardo Campos, the leader of the left-of-center Brazilian Socialist Party (which are, by definition, anti-USA imperialist) who was set to challenge President Dilma Rousseff in a presidential poll set for next year, has just been killed in a plane "accident". We seem to be having a lot of plane "accidents" at the moment don't we.

http://rt.com/news/180112-brazil-helico ... sh-houses/

Brazil is one of the BRICS who signed up to the deal to dump the petrodollar.

[emordnilap]

The USA can invade Brazil if they choose but there is absolutely no way they can make it look justifiable. Nobody is going to believe some story about saving the rainforest or stopping the drugs trade. The rat won't just stink but will stick out like a sore thumb.

There is also the risk of igniting the whole of Central and South America against the USA. An unenviable situation considering the state of their Mexican border.

What do Brazil, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Panama, Haiti, Chile, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guyana, El Salvador - and all the others I can't think of - have in common?

Brazil, 1961-64:

President Joao Goulart was guilty of the usual crimes: He took an independent stand in foreign policy, resuming relations with socialist countries and opposing sanctions against Cuba; his administration passed a law limiting the amount of profits multinationals could transmit outside the country; a subsidiary of ITT was nationalized; he promoted economic and social reforms. And Attorney-General Robert Kennedy was uneasy about Goulart allowing "communists" to hold positions in government agencies. Yet the man was no radical. He was a millionaire land-owner and a Catholic who wore a medal of the Virgin around his neck. That, however, was not enough to save him. In 1964, he was overthrown in a military coup which had deep, covert American involvement. The official Washington line was...yes, it's unfortunate that democracy has been overthrown in Brazil...but, still, the country has been saved from communism.

For the next 15 years, all the features of military dictatorship that Latin America has come to know were instituted: Congress was shut down, political opposition was reduced to virtual extinction, habeas corpus for "political crimes" was suspended, criticism of the president was forbidden by law, labor unions were taken over by government interveners, mounting protests were met by police and military firing into crowds, peasants' homes were burned down, priests were brutalized...disappearances, death squads, a remarkable degree and depravity of torture...the government had a name for its program: the "moral rehabilitation" of Brazil.

Washington was very pleased. Brazil broke relations with Cuba and became one of the United States' most reliable allies in Latin America.

"guilty of the usual crimes" - my earlier point precisely.

[adam2]

I have deleted several posts and edited others that contained personal insults and remarks. Please try to remain reasonably polite and somewhat on the topic rather than simply trading insults.

[BritDownUnder]

Sorry if my 'pest' comments upset people. There is no doubt in my mind Russia is merely a 'pest' to America but is something of a more deadly threat to other FSU countries neighbouring it such as the Baltic States, Ukraine and Georgia. Yet other countries such as Armenia and Tajikistan rely on Russia for national survival.

The US buys very little oil (maybe 5% of consumption) from Russia. I should imagine of the half of its oil consumption it has to import most comes from the rest of the Americas and West Africa along with a million barrels from the Middle East.

Only in terms of nuclear and strategic missile technology Russia is able to remotely threaten the US (but at risk of self-destruction). The recent appearance of a couple of 'Bear' bombers off California is probably Putin's way of reminding them of that, but economically Russia is tiny compared with the US and with an emerging demographic crisis in its Slavic population and real challenges both internally from its restive Turkic and Caucasian populations and externally from a resource hungry China on its eastern frontier.

Back on topic I see no reason why Russia should not sell oil and Gas to China for RMBs or roubles but they may be tied to what they can buy with them.

Anyway I am off to China again. As you may know this forum bans users from China but I shall enlighten you on life inside the leading BRICS country on my return.

[cubes]

The USA can invade Brazil if they choose but there is absolutely no way they can make it look justifiable. Nobody is going to believe some story about saving the rainforest or stopping the drugs trade. The rat won't just stink but will stick out like a sore thumb.

There is also the risk of igniting the whole of Central and South America against the USA. An unenviable situation considering the state of their Mexican border.

They won't invade, they'll just ensure that power goes to those who support them - just like they did in the 60s and 70s.

[fuzzy]

Always worth wading back through the heavy read of 'Shock Doctrine' for a compilation of countries screwed by 'outside consultants'

If you havent tried it, I would say start with the Chapter on South Africa post apartiet, as the early chapters can be a bit chewy. Still a necessary read.