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Agree, especially since I'm old enough to remember what was said about Reagan during his second term in office.

A US version of the Brazilian Pix, then(not quite, as Pix is a system to transfer money between accounts - but quite similar mechanically, it seems). BTW, I refuse to use Pix for anything.

Fully agree.

His family has better chances than he does, because the Russians will be gunning for him personally(his family would be collateral damage). But right now, I'd say that while it's more likely(assuming the Russians get their desired ending - the Ukrainian forces are fighting harder and better than...

Either A) or B), with B) being more likely, IMO.

No, what the Office of the President said was Putin wouldn't invade Ukraine while a Head of State was visiting Russia(and they were right about that). They very explicitly didn't say Russia wouldn't invade.

That was an illusion that died hard, first in Argentina, more recently in Brazil. I have the impression that, in the 1980's, many in the upper-middle class thought that after redemocratization, in spite of the problems that Brazil had, Brazil would eventually become something like a...

It probably won't.

He doesn't have the balls for anything close to that; the only thing he's good for is talking, and even there, some of his magic is fading away.

Which one?

I believe that, as things stand now, he's right. Whether he'll be right tomorrow, is anyone's guess.

He's already met with Putin; he arrived on Russia on Monday. The Brazilian government has stated last week they don't believe Russia will make a move on Ukraine while there is a Head of State visiting Russia(I mostly agree with that).

Says you.

I definitely don't consider Brazilian OpSec regarding elections as good, especially given Electoral Justice's standard official answer to public questions regarding the safety of voting machines is 'you're talking crap, the machines are safe' in officialese, without addressing the complaints...

They elected a fucking communist for president, that's what they did.

I don't need to imagine, this is how things work in Brazil; congressional votes are anonymous(a lot of the results leak, but theoretically they are secret).

Their idiocy isn't that they didn't expect a betrayal, but that they expected to betray him.

As an addendum, some information has come up that points to the country the guy was trying to sell the information to being India.

Brazil has a slow-going SSN program(since the 1970s) going on. Right now, the prototype for the SSN reactor is being designed, and the SSN is expected to enter service around 2034(God only knows if it'll be able to meet this deadline).