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Coming from my perspective a little. Iran is a part of BRICS now and Lula has defended Iran in latest interviews. Let’s see how things develop and if Iran representatives will come to Rio (for the BRICS Summit). This is troubling.

I know this isn’t a popular opinion, but maybe the Executive has too much power. Power needs to be more decentralized. Will policies that make sense come out of this? I’m no political scientist, but this amount of power isn’t good.

That’s very true.

Institutional violence is constant intimidation.

Brazil! Football, Soccer, Goal, Goal!

Because it deepens the rift. Donald Trump as president also helps Putin a lot, as the russian president have said before, since Trump also wants to shake things up. As could be seen by his tariff policies.

Russia has been cut out from the West, it couldn’t even participate in the Olympics. So it got closer to China. Its economy is resilient despite the war. Russia has also been the leading country in the BRICS in regard to finding an alternative to the dollar together with Brazil. And it is working to ditch SWIFT (the banking system). So I’d say Russia is pretty interested into getting away from the West, at least economically and politically.

If I had to guess (my knowledge is a couple of geopolitics books), I’d say Russia wants to create a rift between East and West that is beneficial to China as well. China helped Russia build a quantum computer recently and there are more clues that they’re getting even closer together. I think Russia wants to shake the current world order.

This is very interesting. And what kind of platform wouldn’t process citizen data on the EU, I wonder?

If everything goes right (no Lula, no Bolsonaro), Brazil will move towards the Center in 2026.

I also think that reading “A Vampire in my room” with a sexy Chad on the cover isn’t much better than using Instagram, so…

I would blame the Big Tech social networks. My mom uses Instagram all the time and always claims she is getting “a lot of information”. I think that’s to blame. But also reading books isn’t something you force into people, it will make them hate it. It’s just a hobby, either you do it or you don’t. It makes people dumb? Ok. But you can’t force soul-searching (or any other reason to read a book) into someone.

I think that maybe events and other gatherings for readers would be good, people who are searching for something to fill their emptyness but don’t know what yet may get into books (or any other thing).