Former Brazilian President Accuses Zelensky of Using War for Fame – Investment Watch

by Martin Armstrong

Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who plans to run once more within the 2022 Brazilian Presidential Election, believes Zelensky is equally accountable for the continued battle. “I see the president of Ukraine, talking on tv, being applauded, getting a standing ovation by all of the [European] parliamentarians,” he stated when talking to Time. “This man [Zelensky] is as accountable as Putin for the battle.”

Lula believes Zelensky made a deadly misstep by failing to vow he wouldn’t search to hitch NATO. Moreover, he believes that he ought to have negotiated a settlement with Russia’s Putin lengthy earlier than the preventing started. “We needs to be having a critical dialog. OK, you have been a pleasant comic. However allow us to not make battle so that you can present up on TV,” Lula stated, claiming the Ukrainian president merely needs extra fame and a focus.  

Present Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has not condemned Putin’s actions.  Vice President Hamilton Mourão claimed, “Brazil was not impartial,” however Bolsonaro shortly corrected that assertion. “It’s my choice, however I wish to hear from people who find themselves truly ministers to cope with these points. We’re for peace, we wish peace. We traveled in peace to Russia. We had an distinctive interplay with President Putin,” he stated, stating that Brail is not going to be taking sides. Actually, Bolsonaro traveled to Russia per week earlier than the battle started and spoke extremely of his “good friend” Putin.

Whatever the West’s stance, Brazil doesn’t seem poised to enter the battle anytime quickly. Brazil is probably going extra taken with securing profitable offers with Russia now that they’ve been shunned from the worldwide financial system.