I'm surprised at the mention of Brazil as a future "great enemies of the rules based international order & the free world". Brazil is a very western country (al

I'm surprised at the mention of Brazil as a future "great enemies of the rules based international order & the free world". Brazil is a very western country (although a poor one), with culture and institutions that are basically copies of various European/EUA counterparts (although not as stable/strong). It has a very liberal constitution, a very liberal "elite", and a people that looks up to USA and Europe (the left wants to become like Europe, the right like the USA, no-one wants to become Russia or China). So IF it ever grows to greatness, it will most probably be a great ally to the free world, no a great enemy. Unfortunately the most probable scenario is that it won't achieve neither, instead it will probably crawl along in a middle ground fail to launch state, forever sort-of poor, sort-of irrelevant (but still mostly as a weak ally instead of a weak enemy). Yes, the election of the current president temporarily pointed Brazil in a different direction (just like the Trump election in the USA), but it is just a blip that Brazil will soon leave behind (like the USA left behind the Trump presidency). Edit: also, Brazil is 0% imperialistic, has absolutely no territorial ambitions, fairly good relations with all its neighbors. A military that is very defense/deterrence focused, with the only foreign deployments being a few official UN peacekeeping missions.