There's a rather interesting idea in this article: > January 8 2023 was not a new coup attempt as is most often depicted, but the desperate, failed last stand

There's a rather interesting idea in this article: > January 8 2023 was not a new coup attempt as is most often depicted, but the desperate, failed last stand of the one fomented and consolidated between 2013 and 2018. That sentence links to this article: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0094582X231213614 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0094582X231213... I deeply appreciate their discussion of possible US interests associated with it and the military dictatorship of the last century. I wonder what their take on Enéas Carneiro is. Not really a surprise to see evidence of US interference. Always assume the US is meddling at all times. Assume the same of other countries. I'm not at all convinced Lava Jato was straight up fabricated as they claim. They went completely overboard with that conclusion. The case and evidence was thrown out but that does not by itself falsify the evidence. I think the likely truth is they were all corrupt to the bone which gave the americans buttons to push and they found brazilians willing to push the buttons for them. They probably just spied on us via their global surveillance apparatus, handed over everything they found to their brazilian allies and watched their problems solve themselves. The authors try really hard to frame the extremely poor reputation of brazilian politicians as the result of some CIA psychological operation. That's completely detached from reality. They really are that corrupt. I've seen it. I've been personally affected by it. You don't need some convoluted psyop to destroy public trust in these "representatives". Living here is enough to do that. Instead of bemoaning the US's exploitation of that corruption to "deal a fatal blow to brazilian corporations", they should try not being irredeemably corrupt instead. Alternatively, they should try to avoid signing international accords that have the chance to backfire on them. Such as this one. If you're corrupt, why in god's name would you sign an anticorruption deal with the US? Makes no sense. That happened when I was a kid so I don't remember the context.