The scandalous smokescreen represented by the refusal of the Brazilian Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) to recommend the use of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine and the technical veto, minutely detailed in a report prepared by impartial experts committed to science , hides something that understandably escapes the knowledge of the Brazilian public.
By Fabio Reis Vianna
Accustomed to accepting explanations endorsed by authorities on the subject and used to understanding the reality of things from an internal prism, Brazilian society has not yet realized the historical crossroads in which our country finds itself involved, and that this has a lot to do with the major dispute of the great global systemic game of this new century, which appears violent and without clear rules (that is to say, without any rules at all).
At the end of the tragic year 2020, Jake Sullivan launched a tweet urging Europeans to act together in the face of China s worrying economic behavior.
Today s National Security Advisor to the newly sworn-in Democratic administration thus gave the first signs of what the Joe Biden administration would look like to the traditional allies of the United States.
Sullivan s words not only confirm the use of Twitter as an efficient and routine diplomatic instrument of global scope, but also inaugurate the rhetoric that should shape what some analysts already call the Biden Doctrine.
The aggressive attitude of the Trump administration, which in the end revealed itself concretely in pure rhetoric - since surprisingly Trump, in his own words, was the first president in decades that did not initiate new wars - was certainly not a point out of the curve in the impositive conduct and with imperial bias that the United States has been deepening uninterruptedly since 1991.
The risk that haunts the great powers: the ghost of rebellions
Long before Donald Trump was elected, the United States, in instituting the war on terror, practically tore apart the fantasy of liberal cosmopolitanism
By Fabio Reis Vianna
In a recent article published in the American magazine Foreign Affairs, Christorpher Layne, professor of international relations at the University of Texas, defends the thesis that a hegemonic war between the United States and China, if tensions escalate at the current pace, is not unlikely.
In his article The Return of Great-Power War, the author argues that the intensification of geopolitical competition between the two powers, despite the prevailing view in academic circles, would have explosive potential if we analyze the scenario in the light of history.