Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said in China on Saturday that the US should stop “encouraging” the war in Ukraine and seek peace instead.
“The United States needs to stop encouraging war and start talking about peace. The European Union needs to start talking about peace so that we can convince Putin and Zelensky that peace is in the interest of everyone and that war is only interesting, for now, to the two of them,” Lula told reporters.
While in China, the Brazilian leader said he discussed an idea with Chinese President Xi Jinping to form a group of countries that seek peace in Ukraine to push for negotiations.
“I have a theory that I have already defended with Macron, with Olaf Scholz of Germany, and with Biden, and yesterday, we discussed at length with Xi Jinping. It is necessary to constitute a group of countries willing to find a way to make peace,” Lula said.
The US has discouraged peace talks throughout the war while flooding Ukraine with weapons. The Biden administration has also come out strongly against Beijing’s efforts to push for peace in Ukraine. The White House said it opposed any calls for a ceasefire ahead of Xi’s recent trip to Moscow.
During his visit to China, Lula also spoke out against the US dollar’s hegemony as the world’s reserve currency. “Why should every country have to be tied to the dollar for trade?… Who decided the dollar would be the (world’s) currency?” he said. Ahead of Lula’s trip, China and Brazil signed a deal to trade in their own currencies.
So, this is getting interesting… Our “great” Super Power, the US, seems to be falling out of favor, with other countries. Countries are now questioning what we do and how we do it (and why we do it)… “Super Power” status comes with some consequences.
It’s honestly nothing new, especially to S. American countries. It’s more like were losing our leverage as the dollar bleeds and we lose hegemony. China is giving countries a 2nd option that the USSR never conceived of. China goes straight to it. They’ll give you the money and make your executives rich without any demand for human rights or the rule of law. Just give them what they want, they’ll give you money, and let you sew what ever you want with it.
‘Encouraging’
wow you couldn’t make this sh*t up
Well, if he say ‘directly facilitating’, he’ll end up like Graffiti.
Right after Brazil’s Lula met with Xi Jinping, U.S. propaganda has suddenly discovered that he’s undemocratic. Soon there will be opposition rallies and we will read about Brazil’s poor human rights.
Thanks for letting me know that I misspelled
Gaddafi. I just noticed it and can’t fix it. Thanks, Disqus.
The Bidens don’t want peace, peace isn’t profitable. Wakup Lula. Your dealing with nihlists here.