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[–]VacaLeitera767 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Brazil - news media (excluding smaller left-wing and a few Bolsonarista outlets) is overwhelmingly Americanist and thus anti-Russian with the narrative completely dominated by the same libcon stuff you see in Europe and the US. The majority of the political establishment also sucks up to the West. Ukrainian flags were on display on public billboards all over my city a few weeks ago. The results are predictable - most regular people have bought the default narrative that Putin is the bad guy, although very few actually care about it.

The government tries to maintain a more neutral stance because the agribusiness sector is heavily dependent upon Russian fertilizer imports. Also, Bolso feels alienated from western leaders and has been betrayed by the rats of the CIA and by the US government (who are funding hostile globohomo ideology and oppositionist "new left" movements inside Brazil despite the most pro-US president in history - talk about being a shitty ally) and so he himself now tries to stay on friendly terms with Putin.

Funnily enough, the place where you will find a lot of outspoken Russia sympathizers is left-wing political parties as well as universities, which are dominated by the Maoist-Trotskyist-Stalinist far-left. (although recently the younger crowd has been abandoning the old soviet-bolivarian ways and leaning more towards spewing wokeness and covert CIA talking points - to them, Russia is "fascist" and a threat to LGBTQ rights and to the existence of Trans people, which is all they care about). Lula (left-wing leader) while in the presidency had taken a third-worldist stance, generally friendly to China and Russia, but is now walking on a thin line trying to please both his commie base and globohomo media, NGOs and the US regime, whose support he needs to beat Bolsonaro in the October elections.

[–]Hates__PeachPeach Leftists Hate 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In Brazil, the Marxist Left is also being replaced by the 'progressive' Left?

I'm hearing people from Eastern Europe saying the exact same thing in their own countries.

[–]Rakean93Identitarian socialist[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Very interesting, I don't get to know much about Brazil. I would have assumed a more overtly pro Russia stance, but probably Bolsonaro isn't really able to control the media.

About the left-right pro-russia alliance however we are experiencing the same thing. It's a liberal/non-liberal divide, not a left/right one.