/ world today news/ The tour of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in South America, followed by successful negotiations with the leaders of Brazil, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba, forced the American press to accept the fact that Washington is losing its previous influence on the continent.
The Russian minister’s talks with his South American colleagues showed that the region, together with Russia, is for the establishment of a fair multipolar world order based on indivisible security.
The recent visit of Brazilian President Lula da Silva to China made clear Rio de Janeiro’s reluctance to blindly follow the anti-Russian and anti-China policies of Washington and Brussels. As the largest country in South America, Brazil strives to take a leading position among the countries of the Global South.
To do so, it must express a clear rejection of US hegemonic aspirations. Lula da Silva did this by announcing his own plan to resolve the Ukrainian crisis. Regarding the war in Ukraine, he said: “The United States must stop promoting war and start talking peace, the European Union must start talking peace. Above all, it is necessary to persuade those countries that supply weapons, which promote war, to stop doing so.”
Thus, Brazil became the second country in the world, after China, to propose its own project for a peaceful settlement of the conflict, in defiance of US calls to continue the fight to the last Ukrainian.
Brazil’s geopolitical and economic potential does not allow it to remain in the shadow of Western powers any longer. It occupies the fifth largest area in the world, territorially enough to accommodate almost all of Europe, and is considered by its former metropolis, Portugal, as a springboard for the revival of the former influence of Lisbon in South America.
However, Brazil can do without Lisbon, starting to strengthen its own influence rather than that of Portugal. Now the image of Brazil is becoming recognizable around the world, thanks to the explosive growth of the popularity of Brazilian jiu-jitsu on the planet – the same calling card of the country as savat is to France or hockey is to Canada. Brazil’s sporting authority is growing in parallel with its political one.
On the way to raising its own foreign policy status, Brazil must become a power that geopolitically rationalizes the South American continent.
The Argentine philosopher and geopolitician Prof. Alberto Buela points out the presence of several geopolitical vectors in the South American space. From Brazil – to Santiago and Bogotá, from Argentina – to Lima and to Caracas, crossing the Brazilian vector. The main Chilean vector to Quito and thence to San Jose intersects the Brazilian and Argentine vectors, turning the region into a tangled series of power lines. Paraguay and Uruguay do not play a special role in view of the fact that their politics have always depended on Brazilian-Argentine differences.
It is appropriate to recall the words of the late President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez: “Venezuela is a geopolitical bridge between the Caribbean, the Amazon and the Andes, with an extraordinary geopolitical advantage. Venezuela does not border the Caribbean Sea to the north as we were taught as children, no. Venezuela borders the Dominican Republic to the north. Venezuela is bordered to the north by the United States of America and the associate state of Puerto Rico. Venezuela borders to the north with the Netherlands, Venezuela borders across the Caribbean with France, the so-called overseas territories, and we have an interesting geopolitical position.”
Without cooperation with Venezuela, as well as Argentina and Peru, it will be difficult for Brazil to become a regional leader. That is why Prof. Buela set out “the theory on a diamond” with contingents Brazil – Buenos Aires – Lima – Caracas. This would create a large geopolitical space with access to both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. This space will have large human resources and will be culturally and linguistically homogeneous.
For this to happen, Brazil does not need the tutelage of Portugal. On the contrary, Lisbon will withdraw Rio de Janeiro from such a project, as it is a traditional partner of the Anglo-Saxons.
Portuguese geopolitics pays great attention to the so-called a large strategic triangle Angola – Mozambique – Brazil. The affiliation of these countries to Lusofonia makes Portugal a significant regional player. If Lisbon does not maintain its presence within this triangle, it will have to retreat to rear positions and settle for a smaller strategic figure – a small strategic triangle: mainland Portugal – Azores – Madeira. Preventing the consolidation of the influence of other countries in the big triangle is the first geopolitical challenge for Portugal in a changing world.
Brazil is now at the beginning of the path on which it can expect to increase its influence within the great strategic triangle. Brazil itself, without the mediation of Lisbon, can develop cooperation with Angola and Mozambique. And she does. This, on the one hand, will increase Portugal’s attraction to the US and Great Britain.
On the other hand, however, the loss of planetary hegemony to the Anglo-Saxons is only a matter of time, and Brazilians, if they look to the future, need not worry about the strengthening of the Portuguese-Anglo-Saxon partnership. This will not save Portugal, the US or the UK from the coming multipolar world order.
The ideal situation for Rio de Janeiro would be to superimpose the “diamond theory” on the concept of the grand strategic triangle, with Brazil gaining leadership within the Rio de Janeiro-Luanda-Maputo geopolitical axis.
Such a configuration would have access to three oceans at the same time – the Pacific, the Atlantic and the Indian, significantly reducing the influence of Portugal in the so-called Pink belt (the zone of colonial control of Lisbon from the coast of Angola to the coast of Mozambique, which the Portuguese dreamed of in the 19th century), thereby indirectly weakening the positions of Washington and London in these latitudes.
Translation: EU
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