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Extending an Olive Branch

President of Brazil Lula da Silva remarked that the United States and its allies should focus on promoting peace in Ukraine instead of “encouraging war” by arming Ukraine at the end of his state visit to China.


“The United States and its allies should focus on promoting peace in Ukraine instead of ‘encouraging war’ by arming Kiev, Brazilian President Lula da Silva said on Saturday as he concluded a state visit to China, his country’s primary trading partner.



‘The United States needs to stop encouraging war and start talking about peace’, Lula told reporters in Beijing. ‘The European Union needs to start talking about peace’.


He added that, in doing so, world leaders might be able to ‘convince’ both Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Vladimir Zelenskyy that ‘peace is in the interest of the whole world’.


In contrast to many Western nations, neither Brazil nor China has imposed sanctions on Moscow following the onset of the conflict in Ukraine last year.


Prior to the trip, Lula, the left-wing leader who returned as Brazilian president after succeeding Jair Bolsonaro at the start of this year, had sought to position himself as part of a group that could mediate in the conflict. He did not, however, elaborate on the nature of any such talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping following their meeting on Friday.


CNN reported earlier this week that Beijing had requested the removal of issues surrounding Ukraine from the list of topics to be discussed by the two leaders.


‘It is important to have patience’, Lula suggested on Saturday, ‘But above all, it is necessary to convince the countries that are supplying weapons, encouraging the war, to stop’.


China has been a key trading partner for Brazil since 2009. In 2022 alone, Beijing imported close to $90 billion worth of Brazilian commodities such as soy, iron ore and petrol. Brazil is also the largest single market for Chinese products on the South American continent.


Lula’s comments on Ukraine, as well as the strengthening of economic ties with Beijing, are likely to draw the attention of Washington, with whom Brasilia has sought a closer relationship under his rule”. -RT


Amid the Russo-Ukrainian war, and given the history of the United States’ past imperial engagements, the rest of the world simply isn’t going to believe or adhere to the U.S. official narrative any longer.


Now that other countries in the Americas are poised to join Brazil in the BRICS alliance, with its expanding membership, the Sino-Russian lead economic block has gradually become larger and more powerful than the G7 alliance.


And, with China being Brazil's biggest trading partner, Lula’s administration declared last month that China and Brazil had reached a deal to trade in their own currencies, ditching the U.S. dollar as an intermediary.


Such deals tend to indicate that with more countries taking steps to free themselves of the economic chains imposed by the Petrodollar System that has served as the bedrock of world finance since the 1970s, America’s dominance over the global financial system and its ability to weaponize it against other nations that test alternatives to reduce the dollar’s hegemony, will soon cease to exist.