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Trump's message to Putin and Xi: Largest US Air Force 'elephant walk' in modern history

2025-05-10

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The US Air Force rolled out dozens of top-line military aircraft in a pointed display of firepower at an airbase in Japan this week as Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping presided over Russia's Victory Day parade in Moscow.

It also came as Russia and China issued a joint statement condemning US President Donald Trump's plan to create a 'Golden Dome' missile defence system as 'deeply destabilising' and one that would risk 'turning space into a battlefield'.

A so-called 'elephant walk' took place at Kadena Air Force Base (AFB) on the island of Okinawa earlier this week, but images of the event emerged today - hours after Russia sent tanks, nuclear missiles and drones rolling through Red Square.

The procession in Okinawa showcased some of the most capable assets that American aviation has to offer.

Two dozen F-35A Lightning II stealth fighters and eight F-15E Strike Eagle multirole fighters took to the tarmac alongside a pair of Washington's coveted Patriot missile defence batteries.

The stunning selection of jets was accompanied by an RC-135 Rivet Joint signals intelligence aircraft, a Navy P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol, reconnaissance, and anti-submarine warfare aircraft, two Navy EA-18 Growler electronic warfare attack planes and three E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft.

The show of force was described by Chief Master Sgt. Brandon Wolfgang, the commander of 18th Wing stationed at Kadena AFB, as a 'message you can't ignore'.

A statement given by 18th Wing said the elephant walk was a 'testament to the lethality Kadena AB can leverage to deter adversarial aggression in the Indo-Pacific region'.

The impressive parade, which also saw six HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters and two MQ-9 Reaper drones on show alongside the aircraft, is said to be one of the largest ever conducted by USAF.

Following the elephant walk, Kadena AFB conducted three-day military drills this week, concluding today as Moscow hosted its own military procession as part of its celebrations to mark the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union's triumph over Nazi Germany in World War II.

More than 20 world leaders and Kremlin allies including China's Xi, Putin's right-hand man in Europe, Belarus' Alexander Lukashenko, and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva were in attendance at the Victory Day parade in Red Square.

Putin shared a warm handshake and posed for photos with Xi this morning, dispelling any illusion that efforts by US President Donald Trump to drive a wedge between the Eastern powers had succeeded.

The Russian and Chinese leaders nestled side-by-side to watch the parade in a show of unity after they issued a statement yesterday saying Trump's move to create a 'Golden Dome' missile defence system would be 'deeply destabilising' and would risk turning space into a 'battlefield'.

Putin and his guests, including several high-ranking North Korean military officials, watched on as hordes of soldiers goose-stepped to old marching songs and roared to their commanders before Russia's top brass.

They were followed by a huge procession of Russian military technology that saw dozens of tanks, S400 Triumf air defence missile systems and the gargantuan Yars intercontinental ballistic missiles roll past the Mausoleum of Vladimir Lenin.

As the parade concluded, Putin walked along the square to greet a long line of military commanders from Russia and former Soviet states before stopping to speak with a delegation of Chinese and North Korean armed forces officers.

Both Moscow and Pyongyang in recent weeks acknowledged for the first time that North Korean troops had fought alongside their Russian counterparts against Ukraine.

The festivities ended with Putin, Xi and other world leaders solemnly laying a bouquet of red flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the Eternal Flame in memory of the Soviets killed in World War II.

Several drones used to batter Ukraine, including the Lancet, Geran-2, Orlan-10 and Orlan-30 variants, were also shown off in the parade. A flight of Su-25, Su-30 and MiG-29 fighter jets and bombers later soared overhead trailing smoke in the white, blue and red of the Russian tricolour.

Russia's defence minister Andrey Belousov, who arrived in Red Square atop a convertible Russian Aurus government car, addressed and inspected the troops. They responded with a chorus of 'hurrah!', before Putin took to the stage to deliver his speech.

Putin declared that Russia will always remember and appreciate the contribution of US and European allies to victory in World War II.

But he went on to say he would never allow the 'true victors over Nazism to be slandered' and that Moscow would 'fight against the atrocities of the followers of Nazism', echoing the Kremlin's rhetoric that Russia is trying to 'de-Nazify' its neighbour.

'(Russia) has truth and justice on its side. The whole country, society and people support the participants of the special military operation,' Putin insisted, adding: 'We are proud of their bravery and determination, of the fortitude that has always brought us only victory.'

The Kremlin's so-called 'special military operation' is in fact the deadliest war in Europe since the conflict today's parade is commemorating, and Ukraine has called today's events in Moscow a 'parade of cynicism'.

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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: March 30, 2025

2025-03-31

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22.13 Ukrainian defenders continue to resolutely repel the enemy's attempts to advance deep into our territory, inflicting effective fire damage on them. Since the beginning of this day, 147 combat clashes have occurred. This was noted in the report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The enemy was most active in the Pokrovsky, Kursk, Toretsky and Limansky directions.

21.59 In Kherson, as a result of a drone attack by Russian troops, a civilian was injured. This was reported by the head of the Kherson MVA Roman Mrochko.

"The occupiers dropped explosives from a drone on a 66-year-old woman in the Dniprovsky district of Kherson. She had a traumatic amputation of her right foot," Mrochko noted.

Currently, doctors are providing her with the necessary assistance.

19.59 The Russian army carried out a targeted strike during the evacuation of residents of the Sumy border region. As a result of the shelling, a man was wounded.

The State Emergency Service medics provided first aid, after which the victim was transported in an armored vehicle and handed over to the medics.

19:39 As a result of another air strike by the Russian army in the center of Kupyansk, civilians were injured, there may be people under the rubble of a five-story building. This was reported by the head of the Kharkiv OVA Oleg Sinegubov.

18:11 In October 2022, American intelligence intercepted a conversation between Russian General Sergei Surovikin, where he considered the possibility of using nuclear weapons to stop the Ukrainian Armed Forces from advancing across the Dnieper. This was reported by The New York Times.

17:17 The crews of UAV operators of the Joint Rifle Brigade and marines destroyed heavy armored vehicles of the enemy in the Pokrovsk direction. This was reported by the operational-strategic group of forces Khortitsa.

Aerial reconnaissance promptly detected the movement of enemy tanks, and expert hits by kamikaze drones from our crew stopped the advance of enemy equipment during an attempt to break through in the area of responsibility," the statement noted.

As a result, the enemy assault was stalled before it even began. The enemy lost two tanks.

16:59 European leaders are discussing the possibility of deploying a military contingent in Ukraine to support security in the rear areas and strengthen the Ukrainian army, The Washington Post reports.

Paris and London plan to send a military mission to assess the possibilities of deploying forces and determine the necessary number of troops. Their role is expected to be to protect key facilities, provide logistical support and train Ukrainian troops.

15.34 During March 2025, the Air Force and Air Defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine dealt a crushing blow to Russian air attacks, destroying 4,043 enemy targets. This was the result of the systematic work of the Air Defense, as well as the active actions of the Ukrainian aviation and unmanned reconnaissance units. This was reported by the press service of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

During March 2025, the Air Defense of the Defense Forces destroyed 4,043 air targets:

1 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missile;

25 Kh-101/Kh-55SM

cruise missiles; 8 Kalibr cruise missiles;

1 Iskander-K cruise missile;

1 Kh-59/69 guided aircraft missile;

2,328 Shahed-type attack UAVs;

805 reconnaissance UAVs;

874 UAVs of other types.

It is noted that during March, the Air Force aviation carried out more than 580 aircraft operations, including about 200 for fire destruction and air support of troops and more than 320 for fighter air cover.

14.55 Kyiv provides all the information about the strikes carried out by the Russian army and expects a reaction from the US, Europe and all allies to this terror against Ukrainians. This was stated by President Volodymyr Zelensky.

"Russia is prolonging the war, and we provide our partners with all the information about the strikes carried out by the Russian army and what it is preparing for. We expect a reaction from America, Europe and all our allies to this terror against our people," the president emphasized.

13.45 Former Italian Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema said he carried out a diplomatic "secret mission" in China and Brazil at the request of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

According to D'Alema, the meeting with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was unsuccessful. In China, D'Alema had a substantive conversation with the head of the Chinese Communist Party's foreign policy department. The official presented a proposal for the creation of an international peacekeeping force similar to Kosovo.

13.20 American officials were furious over the successful attack by a Ukrainian missile on the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, the cruiser Moskva, about which they were not warned, according to a New York Times article.

American and Ukrainian naval officers were on a routine intelligence call when a notification appeared on their radar screens that the Russian cruiser Moskva had sunk.

According to an unnamed former senior US officer, the Americans responded with surprise, "Oh, it's Moscow! " while the Ukrainians said, " Oh, my God. Thank you. Goodbye ."

The publication writes that this strike on the Russian ship caused anger among American officials because the Ukrainians did not warn them about it, as well as surprise that Ukraine had missiles to destroy such a cruiser.

It also caused panic because the administration of former US President Joe Biden had no plans to allow the Ukrainians to attack "such a powerful symbol of Russian power."

12:16 The best guarantee of security for Ukraine will be the Ukrainian army. This was stated by Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski.

The Foreign Minister commented on the meeting of the leaders of the "coalition of the willing" held in Paris on March 27. The allied countries are considering the possible deployment of deterrent forces in Ukraine after the end of the war.

Sikorski said Poland would be in this coalition, but not physically in Ukraine itself. In his opinion, the biggest, best guarantee of Ukraine's security is "a brave and well-equipped Ukrainian army."

11.55 The number of victims in Kharkiv as a result of the night drone attack has increased. 35 people were injured, including five children. 13 people were hospitalized, one teenage girl is in serious condition.

In Shevchenkivskyi district, 27 residential buildings were damaged. The market, the registry office, the House of Projects, the college, and the dormitory where IDPs live were damaged. More than 10 civilian cars and garages burned down.

The Kholodnohirskyi district of the city was also hit. There, 32 private houses were damaged, and more than 120 windows were knocked out.

11.20 The resistance movement in the Kherson region destroyed a Russian army truck with an electronic warfare system installed on it.

The Lorandit electronic warfare system , which the occupiers used to suppress radio communications and conduct electronic reconnaissance, was destroyed.

10.45 A partisan from ATESH among the servicemen of the 80th brigade of the Russian Armed Forces told about the losses of the occupiers during the exercises on forcing water obstacles in the Kherson region. This was reported by the partisan movement ATESH.

It is noted that recruits are sent there from a training camp in Crimea to prepare for assaults on the Dnieper islands.

"The training is conducted in a tough regime - soldiers in full gear are loaded into a boat and driven at full speed along the Dnieper, as a result of which many fall out and drown. The commanders do not even try to save them. The number of dead Russian servicemen is already in the tens, but the training continues," they said at ATESh.

New arrivals are sent in small groups of 2-3 people to storm the islands. There they are simply thrown ashore with the task of fortifying themselves without cover and normal evacuation. But the tasks are not accomplished, and the Russian army continues to suffer losses.

09.20 At night, the Russians attacked with a ballistic missile and 111 Shahed-type attack UAVs and drone imitators of various types - 65 were shot down and another 35 were lost due to location.

As a result of the Russian attack, Kharkiv, Sumy, Odessa and Donetsk regions suffered.

08.55 Following the drone attack on the Dnieper on March 28, the number of victims has increased to 28, nine remain in hospital. This was reported by the head of the OVA, Serhiy Liysak.

"Dnipro is in mourning today for those killed in the Russian attack. During the latest one, four people lost their lives. Condolences to their families and friends," he wrote on Telegram.

08.30 Over the past 24 hours, 223 combat clashes have been recorded at the front, 93 of which were in the Pokrovsk direction. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

07.35 As of March 30, 2025, the total combat losses of Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine amounted to approximately 914,000 people (+1,510 per day).

04.44 Russian military attacked Kupyansk: buildings were destroyed and civilians were injured due to shelling. As a result of enemy strikes, a private house and an outbuilding on an area of 70 m² caught fire. A 54-year-old woman and a 55-year-old man were injured.

03.14 Former Minister for Strategic Industries Alexander Kamyshin, now an adviser to the President, said that Ukraine is now capable of producing 5 million FPV drones per year. According to the official, Ukraine already has manufacturers that are capable of producing more than 100 thousand kamikaze drones per month. And one of the domestic enterprises produces up to 4 thousand of such drones. There are currently more than 150 such manufacturers in Ukraine.

02:55 Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrsky reported that since the beginning of 2025, the Russian army's losses in automobiles and special equipment have reached almost 10 thousand units. According to him, the Defense Forces neutralize more than a thousand invaders and destroy hundreds of enemy vehicles every day. Since the beginning of the year alone, the total losses of Russian troops in automobiles and special equipment amounted to 9838 units.

01.15 Russian occupation forces are trying to expand the zone of active military operations in the Kharkiv region. This statement was made by the representative of the State Border Service of Ukraine Andriy Demchenko. According to him, one should be prepared for any developments on any section of the front.

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Caribbean-Latin America

Five soldiers arrested in Brazil for plotting to assassinate president

2024-11-20

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Five suspects in the attempted assassination of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Vice President Geraldo Alckmin in 2022 have been detained in Brazil. This was reported by the local publication G1.

On November 19, four special forces officers and one police officer were arrested by federal police on suspicion of attempting a coup. They are also accused of plotting to assassinate President Lula da Silva weeks before his inauguration.

The documents seized by police described a plan to shoot or poison Lula da Silva and Vice President Alckmin, then install National Security Adviser Augusto Heleno and former Defense Minister Braga Netto as leaders of the country and hold new elections, Reuters reports. According to the documents, the detainees also planned to kill one of the country's Supreme Court judges with an explosive device or poison.

The men involved in the coup attempt were special forces trained and planned to use “advanced military operational techniques” in an operation called “Green-Yellow Dagger” and then create a “crisis cabinet” of ministers, the report said. Before their arrest, the suspects were in Rio de Janeiro, where they were taking part in a mission to provide security for the G20 leaders’ meeting.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, on January 9, 2023, a state of emergency was declared in Brazil due to protests against the results of the presidential elections. Protesters stormed the buildings of Congress, the Supreme Court, and the presidential residence. More than 400 people were detained for participating in anti-government protests.

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Caribbean-Latin America

Brazil recalls ambassador to Israel: diplomatic source

2024-05-30

[GEO.TV] Brazil has recalled its ambassador to Israel, a diplomatic source told AFP Wednesday, ratcheting up tensions between the two countries over Israel’s war in Gaza.

The nearly eight-month-old conflict has soured Israel’s diplomatic ties with several nations, including Brazil, whose President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in February accused the country’s government of genocide.

Israel reacted furiously!!!, declaring the Brazilian leader persona non grata.

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Government Corruption

The Biden administration would rather align itself with Marxists than pro-Western Euro or Latin American leaders

2024-02-16

[Washington Examiner] Juan Gonzalez, who led the Biden administration’s curious policy of embracing anti-United States Marxist leaders in Latin America while making enemies of their pro-Western counterparts, has resigned his post as the National Security Council’s top hemispheric adviser.

Gonzalez will depart the NSC in March to spend more time with his children, an anonymous official told Bloomberg on Tuesday.

The resignation came a day after Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei, sent to the U.S. a seized Venezuelan cargo plane with ties to Iran, underscoring the folly of stiff-arming genuinely pro-American leaders while supporting those who may be leftist ideological allies of this White House but are arch-enemies of American national interests.

As the NSC’s senior director for the Western Hemisphere, Gonzalez has personified that approach.

"Gonzalez is the architect of the administration’s failed Venezuela policy as well as most of the politicized aspects of our current regional engagement," Andres Martinez-Fernandez, the Heritage Foundation’s top Latin American expert, emailed me Tuesday night. "Friends of the U.S. in the region will be glad to see him go."

Gonzalez has wooed Venezuela’s Marxist strongman Nicolas Maduro, Colombian President Gustavo Petro, a former member of the M19 terrorist armed guerrilla movement, and Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, another Marxist leader with an anti-American animus.
Pro-immigration, drug cartel and 'people trafficking' implied in the above para.
On a trip just this month to South America, Gonzalez again tried to sell the baffling idea that Colombia’s Petro would be not just the ideal intermediary between Maduro and the opposition he crushes on a regular basis, but also between Maduro and Washington.

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Caribbean-Latin America

Venezuela and Guyana to hold talks over disputed Essequibo territory

2023-12-11

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and Guyanese leader Muhammad Irfaan Ali will hold talks to resolve the territorial conflict between the two countries, the government of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines announced on December 9.

The meeting is planned at the site of the Caribbean state on December 14, the government clarified. The negotiations will take place under the auspices of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean Countries and the Caribbean Community.

The proposal for negotiations to Nicolas Maduro was made in a telephone conversation with the President of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and the Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Ralph Goncalves.

As Regnum reported , on December 3, a referendum was held in Venezuela on the official inclusion of Essequibo into the country. More than half of the voters, over 10.43 million people, took part in the voting. All five questions regarding Venezuela's position in the territorial dispute received more than 95% approval. A few days later, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro signed decrees to incorporate the Essequibo territory, disputed with Guyana, into his country.

Guyanese President Irfaan Ali said that the country's authorities intend to appeal to the UN Security Council, as they consider Venezuela's actions to integrate the disputed region, taken after the referendum, as a threat to national security.

The Russian Foreign Ministry called on Venezuela and Guyana to refrain from any actions that could unbalance the situation in the region and cause mutual damage to the two countries. Moscow opposed external pressure and interference in the affairs of the two South American countries, especially since in relations between them there are “sensitive issues that require caution from third countries,” the department emphasized.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

UN peacekeepers in Lebanon say the Israeli army fired on their patrol

2023-11-26

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

[Regnum] A patrol of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) was fired upon by the Israeli army in the south of the country. The press service of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon reported this on November 25 on its page on the social network.

“Today at around 12 noon, a UNIFIL patrol came under fire from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in the vicinity of Aytarun

...also spelt Aitaroun and Aytaroun. Hezbollah hang out there, which probably explains Israeli attention — something for UNIFIL command types to consider...

in southern Lebanon,” the statement said.

It is noted that as a result one of the vehicles of the UN Interim Forces was damaged, but no one was injured.

As Regnum reported , on November 22, IDF fighters attacked targets of the Lebanese Shiite organization Hezbollah in response to shelling from Lebanese territory. Several Lebanese drones were shot down by air defense systems.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Israel is using indiscriminate force in the Gaza Strip, leaving the enclave facing a humanitarian catastrophe.

The UN called the number of civilian casualties during the Palestinian-Israeli conflict staggering and unacceptable.

The organization's Secretary General Antonio Guterres is deeply shocked that in less than 24 hours, two UNRWA (UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees Agency) schools were attacked in the Gaza Strip. He called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.

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Caribbean-Latin America

Bolsonaro faces political ban at Brazil trial

2023-06-23

[The Nation (Pak)] A-Far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro risks losing his right to run for office for eight years, as Brazil’s electoral court begins delivering its ruling Thursday on charges stemming from his unfounded allegations against the voting system.

The Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE) is trying the former president on charges he abused his office and misused state media when, in July 2022, he convened foreign diplomats for a meeting in which he insisted Brazil’s electronic voting machines were susceptible to large-scale fraud.

Armed with a PowerPoint presentation but no hard evidence, Bolsonaro spent nearly an hour making his case to the assembled ambassadors at the presidential palace briefing, which was broadcast live on public TV.

Prosecutors say the event violated electoral law, given that it was held in the middle of Bolsonaro’s polarizing campaign for Brazil’s October 2022 elections, which he narrowly lost to his leftist arch-rival, now-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

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Caribbean-Latin America

Debunking The Media's Lies About Events in Brazil - Dave Rubin (very good stuff)

2023-01-19

[YouTube] Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks to Matthew Tyrmand about what is really going on with the Brazil protests where Bolsonaro supporters swarmed the congress in Brasilia; how Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has used violence to silence any dissent of his administration; why Brazilians don’t trust the results of the Brazilian presidential election where Jair Bolsonaro lost; how Alexandre de Moraes has used the Brazil supreme court to consolidate immense unchecked power; and much more.

43 minutes long, so get comfortable, dear Reader.

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Caribbean-Latin America

Brazil Top Court to Investigate Bolsonaro Role in Brasilia Riots

2023-01-15

They sure like rioting down in Brazil.

[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Brazil’s Supreme Court is set to investigate the ultra-right-wing former president Jair Bolsonaro over riots and looting of government buildings in Brasilia this week.

In a decision late Friday, the court approved a request from the office of the prosecutor general to include Bolsonaro in a rapidly expanding investigation into the anti-democratic riots on January 8.

By doing so, "Bolsonaro would have publicly incited the commission of a crime," the prosecutor general said in a statement, accusing the former president of "instigation and intellectual authorship" of the riots.

The development came after Bolsonaro’s rioting supporters ransacked the presidential palace, the Supreme Court, and the Congress. Bolsonaro’s video went viral two days after the ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful attack but was later removed.

Bolsonaro has denied any involvement in the riots. In a memo published on Friday, Bolsonaro stated that he "had no relationship or participation in these movements", blaming infiltrators for the incidents.

For years, Bolsonaro has sought to cast doubt on the credibility of Brazil’s electoral system. He never confirmed the victory of the new president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and left for the United States two days before the inauguration of his successor.

Brazilian authorities are seeking to identify the criminal masterminds and financiers of the ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful riots that have many similarities to the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol.

Anderson Torres, who was Bolsonaro’s last justice minister, is wanted by the Supreme Court on charges of "collusion" with the rioters.

He is also accused of "inaction" in his last job as head of security in the capital Brasilia, which was the target of the destructive anger of the protesters.

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Caribbean-Latin America

After election loss, masses of Bolsonaro supporters storm Brazil’s Congress, Supreme Court; then police sweep in, arresting 170

2023-01-09

[IsraelTimes] In scenes resembling the events of January 6, 2021, in the US Capitol, masses of Brazilian supporters of defeated far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro are seen breaking into the country’s Congress building, presidential palace and Supreme Court

...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
In social media videos, many demonstrators are seen breaching the buildings, climbing on top of the Congress roof and breaking the glass in its windows, also vandalizing objects inside.

The dramatic scenes unfold following days of protests against the allegedly flawed election result, which returned left-winger Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to power.

Bolsonaro supporters have been protesting against Lula’s electoral win since October 30, blocking roads, setting vehicles on fire and gathering outside military buildings, asking armed forces to intervene.

Tweeted videos can be seen at the link. More here.
Subsequently:

Brazil police retake Congress, clear out buildings overrun by pro-Bolsonaro rioters

[IsraelTimes] At least 170 arrested as cops use tear-gas, water cannons in bid to gain control over Brasilia institutions stormed by far-right protesters refusing to accept election results

Brazilian security forces mounted a massive operation Sunday after hundreds of supporters of far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro stormed Congress, the presidential palace and the Supreme Court

...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
in what President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva condemned as a "fascist
...anybody you disagree with, damn them...
" attack.

After hours of all-out chaos at the seat of power in Brasilia — reminiscent of the January 6, 2021 invasion of the US Capitol building by supporters of then-president Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
, a Bolsonaro ally — security forces managed to reclaim the Congress building in the evening, AFP news hounds said.

A massive operation was still under way to evacuate the demonstrators from the Planalto presidential palace and the Supreme Court, with security forces using riot police on horseback, water cannon and tear-gas bombs fired from helicopters to fight them back.

Lula, who was in the southeastern city of Araraquara visiting a region hit by severe floods, signed a decree declaring a federal intervention in Brasilia, giving his government special powers to restore law and order in the capital.

"These fascist fanatics have done something never before seen in this country’s history," said the veteran leftist, 77, who took office a week ago after beating Bolsonaro in Brazil’s bitterly divisive
...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled...
October elections.

"We will find out who these vandals are, and they will be brought down with the full force of the law."

Police made 170 arrests, Brazilian media reported. TV images showed police ushering Bolsonaro supporters down the ramp from the presidential palace in single file.

The Senate security service said it had arrested 30 people in the chamber.

The chaos came after a sea of protesters dressed in the green and yellow of the flag flooded into Brasilia’s Three Powers Square, invading the floor of Congress, trashing the Supreme Court building and climbing the ramp to the Planalto.

Brasilia Governor Ibaneis Rocha fired the capital’s public security chief, Anderson Torres, who previously served as Bolsonaro’s justice minister.

The attorney general’s office said it had asked the Supreme Court to issue arrest warrants for Torres "and all other public officials responsible for acts and omissions" leading to the unrest.

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Cyber

Musk says 'possible' that Twitter gave preference to (pro-CCP) leftists during Brazil election

2022-12-06

SAO PAULO, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Twitter owner Elon Musk said on Saturday he thought it was "possible" that personnel at the social media firm gave preference to left-wing candidates during Brazil's election this year, without providing evidence.

Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter on Oct. 27, just days before Brazil's presidential second round runoff vote, when far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro was defeated by leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

"I've seen a lot of concerning tweets about the recent Brazil election," Musk wrote on Twitter when asked by a user about elections possibly "handled" by the company's previous management.
Who could possibly be behind such an effort (sarc off).

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