Lula’s Gift to Bolsonaro
The Brazilian president's attacks on Israel reinforce political polarization and give the opposition room to breathe.
RIO DE JANEIRO—To paraphrase the famous quote by Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz, you could say that foreign policy in the 21st century is the continuation of domestic politics by other means. It’s impossible to truly understand the controversy that played out last week between Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the government of Israel without understanding its internal effects, in both nations. Thanks to the immediacy that social media provides, nowadays international trips, photos with foreign leaders and opinions on other countries’ affairs have become...
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