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U.S. tariffs on Brazilian goods jumped to 50% on Wednesday, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told Reuters in an interview that he saw no room for direct talks now with U.S. President Donald Trump that would likely be a "humiliation."

Brazil is not about to announce reciprocal tariffs, he said. Nor will his government give up on cabinet-level talks. But Lula himself is in no rush to ring the White House.

"The day my intuition says Trump is ready to talk, I won't hesitate to call him," Lula said in an interview from his presidential residence in Brasilia. "But today my intuition says he doesn't want to talk. And I won't humiliate myself."

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[–] moitoi@piefed.social 36 points 1 day ago

This guy has more balls than an entire continent. Lots of countries should learn from him and how you handle the orange.

[–] absquatulate@lemmy.world 83 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Finally, a sane fuckin approach to the tarriff madness. But it's probably due to them exporting to the US a lot less than what they're importing.

On another note, I really hate that trump's buffoonery is helping brics. They used to be just a bunch of greedy autocrats but now this asshole is giving them common ground to stand on.

[–] mgnome@piefed.social 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You know, it would actually make sense for "global South" countries to be in some organization and look out for each other, and I hate so much how BRICS pretends to be just that, especially with Russia and China.

[–] biotin7@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

You do know Brazil, India & China is a part of that & then there's BRICS+

[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Wow, someone that is actually acting like a world leader instead of just bending over in advance and making a fool out of themselves.

Watching people like Keir Starmer around Trump is painful and I hope he loses sleep over how much of an embarrassment he is. And if I remember correctly, Starmer literally bent over for him at the G7 summit. Or when Starmer was talking during Trump's visit last week and Trump literally said "enough" while he was talking and Starmer just shut up.

Edit: I was wrong about the second one. Apparently it was back in February and in context it was actually addressed towards the reporter that asked a question and not Starmer. See? Propaganda works both ways. :)