FROM THE CHESSBOARD IN PLAY
Exactly two years ago the Palestinian Islamic terrorists of Hamas, from Gaza, invaded Israel, massacred more than a thousand people, took hostage and provoked a destructive and defensive anger of Israel. The week to remember the dead, wounded and all in this conflict of hatred, which puts human rationality in check, even with millennial civilizations. Negotiations for the end of the conflict are underway as well as the announcements of Nobel Prize, inventor of dynamite, in the areas of science and literature granted by the Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Next, the Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded by the Norwegians and the White House occupant is eager for the peace agreement in Gaza to be concluded and he can be awarded the prize. As builders of alliances, bridges and under the star of peace and love, it was the conversation between Trump and Lula. How the conversation was in fact, few know, but it was on the day, time and with the agenda that the Americans wanted. It was also like that with the Prime Minister of Canada, only it was live at the White House. Simple as that, it's the White House that determines how things are and how they look.
But in front of the White House there is the Congress, where they don't understand to close the budget. A brutal game between the Republicans in power and the Democrats in the opposition. And with that comes the closure of several government agencies, even parks and museums, layoffs and chaos in public administration. And more the military intervention in public security in big cities, which the White House is carrying out, with the hunt for illegal immigrants, you see that solving the tariff problem with Brazil is not exactly the number one priority of the American President.
So, looking at the chessboard, you have two kings, and other figures. While not making checkmate, the figures move, disappear from the board, depending on the game one can even come back, that is, both parties are playing. There is also a simultaneous game, a single player, who plays with countless others. By the way, what's happening now: Trump against everyone.
And among all of them, we have the fall of the fourth Prime Minister of France in two years, in addition to the conviction of former President Sarkozy for electoral corruption. The French crisis, remember the sixties, deeply affects the European Union. It weakens, at a time when the conflict in Ukraine does not seem to end and the European economy has lost competitiveness. And of course it will affect the agreement between Mercosur and the EU.
The Pope visiting Turkey and Lebanon, it's surprising. But, being elected the first woman for the new head of the Japanese government, it is much more. And the continuous attacks on drug trafficking boats off the Venezuelan coast by the US are a worrying sign, because this will only increase. And it's with our neighbor.