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It emerged today that Brazil's Foreign Minister and Trump fan Ernesto Araújo for the first time asked his advisors on Sunday about how a Biden victory would impact the world. According to sources, Araújo had avoided considering the scenario of a Biden victory until very recently.
Considering that Biden was leading in the polls for months, blindly trusting in Trump's capacity to pull off a surprise victory without hedging your bets is a catastrophic error of judgement for a Foreign Minister of Brazil, which in many ways depends on strong ties to the US.
It suggests that Araújo probably lives within a radicalized bubble of pro-Trump news, where the US president's reelection was never in doubt. Indeed, a while ago he removed Brazil's largest newspaper from clippings that are sent to Brazilian embassies bc he didn't like their work
Such gross incompetence at the top of the Foreign Ministry not only inevitably damages Brazil's national interest -- it also shows that, unless Bolsonaro removes Araújo in a friendly gesture towards Biden, Brazil's behavior towards the US will potentially be far less predictable.
After all, imagine you're Ernesto Araújo, think Trump is the savior of the West, believe that globalists want to criminalize red meat & heterosexual relationships and that the covid-19 is a plot to impose communism. Even thinking about Biden's victory will be sacrilege, basically
Below the article by Folha de São Paulo's Ricardo Della Coletta https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/mundo/2020/11/ernesto-cobra-informacoes-de-orgaos-do-itamaraty-para-tracar-cenarios-com-biden.shtml
