I'm John Batsu of my colleague Professor Evan Atlas of the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies

Institute.

The story so far in Brazil, the very powerful Louladus

Silva, three times elected president, has d'O safe to man named Maurice, who is

on the Supreme Court and who has political opinions that he acts upon using

the power of the court.

We have seen how he has led the perusal of the former Bolsonaro government and found it wanting.

Following that, there's been persecution, there have been arrests, there have been threats of arrests,

not only Bolsonaro, but all of his

cabinet, any of his friends we can imagine. That was then, this is now.

Maurice, empowered by the state, has declared that Musk Starling as well as X are not

acceptable. There are different versions of the not acceptable and what is

striking about this we left the story of artificial intelligence,

digital news in Venezuela in a state that is under extreme duress because of the threat of extra legal conduct by the regime.

We now move to Brazil where Lula de Silva is not in question.

He's a member of the bricks.

He's the prominent leader of many parts of the world, not just America's.

He's three times elected, he's grandfatherly, but Maurice, who does a good job of being a villain, has now taken on Musk.

Why?

Professor, was X threatening, was Starling threatening Maurice in some fashion that we can discern?

Why take on the richest man in the universe?

It feels like picking a fight with somebody who has what the old proverb was, barrels of ink.

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