This is not a new world report. I'm John Bachelor with Professor Evan Ellis of the U.S. Army War College.

Elon Musk is not, to my knowledge, resident in the Americas.

However, he is making a big splash in Brazil.

The second most populous state in all of the Americas, a very powerful actor worldwide.

Alexander De Morice, a member of the Supreme Court,

has condemned Musk, has condemned X,

used to be known as Twitter, and as seeking to censor part of it,

Musk's response was the usual Musk, you know, show me, I dare dare you and saying that losing all the advertising in Brazil was

worth it because this is principal now the largest story is that Alexander de Marais

we've seen before.

He's a member of the Supreme Court, very favorable to Lula de Silva.

Not only did that Supreme Court decide to release Lula de Silva from jail where he was serving many years for the corruption that is

in arguably damaging to the history of Brazil.

But also that Supreme Court is a driver in the persecution, the law fair persecution of Bolsonaro,

now disenfranchised from running in the next election and on and on and on his son, his friends, for heaven's sake, they might even

indict his dogs.

Professor, the Musk flap identifies that Brazil is a powerful actor when it comes to lawfare.

How do you measure this right now?

How does it help Mirise and the Supreme Court to make headlines with Musk?

Well, there's a couple of simultaneous things going on here.

One in a kind of international legal context, important to recognize that international companies like X formerly

Twitter anytime they do business in countries they subject themselves

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