The Right Loves the Jew

For generations politicos have taken as read that the right has a Jewish Problem. Maybe at one time it did. I dunno. Pat Buchanan doesn't like Jews, which is not to say he's filled with Juden Haas. It just means he doesn't like Jews.*

We all have prejudices.

The right no longer has a Jewish Problem. The Times of Israel tells us:

Brazil’s incoming president Jair Bolsonaro pushed back against critics and feted burgeoning ties with Israel Thursday, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made his way to Brasilia for the new leader’s swearing in.

Populists leaders, be they Bolsinaro, Le Penn, Farage, Salvini, etc, etc, are nationalists. Israel has certainly become a nationalist state, so of course other nationalists admire her.

She has a heck of a wall too! 

Bush the Younger supported Israel throughout the 2nd Intifada, walked out of the 2001 Nazi UN conference on racism, marginalized Arafat, and OK's Israel's attack on the Syrian nuclear complex.

Trump moved the embassy to Jerusalem, a decision overwhelmingly supported of the GOPs.

Since at least the 1980s the right in America has been moving toward Israel, especially the religious right. We encountered this first hand during our late 90's sojourn in Washington. Young Republicans from Texas, Tennessee and the like were fascinated by our Judaism and by Israel. Today conservative Christians see it as their religious duty to support the people of the book.

*That's d'accord, we here at William Stroock dot blogspot dot com don't like Maritime Canadians, South Jersey, and anyone from the town of Verplank, NY-freaking' pointers.

Let's Start the Bolsonaro Presidency with a War

Breitbart tells us that Colombia wants Brazil to Venezuela:

On Tuesday, the Brazilian newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo published a report citing diplomatic sources within the Colombian government who said President Iván Duque would be willing to support an invasion led by incoming Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro if he decided to do so.

The drums of war are beating in South America.

[Narrator: No, they aren't].

Ok, probably not.

But what else does one do about a once decent nation run into the ground by a mob of socialist kleptocrats now destabilizing the entire region.

If that's one's standard why not invade Detroit?

Brazil has a serious military, as does Colombia.

We're trying to think of another case where someone just up and invaded another country because the dictator pissed them off.

[Narrator: Really?]

History suggests 'humanitarian' invasions are a bad idea. Remember Somalia? Total assholes, according to PJ O'Rourke.

One of the more bizarre wars we've ever written about, in 1978 Uganda, backed by Libya, invaded Tanzania. Idi Amin and Colonel Khadafy... that's too much dictatorial personality for one war. After the Tanzanian army stopped the Ugandans they invaded Uganda and ousted Amin. So there's regime change for you. 

If your looking for a war in South America, we've always wondered why Chavez-Maduro didn't gin up some kind of controversy about the Dutch owned islands just off the Venezuelan coast and give us Falklands II.

The Dutch would kick their asses, though.

Tropical Trump

In Brazil Jair Bolsonaro is the Tropical Trump.

The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald gives a very interesting talk about Bolsonaro, in which he argues that the president elect is less Trumpian and more military dictator:

Whatever Bolsonaro may be, Greenwald show's that he is a gigantic middle-finger to the international elite and Globalism.

Personally we here at WilliamStroock.blogspot.com have no problem with Bolsonaro's rhetoric. 

Torturing commies? What's the problem? We say take those commie bastards for a helicopter ride.

Anyway. There's one other reason we like Bolsonaro, he's moving the Brazilian Embassy to Israel!

By the way, in Castro's Folly, Brazil plays a major role in the invasion of Cuba.