from Western powers - it's clearly a right wing coup

I remember Obama's comment on the CIA's "playbook" (if "A" happens then we do "B&quot and no one really questioning it before, he's taken a hands off approach on everything and refused to intervene. And where he has, its been indirectly. Which has pissed off many "allies"...and I like it.

We've gotten involved in way too many coup's, regime changes, etc. so much so, and with so many black eyes, we're going to have steaks on our eyes for at least a decade.

You know its gotten out of hand when our "allies" have an expectation of us intervening and paying for it (with money and blood).

Dilma made this mess for herself...

And conflating a "no confidence" vote with a "coup" is silly, no matter how many times it gets repeated...

Brazil is a presidentialist republic, not a parlamentarist one.

Presidents don't get removed by "confidence vote".

And leaders get removed by them all the time... They just aren't officially called "no-confidence" votes.

See: Brexit

... United Kingdom is a parliamentary monarchy.

There is no such a thing as a "no-confidence" or "quasi no-confidence" vote in Brazil.

To remove a president, there must be a crime.

I never saw anyone denying the law was broken.

The only real discussion was over if something this relatively minor was worthy of impeachment

Remember?

I won't comment on the validity of the charges, I do not know, but the process was legal, as far as I know.

Frankly, we could face the same thing here under the right circumstances.

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