Opinion: Lula’s Foreign Minister strongly implied that Putin would be arrested if he visits Brazil

(Opinion) Lula is truly a liberal-globalist who voluntarily surrendered his country’s objective national interests to the West out of ideological solidarity.

The same man who legendarily co-founded BRICS almost a decade and a half ago has backstabbed one of this same multipolar group’s fellow founding fathers upon ordering his Foreign Minister to strongly imply that his counterpart will be arrested if he visits Brazil.

Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira‘s latest interview sent shockwaves worldwide after the top diplomat of this BRICS country very strongly implied that Russian President Vladimir Putin would be arrested if he set foot on this South American state’s soil.

He reaffirmed to Metropoles in an interview that “Brazil is part of the ICC, the International Criminal Court, which we respect and follow” when asked about that partially recognized and highly controversial body’s arrest warrant against the Russian leader.

This top diplomat added, “Any travel, any presence of [President Putin] in a country that is a member of the International Criminal Court can lead to complications, I have no doubt.”

There’s no other way to realistically interpret his words than ominously suggesting that he’d order the security services to detain that world leader if he ever visits Brazil.

While casual observers might be shocked by this stance, it fully aligns with President Lula da Silva’s new worldview.

Since his imprisonment, this BRICS co-founder has recalibrated his approach to International Relations in a way that very closely aligns Brazil with the US nowadays.

As proof of this, Lula condemned Russia’s special operation in a joint statement with Biden during his trip to DC in early February, after which he ordered his diplomats to vote in support of a fiercely anti-Russian resolution at the UN calling for Moscow to immediately withdraw from all the territory that Kyiv claims as its own, including Crimea.

This was followed up by Lula calling Zelensky. During that time, it was revealed that they discussed the latter’s so-called “peace formula,” which includes the creation of a “special tribunal” for prosecuting Russians.

A few weeks later, the Brazilian leader lied by claiming that this conflict is “over small things”, which occurred on the same day his Deputy Representative to the UN expressed annoyance at Moscow discussing Russophobia at a Security Council meeting dedicated exclusively to this scourge.

This sequence of events leaves no doubt that Brazil is politically against Russia in the New Cold War despite still officially remaining interested in exploring the expansion of mutually beneficial economic cooperation.

That explains why its Foreign Minister hinted that President Putin would be arrested if he went to Brazil, thus proving once and for all that Lula is truly a liberal-globalist who voluntarily surrendered his country’s objective national interests to the West out of ideological solidarity.

It’s no wonder that Color Revolution mastermind George Soros so enthusiastically endorsed this newly re-elected and now three-time leader during his speech at the Munich Security Conference last month. 

In his words, “Many other regional powers can influence the course of history. Brazil stands out. The election of Lula at the end of last year was crucial…Brazil is on the front line of the conflict between open and closed societies…[Lula] will need strong international support”.

Observers should no longer be under any illusions about Lula’s grand strategy, which aims to align Brazil more closely with the US-led West’s Golden Billion instead of the Sino-Russo Entente or the informally Indian–led Global South amidst the impending trifurcation of International Relations.

Nevertheless, Vieira also spoke highly about China in his latest interview ahead of his and Lula’s upcoming trip to the People’s Republic next week, proving that they haven’t completely sold out.

This approach leaves the possibility of Brazil attempting to balance between the Golden Billion’s US leader with whom Lula has politically aligned himself against Russia and the Sino-Russo Entente’s Chinese economic engine.

However, it remains unclear how successful this will ultimately be.

In any case, there’s no doubt that Lula opposes Russia’s special operation and tasks Vieira with lying to the non-Western community about the reasons why to distract from Brazil’s rapid alignment with the US.

In his latest interview, that top diplomat said, “Brazil condemned the invasion of Russia, and it could not be otherwise. This is even one of the constitutional precepts that guide foreign policy.”

“This is in the initial articles of the Constitution, which establishes, among other things, international law, human rights, territorial integrity, and the peaceful settlement of disputes. Brazil could not fail to condemn the invasion of Ukrainian territory.”

This is a misleading interpretation of his country’s primary legal document.

The argument can compellingly be made that Brazil should have abstained from all anti-Russian resolutions at the UN because Kyiv’s violation of its Russian population’s human rights and former President Petro Poroshenko’s admission that the Minsk Accords for ending his country’s then-civil war were never meant to be implemented contradict Article 4’s guiding foreign policy principles.

These mandate Brazil to formulate its international position based on the “prevalence of human rights” and the “peaceful resolution of conflicts”, both principles violated by supporting Kyiv at the UN after that fascist regime went against these two concepts as was previously explained.

By twisting these ideas around to justify taking a partisan stance against Russia, Vieira is participating in the latest Hybrid War on Brazil aimed at misleading the ruling party’s base about Lula’s US-aligned policies.  

The same man who legendarily co-founded BRICS almost a decade and a half ago has backstabbed one of this same multipolar group’s fellow founding fathers upon ordering his Foreign Minister to strongly imply that his counterpart will be arrested if he visits Brazil.

This ominous signal will likely preclude President Putin’s participation in their organization’s 2025 summit that’s supposed to be held in that country, which risks handicapping its impact to benefit the US’ divide-and-rule interests.