🇧🇷 Btw, I cannot understate just how important Renan Santos is. He is not a boomer reformer like Milei; he has Bardella-level "great man" potential. First-worldifying Brazil, militarizing, creating a tropical Occidental superpower - do we Occidentals realize what that means? We have lost the idea of civilizational struggle, "living space", etc., in large part because of the losses that we experienced in Algeria, Afghanistan, etc. At the same time, we have lost the idea of the civilizational struggle shifting in favor of European or European-adjacent countries: the idea of South Africa "getting nukes" or Argentina "becoming one of the richest countries in the world" sounds insane to us, because we have literally not been allowed to shift things in our favor for the last few decades. But we need to realize that Brazil first-worldifying would be incredibly good. Not only would the entire "resentful favela" element whither away, but it would massively expand the resource and geographical base of the Occident - which sounds cringey and basic, but it is literally relevant. Quantity will matter a lot more as global technological differences even out. Simultaneously, if Brazil became a superpower, it would not merely add "a superpower" on the Occidental side of the civilizational struggle. It would add a superpower which became a superpower in the current world order. What I mean is that it would not merely arithmetically "add to the strength" of the Occident. It would add a country which managed to: - Build state capacity in the current world order, - Achieve internal cohesion in the current world order, - Militarize in the current world order, And so on. In this sense, Brazil would qualitatively strengthen the Occident, too. Even if, technologically, e.g., France remained superior to it, Brazil - like Israel or Turkey - would be a country that has gotten past the oikophobia that defines the current world order. It would make use of the resources which it has much more efficiently, resolve its demographics through a National Modernist psychology (which is present in Israel, too) - and, unlike Israel or Turkey, it would actually be Occidental! Of course, Santos winning one election would not first-worldify Brazil, but his entire political being is directed toward this objective! He is not just a boomer reformer who wants to "fight socialism", or a boomer hardliner who wants to "fight crime"; he is a civilizationist who has surrounded himself with the young men who could achieve these things. Overall, I endorse Santos!