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After Jair Bolsonaro did the gunpowder bravado, hinting that he could go from diplomacy to war with the United States under the future government of Joe Biden, Army commander Gen. Edson Pujol claimed that military force has no resources to defend the United States. country sovereignty edit
247 – The army commander, General Edson Pujol, said on Thursday (12) that the military force has no resources to defend the country.
The statement was made after President Jair Bolsonaro made the bravado of gunpowder, hinting that Brazil could go to war with the United States in the future government of Joe Biden, if he insists on sanctioning the country for the destruction of the Amazon. . He cited air defense as one of the points where the Army’s ability to improve.
In open contradiction with Bolsonaro, the Army commander ruled out that there was any real threat to Brazil and said that he has acted to prevent political parties from entering the barracks.
Nor did he agree with the use of the Army in carrying out tasks to combat environmental crimes in the Amazon. Instead, he advocated the creation of a National Guard, which would assume functions like this.
The information is State of S.Paulo. Pujol made the remarks during a ceremony at the Institute for the Reform of Relations between the State and the Company, which was attended by former Defense Ministers Raúl Jungmann and the Office of Institutional Security, General Sérgio Etchegoyen. “General Etchegoyen asked me if there was any country on our continent that could be a threat to Brazil. I say. Not today, but we don’t know in 3-4 years. That’s why we do our strategic planning ”.
When Jungmann asked him about the participation of the Armed Forces in politics, Pujol said: “What I have to say is that in these two years the Ministry of Defense and the three Forces have dealt exclusively and exhaustively with military matters. And he added that the Brazilian Forces are proportionally the smallest in the world in relation to the size of our territory and population and in relation to the geostrategic and economic importance of Brazil.
Pujol defended the Army’s departure from party politics. Don’t we get involved in political issues? “We are not involved in areas that do not concern us. We do not want to be part of the politics of the government or the National Congress, much less we want politics to enter our barracks.”
The general distanced himself from the generalized practice in the Bolsonaro government of taking office by the military in the government, pointing out that it is a decision “exclusive to the Executive.”
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