Afghanistan

Most people criticizes Joe Biden. But what strategic advantages could the US get from staying in Afghanistan? Throwing huge amounts of precious resources to keep an unsustainable position (and extremely fragile Afghan governmental institutions)? Better to retreat, assume losses and refocus. That is actually true leadership. Let's not forget US' true test is not on Afghanistan, but considerably more to the East...

A tweet from Ian Bremmer on climate change

 "I think holding warming to 2 or 2.5C is unlikely, and we're likely to hit 3.5C, because I'm a political scientist, looking at responses of countries around the world.

China & India are trying to catch up to our living standards."

Ian Bremmer

Different

Most Portuguese have a really hard time distinguishing between Government, State and Country, and that is at the root of a Constitutional Democracy. It is like living permanently on a XVIIIth century absolutist country - but on the XXIst one. 

Social Media

To have conversations (even through Twitter) with intelligent people that have different opinions, helps me to have better, clearer, more structured ideas. Thank you.

Refreshing news coming from Singapore

Singapore is presenting a path to a new normal, in which Covid19 is not an exceptional pandemic, but a regular highly infectious disease. This paper provides a way through to the future - and will be an inspiration and a debatable theme in the months to come. We need our lives back.

All eyes are on the inflation rate

Two very good articles (in Portuguese) in Publico, about the inflation surge that is starting to creep in our economies:

- a very good interview with Ricardo Reis, a Portuguese economist;

- a status article on EU and US.

Brazil 2021

Brazil's main problem is not Bolsonaro. Nor Lula. Brazil's main problem is a society that positions itself to only choose between Bolsonaro or Lula.