O BRASIL DEVERIA TER UMA BOMBA ATÔMICA?

Summary

Gunther Rudzit argues Brazil should not pursue nuclear weapons, citing prohibitive costs, and uses Russia's invasion of Ukraine to explain how nuclear status enables aggressive powers. He warns that China will eventually invade Taiwan and is expanding its nuclear arsenal, pushing the world into a third nuclear era and a new arms race. He also highlights Mark Carney's Davos warning that the globalized order has ruptured and middle powers must cooperate or be on the menu.

• Brazil's nuclear bomb proposal is rejected by the guest on budgetary and military-capacity grounds.
• Russia's nuclear arsenal is seen as the key factor enabling its invasion of Ukraine.
• China/Taiwan is identified as the next major geopolitical hotspot, with an expected Chinese invasion.
• China is expanding its nuclear warheads from roughly 200 to about 1,000.
• All nuclear arms-control agreements have been abandoned, opening a new arms race.
• The guest frames today's world as a rupture: globalization is over and international law has lost force.
• Middle powers are urged to cooperate diplomatically because great powers will use force.