He stated that ideological preferences hinder and interfere in the Ministry of Defense and cites a case in which he was unable to sell ammunition to Germans because of Russia
The Minister of Defense, José Múcio Monteirosaid this Tuesday (8.Oct.2024) that the ideology and diplomatic positions of the president’s government Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) hinder the work of Defense. He declared that the population does not know what his ministry does and that there is “ideological traces” against the military.
“What is our biggest challenge? The absolute lack of knowledge of who we are and what we want to be. In recent years we have had a decline in defense investments of around 47%. Why? There are still many, due to ideological components, political complaints, programmatic variations, who think that Defense does not. It works”he stated at an event with the CNI (National Confederation of Industry).
Múcio stated that ideological issues stopped a bid won by Israelis. “The diplomatic issue interferes with Defense. There was now a competition, a bidding process. The Jews, the people of Israel won, but for reasons of war, Hamas, political groups, we have this bid ready, but for ideological reasons we cannot approve it. TCU did not allow us to give it to 2nd place and we are waiting for these issues to pass so that we can defend ourselves”he said.
WAR IN UKRAINE
The minister cited a second case of what he called “diplomatic embarrassment”, this time involving the war in Ukraine. “We have ammunition here in the Army that we don’t use. Germany wanted to buy it. It’s there, it costs a lot to maintain that ammunition. We made the deal, a big deal. Don’t do it because otherwise the German will send it to Ukraine, Ukraine will use it against Russia and Russia will change our fertilizer agreements.”
OTHER SPEECHES FROM MUCIO
Next, read other topics mentioned by Múcio and what the minister said:
- potassium – “We, for example, import potassium from Canada when we have the 2nd largest potassium reserves here, but, for ideological reasons, the Constitution provides, but as it is under indigenous land, we cannot exploit our potassium”;
- coup of 1964 X January 8, 2023 – “The left thought they [Forças Armadas] they planned that coup and the right was angry because it didn’t happen. So, we were left with no one to talk to, anyone to argue with. Why? Because, if many people credit the Armed Forces with the coup of 64, it needed to be credited to the Armed Forces that there was no coup in 2023. It was the Armed Forces that preserved and secured our democracy, but does society know that? No”;
- lack of knowledge about Defense – “The Ministry of Defense, the name of Defense, is not because we live defending the country. We live defending ourselves from society, the press, politicians, governments, due to the absolute lack of knowledge of what the Ministry of Defense is, the defense industry in Brazil”.
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