Brazil’s president is losing clout abroad and unpopular at home

On June 22nd, hours after the United States struck Iranian nuclear sites with huge bunker-buster bombs, Brazil’s foreign ministry put out a statement. It said that Brazil’s government “strongly condemns” the American attack, and that the strikes were a “violation of Iran’s sovereignty and international law”. This strength of language put Brazil at odds with all other Western democracies, which either supported the strikes or merely expressed concern.