Brazil is now the chief external source of soy beans for China.
Brazilian farmers are buying Chinese farming equipment instead of American.
On that last point they’re expressing the belief that China is somehow forcing Brazilian farmers to use cheaper … higher quality … ah … more capable and … ah … not locked-down by enshittification … tractors?
They genuinely do not get it, even when their farms are facing foreclosure! And they still vote for the ill-tempered old-age toddler who did it to them.
Less money, no jobs is what they understand. Whether they want to hear it is another thing.
They won’t even understand that.
Soy farmers are baffled as to why:
On that last point they’re expressing the belief that China is somehow forcing Brazilian farmers to use cheaper … higher quality … ah … more capable and … ah … not locked-down by enshittification … tractors?
They genuinely do not get it, even when their farms are facing foreclosure! And they still vote for the ill-tempered old-age toddler who did it to them.