Brazil bravely confronts the hybrid war waged by the US and the global techno-plutocratic far-right, allied with local traitors.

“Chaos is no longer the weapon of rebels, but the mark of the dominant” (Da Empoli) [1]

Brazil is, literally and truly, under an intense, complex, and asymmetrical hybrid war waged and directed by the US, under Trump's command and with the support of the global far-right. There is no way to hide or deny this reality. Daily, in the form of provocative pills, in varying doses, progress is being made towards the gradual abolition of the system of rules and agreements between nations.

In practice, all the institutions that limited the power of the dominant group are being dismantled, and in desperation to end his hegemony, he tries to cling to algorithmic techniques in what would be a new form of imperial domination, between codes and algorithms of digital platforms that exert cognitive control at a level above the already strong US military complex, which remains on standby.

The leader of these agents doesn't know history, doesn't read it, and doesn't even want to know about it, but dreams of rewriting it, just like the German Führer a century ago, dreaming of a new ending. To this end, they work in coordination and coalition, uniting giant technology corporations, venture capital leaders, think tanks, legal structures, etc., all articulated and instrumentalized by digital platforms structured for action in data capture, control, and cognitive manipulation, in service of the USA.

There is an ongoing strategy of intensive use of digital technology and hybrid warfare as weapons of "recolonization," with the goal of repositioning Brazil in the space that the US has always called its backyard. Brazil is one of the targets and, at this moment, an epicenter, because it has positioned itself, along with BRICS, with the intention of building independent and sovereign alternatives, both in terms of minimum digital governance and in means of payment and capital flows.

The US demands vassalage, offered by the leaders of the Brazilian far-right, refusing to accept that Brazil can assert its sovereignty and challenge the new algorithmic order based on technology, cognition, and politics, which uses the hybrid warfare machine as a tool to fuel the hope of regaining geopolitical control over all of Latin America.

In this war, the modus operandi is blatant and is based on the co-opting of local elites, through an alliance with Bolsonaro's supporters, targeting the Brazilian justice system, but spreading like an octopus, with numerous tentacles, including tariff increases in trade flows; individual (perhaps national) financial blockades; and information warfare with controlled and targeted algorithms within the social media exchanges of American Big Tech companies.

Good analysts [1,2,3,4] have analyzed the directions and intentions of this US action. They appear to be opposites, but they unite in the objective of recolonization and regaining control of the empire.

On one side, there is the culture war and Steve Bannon's chaos theory, which operates within a mass movement focused on digital manipulation and cognitive modulation. It aims to destroy traditional institutions and the establishment. It attempts to create a power vacuum conducive to movements that lead to a new conservative and plutocratic order.

At the other extreme is the so-called Technological Republic [5], under the ideological leadership of Peter Thiel, owner of the technology and defense company Palantir [6], which aims to dismantle the nation-state from within, replacing it with structure and human resources under the private control of large technology corporations, the Big Techs.

Together, within the US, they aspire to destroy the Deep State (and its institutions) to replace it with a techno-plutocratic structure uniting the owners of Big Tech and the revolutionary ideals of the conservative MAGA movement. The emerging leadership of Silicon Valley for this endeavor is centered on Vice President JD Vance. Alongside Trump, they are already advancing in the crusade for a privatized bureaucracy, under the command of the plutocracy as an extension of US capital.

According to Aragon [2], Trump and Vance know that Bannon's ideological chaos (reset) alone does not sustain the resumption of the empire. Much less Thiel's capture of the State, which lacks popular fervor to mobilize the masses. Therefore, the two options are not mutually exclusive; on the contrary, they serve this undertaking which, in the techno-plutocratic view, has the basis for what they call the new techno-conservative order, which has fascist characteristics.

AI is the latest technological basis in use by this movement of digital predators, which operates in an accelerated and powerful way. Da Empoli (2025) [1] reminds us that “Silicon Valley engineers have long since stopped programming computers and have become programmers of human behavior”. And he goes further, stating that “AI is not a simple accelerator of power, but a new form of power, which is distinct from all machines created by man until then. If automation focused on the means, AI is interested in the ends”.

The power of AI is based on the idea of ​​feeding chaos, escaping all rationality, not adhering to rules or procedures, in order to extract from it the surprise that is so successful among algorithms and social networks, instruments of this movement, showing, mostly, its opaque, anti-democratic, manipulative bias and an “authoritarian intelligence, which centralizes data and converts it into power” [1, Da Empoli, 2025, p. 78].

Based on the summary presented here, drawing from numerous other readings, and considering everything else observed in the current situation, the task facing the Brazilian people and government at this moment is not simple. It is not a struggle between man and machine, but rather a matter of using the machine as a form of power and a weapon within the existing asymmetry between these nations of the American continent.

The way out is a daily, courageous, intelligent, and collective struggle, both internally and externally. Within Brazil, the fight is against co-opted elites with colonized minds. This is a new stage in the struggle that overcame the attempted coup in 2023 and continues to fight for the construction of a sovereign, inclusive, less unjust and unequal Brazil. And, externally, in an articulated and cooperative manner, alongside several other nations that also fight for overcoming dependency, for multilateralism, and in favor of solidarity among peoples.

References and notes:

[1] DA EMPOLI, Giuliano. The predators' hourHow autocrats and digital tycoons are leading the world to the brink of orchestrated collapse. Vestígio. São Paulo, 2025.

[2] GONÇALVES, Reynaldo José Aragon. After all, who is JD Vance? The architect of digital recolonization. Código Aberto. August 2, 2025. Available at: https://www.codigoaberto.net/post/afinal-de-contas-quem-%C3%A9-j-d-vance

[3] GONÇALVES, Reynaldo José Aragon. The US wants to provoke a diplomatic rupture with Brazil. Código Aberto. August 7, 2025. Available at: https://www.codigoaberto.net/post/os-eua-querem-provocar-uma-ruptura-com-o-brasil

[4] ARAGON, Reynaldo. Thiel vs. Bannon: The war between the architects of chaos. Other Words. June 10, 2025. Available at: https://outraspalavras.net/outrasmidias/thiel-vs-bannon-a-guerra-entre-os-arquitetos-do-caos/

[5] KARP, Alexander C. ZAMISKA, NW Technological Republic: technology, politics and the future of the West. Intrínseca. Rio de Janeiro. 2025.