Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has expressed his intention to take the opportunity of attending the upcoming G7 summit in Japan as a guest, to engage in mediation efforts to settle the Ukrainian crisis.
"The continuation of the war will only kill (more people). Therefore it is necessary to find a side that can discuss peace, and Brazil is ready to do that," Lula da Silva said during a joint press conference with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Tuesday.
"I spoke with the Chinese president and the British prime minister, as well as with the Dutch prime minister today, and I will talk about this (topic) with the Indian prime minister and the president of Indonesia, as well as many other leaders that I will meet at the G7 summit," he added.
The Brazilian president indicated that files such as the situation in Ukraine, energy, confronting climate change, economic development, and combating unemployment will be included in the agenda of the G-7 summit to be held on May 20-21 in Hiroshima, Japan, and continued: "We have a lot of requests for bilateral meetings, and I am sure that The Ukrainian issue will be raised in each of them.
Earlier, Dula da Silva suggested developing a new international formula to create an opportunity for dialogue between Moscow and Kiev, expressing his willingness, if necessary, to play the role of mediator in holding direct negotiations between Russian leaders Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian Vladimir Zelensky.
Yellen: A big gap between the positions of Biden and the Republicans on the debt ceiling
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jefferies and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer participated in the meeting.
Upon leaving the White House, McCarthy said that no progress had been made. In turn, Jeffreys said that extremist Republicans had indicated that they were ready to push us towards "default", and described the matter as "recklessness, irresponsibility and extremism."
For her part, White House spokeswoman Karen Jean-Pierre said that the constitutional duty dictates that Republican lawmakers take action to raise the debt ceiling, calling on Republicans to raise the debt ceiling "unconditionally."
But McCarthy confirmed on Tuesday that Republican representatives are carrying out their responsibilities by drawing up a plan to raise the public debt ceiling that provides for budget cuts, accusing Biden of taking the country "hostage."
And raising the "debt ceiling" is a legislative maneuver that allows the world's largest economy to continue paying its bills and dues to its creditors and wages to its employees. The debt ceiling has been set so far at $31 trillion, which is a record for all sovereign debt in the world in absolute terms. Republicans condition the agreement on raising the debt ceiling in exchange for budget cuts.
"We will not vote for a text that raises the debt ceiling without fundamental reforms to the budget and government spending," some 40 Republican senators said over the weekend.
In 2011, the United States faced a similar situation that led to a downgrade in its credit rating, as doubts prevailed about the possibility of raising the debt ceiling during the era of President Barack Obama. The current situation raises many fluctuations in the markets.
Wall Street opened lower on Tuesday morning, and the Oxford Economics think tank noted in a note that investors were "shunning US debt maturing in June, July and August."
Sovereign credit default swaps, which are financial swap agreements in which the seller compensates the buyer in the event of a loan or other credit default, are at historic highs in a sign of growing concern in the financial world.
In order to remove the risk of default that did not happen previously, Biden needs to convince part of the Republican members of the Senate, due to the lack of a sufficient majority of the Democrats in the House.
But above all, the US president needs to find common ground with the Speaker of the House.
And if the stalemate continues after June 1, according to the administration, the United States will find itself unable to pay bills and salaries, and also unable to pay its creditors, and therefore, it will be the first time that holders of US Treasury bonds will not be able to recover their investments.
Therefore, the White House asserts that if the recovery period for which the president takes credit for himself ends, the markets will collapse, the recession will be historic, and unemployment will rise strongly in the United States, with consequences for the entire global economy.
Mark Milley sets the date for the emergence of a marching air force and navy
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces assumed that “only between 10 and 15 years will separate us from the emergence of air forces, navy and tanks that are fully or partially controlled.
Milley said in a speech during a symposium on Tuesday: "Within the next 10 or 15 years, we will witness the emergence of air forces, navy, and ground armored forces that are marched or partially marched."
Milley noted that the adoption rates of robotic technology are "unprecedented".
Earlier, Milley acknowledged, in an interview with "Foreign Affairs" magazine, that the United States is experimenting with drone technologies on the surface of water, under water, and in the air, and that it plans to develop unmanned ground vehicles, including tanks, in the future.
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