Fuck that headline. It was the president of Portugal.
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Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the president of Portugal
What, they didn't have chinese soldiers on hands and knees rolling out a red carpet?
I would like to point out to everyone underestimating Portugal's influence in world politics that, while I agree it hasn't been a military or economic major power in centuries, it has great diplomatic outreach:
- Part of the EU and has been used as an example of how to handle drug abuse
- Part of CPLP which seeks to align the interests of all Portuguese speaking countries (in Europe, South America, West and East Africa and Oceania)
- Vast naval territory in the Atlantic and the Azores which have hosted a US military base for decades
- Good relations with China especially after the return of Macau
- The current secretary general of the UN is an old portuguese Prime Minister
So while no longer a major country, it still has sway on how relations between some countries develop
Also the Anglo-Portuguese treaty of 1373. Still in effect today. This isn't a nothing treaty, according to Wikipedia it was activated during the Falklands war. Though Great Britain may not be the power they once were, they still have sway with a lot of the world. I don't really know where I'm going with this other than to say Portugal has friends.
Ok, "major world leader" is clickbait, they could've just said Portuguese President.
While i wouldn't describe Portugal as major, it isn't irrelevant either: early member of the EU (was the ECC back then), treaties with a lot of countries (Brazil being one on account of being an ex-colony and sharing the language), founding member of NATO, emigrant communities all over the world (US included), a few high-ranking politicians are Portuguese (President of the European Council António Costa, secretary-general of the UN António Guterres, ex-president of the European Comission Durão Barroso who now works for Goldman Sachs...). There's also that Cristiano Ronaldo guy.
The US also has a military base in a Portuguese island in the Atlantic.
Why this fascist fuck who likes taking selfies with his voters decided to criticize another fascist fuck is a mystery to me though...
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa is center-right, so more alligned with the democrats in the US, not with the Neonazi party that calls themselves conservative.
I wouldn't vote him, but calling him a fascist is pretty far off reality.
Why do you mention so many people but not him? Wtf does Ronaldo have to do with anything?
Here we see a homo sapiens partaking in Whataboutism. He thinks bad stuff cancel each other out.
He also thinks unless you are a "VERY NICE AS A PERSON" master chef, you cannot critize food since what would you know, with your personality?
I think every world leader worth their salt knows trump kowtows to putin. Portugal got to say it out loud. I'm buying some of their wine this weekend.
I was expecting that leader to be Putin like, "yeah, he's my bitch."
Completely irrelevant, but I live in an area with a lot of Hispanic and Brazilian people, and I overheard this conversation in the grocery store between a mom and her elementary school age daughter, and the little girl said:
"Yeah, she has a crush on him, but he doesn't speak Spanish, he speaks Pork-a-cheese."
It makes me laugh every time I think about it, and every Spanish person that I tell it to cracks up.
No shit, Sherlock.
They picked the ugliest, nastiest motherfucker to keep us distracted.
Agent Fuckfaced Krasnov.

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