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Brazil and United States Sign Unprecedented Military Agreement
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Mar.4.2020 1:16PM
Igor Gielow
SÃO PAULO
Brazil and the United States signed an unprecedented military agreement that, if fully exploited, could help open the world's largest defense market to the domestic industry.
The agreement, known by the acronym RDT&E (English acronym for research, development, testing, and evaluation), will be signed next week, during the visit of President Jair Bolsonaro to Miami.
Politically, it will serve for Bolsonaro to say that his automatic alignment to the USA is paying off.
In reality, RDT&E started to be negotiated by the American initiative in 2017, under the government of Michel Temer (MDB). Still, the rapprochement between Bolsonaro and Trump accelerated the negotiations.
More:
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/world/2020/03/brazil-and-united-states-sign-unprecedented-military-agreement.shtml?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsen
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016248696