Sharjah24 - AFP: The two largest nations in the Americas, Brazil and the United States, have successfully fended off attacks on their democracies and will now cooperate to combat the climate problem, said President Joe Biden and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday at the White House.
"Both our nations' strong democracies have been tested," Biden told Lula, and "both in the United States and Brazil, democracy prevailed."
Meeting in the Oval Office, Biden and Lula expressed solidarity over their similar paths.
Biden defeated Donald Trump in 2020, but two months later, a mob of Trump supporters stormed Congress believing his conspiracy theory that he'd been the real election winner.
In Brazil, Lula defeated right-winger Jair Bolsonaro and took office this January, but a mob of Bolsonaro supporters stormed government buildings shortly after.
"We have some issues on which we can work together," Lula told Biden. "First is to never again allow" the anti-democratic mob attacks.
Touting Brazil's return to the international arena, Lula said his predecessor's "world started and ended with fake news – in the morning, afternoon and at night. It seemed that he despised international relations."
Biden, referring to Trump, quickly answered: "Sounds familiar."
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