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Every man is the hero of his own play, even if to someone else he is the sidekick, human interest story or the bartender.

It is quite clear that Brazil has had the ambition to be the dominant naval power in its region, or even further afield for more than a century.

Its quite possible that in 100 years the worlds largest economies would go something like this, China, Brazil, India, Europe, North America.

Even now, Brazil is a significant global trader.

They certainly have as much right to power projection as any European power.

Its quite possible that in the course of the next 50 years they will disagree with another power over an important question in South America, or Even Africa.

Its also quite possible that they will go about the business of strengthening their arm inefficiently, or in a different manner to what another power may do.

I know there is a strong school of thought that sees all military spending as economically delitarious. Personally, I think modest military spending as a fraction of gdp will have little or no negative impact on long term growth.

Its worth remembering the Brazil sits about 8th in Rank in GDP, just behind the UK and France and just ahead of Italy and Russia (with the places swapping around 1-2 depending on when and by whom). A very different kettle of fish to Aregentina (19) or Chile (31).