Bolsonaro says the Supreme Court is out to get him. He's not wrong

With rising political tension, institutional deadlock, and regular Federal Police operations making the headlines, today's Brazil is reminiscent of 2015. Just like five years ago, when Operation Car Wash began exposing the ins and outs of corruption at the federal level, this battle between political stakeholders will leave neither side with a death blow.

Instead, it is a war of attrition, as opposing forces slowly wear each other down.

But things were taken up a notch Wednesday morning, as the Supreme Court launched an operation to crack down on an alleged fake-news ring operating to benefit far-right President Jair Bolsonaro—possibly under his administration's auspices.