Turns out if you take a page out of China and Russia’s book and stand up to the bully, more often than not you will win and the bully will back down. (Brazil isn’t the only such example in the Western hemisphere btw, Mexico’s current government has also pretty deftly managed the whole situation imo.)

If you choose to bend the knee and completely cuck yourself like Canada and the Europeans, you will just appear weak and so you still get slapped with the tariffs and you also end up with a much worse deal than you could have had if you stood firm. Being a spineless sycophant is no guarantee of protection.