Javier Milei gave a speech:
Javier Milei just gave a speech announcing massive deregulation of the economy in Argentina.
I liked how he opened the speech: condemning the philosophy that led Argentina to the situation itās in today.
Watch the beginning of @JMileiās speech with English subtitles below š pic.twitter.com/houEL4WjJk
— agustina vergara cid (@agustinavcid) December 21, 2023
He says a lot of good things of the sort that have been said on this blog: socialism causes economic failure and costs lives; the individual is more important than the state; it is better if everything not forbidden is permitted than if everything not permitted is forbidden; politicians are not God; fiscal deficit is bad.
I hope that he means it, and that he can do it, and that he is not undermined by the civil service, or by whatever Argentina has in the way of a “deep state”. It would be good to see Argentina getting wealthy again. It would be bad if there are further disasters and they can be conveniently blamed, by those with bad ideas, on these good ideas that Milei is talking about.
The people around him look like hostages…
I really hope he picked out his ministers and so forth a lot more carefully than Trump did.
He will need to completely defenestrate the body politic & “civil service”
How that can be done without exemplary executions remains to be seen
Argentina will either become the Poster Boy/Girl for sanity, or fall back into the IMF/WEF/Davos pit of Despair
As soon as the public starts to feel the economic pinch AND see fewer handouts coming their way someone is going to throw a coup and he’ll get the Allende treatment of “suicide” and we get Junta 2.0 in its place.
Fingers crossed š¤
If he does fail to come up with the goods he can always mount another invasion
Yes Kirk – President Trump accepted the recommendations of establishment Republicans for some posts (thankfully not all of them) – this was a very bad blunder.
The speech by President Milei is indeed good – but as others who have challenged the accused “International Community” (which the “Deep State” serve in so many countries) he faces forces of evil whose power is very great.
You think the military will overthrow the most right-wing government they’ve had in years? Or do you think the military will sit aside and let a left-wing coup win?
Both seem wildly unlikely — in a country which hasn’t had military rule in 40 years, and whose last military government was not a advertisement for the whole coup thing.
The next election is in four years. Even the left can wait that long.
Successful “hot” coups are now pretty much a thing of the past in proper democracies. They require to population to stand by and accept them, which real democracies mostly just don’t do any more. Even if they seize power temporarily, the military can’t do much if everyone refuses to accept the result.
First, the ad homs. Even the dog story may be part of it. The WEF et al will paint this man as a villain, worse than Hitler, fascist, anti-democracy and all the rest. They will do what they can to spoil his plans both inside and outside Argentina. They will label the economic progress as disastrous, they will find victims and ‘vulnerable’ people to show the suffering imposed by this shot at financial common sense.
They cannot let this stand for fear of it undermining their whole scam.
An excellent speech, disregard the specifics of the numbers and it could easily be a reference to the UK. He is saying what needs to be said, he clearly intends to do what needs to be done. As for the military, in the mid-1970s they were into Keynesian ‘plata dulce’ (sweet money) i.e. low interest rates and money printing and economically weren’t that different from the governments that preceded them, and there was a murderous insurgency of the Montoneros to deal with. Now the grandchildren of the Montoneros have Venezuela and Cuba for support instead of Cuba and the USSR, but Milei’s ministers have been making plans to deal with Leftist violence, and have said that the military needs some investment, hopefully cannibalising funds from elsewhere.
I am buying Argentine wine now to help them along. Ā”Afuera!
Coups are subtle affairs these days – a matter of Social Media companies (with long standing links to American intelligence agencies), “NGOs” (funded by Western governments, “charitable foundations”, and international corporations) with lots of talk of “democracy” (by forces dedicated to destroying democracy and having their nation controlled by international bureaucracy – the Corporate State) and slogans written in English (for CNN and the BBC).
Will the President of Argentina be able to achieve anything real? Perhaps – but only if he understands that the modern West now stands for principles that are the opposite of the principles it once stood for The modern West is not the friend of liberty – it has become an enemy of liberty.
Indeed, ask Liz Truss. Meanwhile in Serbia, the recent elections are ‘disputed’ but the winner is not the usual sort, and the BBC tells us without irony:
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I agree that coups are often soft these days, which is why I specifically talked about “hot” coups.
But the original post suggested that Milei might “suicide”, which is really not the modern way (Epstein excluded), implying a traditional coup.
Anyway, to run a soft coup you need to be on the inside. Melei does not seem like someone to appoint lots of wets.
The only sort of coup that might work is the old-fashioned shutting-everything-down with general strikes, key government departments refusing to work etc. That’s very tricky to pull off if the person involved is popular. Even unpopular politicians, like France’s Macron, can generally just wait out that sort of thing.
“Serbia Against Violence” using violence – the normal modern inversion of language.
As for the “Green-Left Front” the name speaks for itself – and you can bet that American and other Western taxpayer funded groups are backing them.
As for policy – the Opposition want “Progressive” taxation and rule by the European Union.
President of Argentina be warned – these are the sort of people the modern “Woke” West backs, plus (of course) industrial scale abortion and “Trans Rights” for children.
Chester Draws – Liz Truss appointed good people, but was brought down by a Bank of England and general international Credit Money “financial industry” coup, backed up by the endless lies of the media.
Lis Truss was strongly ANTI Mr Putin – but that did not save her, any more than it saved the former Conservative government of Poland – who did more for Ukraine (against Mr Putin) than any other country on the planet.
The message is plain – even if you do that the “International Community” wants you to do in foreign policy, they will still organize a media and social media (and financial) coup against you – unless you also obey them in DOMESTIC policy.
The accused International Community wants only puppet regimes – countries (nations) that will be independent in NOTHING.
As for the “Cossack Nation” (Ukrainian National Anthem – look up the lyrics) the Cossacks were Orthodox Christians – they, in matters of religion, followed the Julian Calendar.
People claiming to be Cossacks should keep to these traditions – rather than obey the International Community.
Nothing to do with rule from Moscow (which was never good) – such things as the date of Christmas were what the Cossack Republic was about.
Full disclosure – my own ancestors had no reason to love them. But it seems I have more respect for their traditions than their “friends” do (the “friends” who want to make them puppets).