Huge protests march against Argentina's education cuts - Reuters

[TexasTowelie]

Hundreds of thousands of Argentines took to the streets of Buenos Aires in an anti-government march against budget cuts to public universities, the biggest protest yet against President Javier Milei's austerity measures.

[peppertree]

1. Meanwhile, that Chucky doll Milei is buying 24 Reagan-era f-16s - at $338 million a pop

They're "de-NATOized" (i.e. utterly useless - other than for training) - and Argentina can't even secure parts, equipment or weaponry for them because there's an U.K. embargo on any such thing that has any British components (and fighter jets most do).

But Milei thinks the State Department and the CIA will "get" him re-elected, if he'll just pull enough of these stunts and wave the U.S. flag enough.

Either that, or his witch-doctor sister's séances with his dead dog.

Thanks for posting this. Trump looks like Biden compared to this demented moron.

[Judi Lynn]

2. I appreciate your perspective on Milei's puzzling behavior toward a country with a Not Trump President!

It seemed weird when articles appeared reporting Milei had made friendly gestures toward the US because Trump is Milei's natural ally, not a Democratic President.

Milei is looking past Biden to the machine which has been running the Republic foreign policy since at least as far back as Eisenhower, right at the State Department, then! Well, that totally explains it. Presidents do come and go but the State Department never seems to change, does it?

Who can forget the Dulles Brothers? Jeez. Eisenhower warned the nation about the military/industrial complex so long ago....

You mentioned Milei's odd sister! I never knew. That makes two strange dictatorship fan presidents with looney-toons "psychics" advising them, appearing as bookends to the hard-working, decent progressive president stuck between them. Argentina's loss, for sure!

Very interesting food for thought!

[peppertree]

3. Thank you, Judi. It is what it is.

Right-wing Argentine voters, as you know, have long cheered the war-level sanctions on Venezuela.

Well, they voted in a killer clown who's basically inflicting the same - but on his own country.

And they (the right-wing voters) like it!

Worse yet - so does Argentina's Farce News-like media. And that's why he can do what he does - with total impunity.

Meanwhile, we have a Cold War-era State Dept. and CIA who - like children - all they see is that "the little nutball waves the U.S. flag" and cancels any and all deals with China (no matter how advantageous for cash-strapped Argentina).

That Milei might be sinking Argentina into a Venezuela-like humanitarian catastrophe - meh, who cares. "He rubs our ego when we fly down there - so that's fine by us."

Sure. Of course he does.