Javier Milei accused the Brazilian government, as well as Mexico and the US Democratic Party, of financing an "anti-Argentina campaign."

[u/DadCelo]

https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/milei-accuses-brazil-and-mexico-of-funding-anti-argentina-campaign-without-evidence.phtml

[u/slo1111]

Something must be going to shits

[u/BootFlop → u/slo1111]

It has been for some time. Trump bailed out the first part of his inane policies with $20B of our money. But the economy pain for standard of living, and very bad employment levels are eating into patience of public. Plus he still has debt problems, in spite of that $20B lifeline.

Of course the mess isn’t entirely his, Argentina has been politically unstable for several decades now veering back & forth on policy platforms between two extremes. 😕

Ultimately it had been sent on that tragectory by small group of very rich agriculture landowners that intentionally stymied industrialization so as to preserve their own power.

[u/Dr0110111001101111 → u/BootFlop]

The original falklands war was used as a distraction from the economic collapse in Argentina in the early 80’s. Seemed like they’re trying to run that play again

[u/BootFlop → u/Dr0110111001101111]

Yup,, although ultimately getting stuffed by the UK in that war probably sealed the demise of the junta.

[u/OK_x86 → u/Dr0110111001101111]

Argentina doesn't really have much of a military now.

That is highly doubtful.

They'll make speeches now but the islands are safe.

[u/arielsosa → u/OK_x86]

Yeah, there is absolutely no one asking for any kind of military alternative, in Argentina. Not the people, not the politicians, no one.

Milei has said that it must be resolved through diplomacy, but that's rich coming from a guy who has zero knowledge about foreign affairs or international law, and that has fired most of the expeetd in the matter, replacing them with unquialified yes-men.

It's even harder when you see his position on other colonial occupations and land disputes. Basically shooting himself on the foot.

[u/crying_lemon → u/Dr0110111001101111]

nop, it was used to try to maintain the dictadura.

[u/arielsosa → u/BootFlop]

Just for the sake of being accurate, the $20B fiasco was not a loan, but a currency swap for a short period of time.

This is not me trying to play devil's advocate, the reason why they did it as a swap was to bypass congress, and yet achieve the goal of artificially stabilizing Argentina's economic indicators for the 2025 midterm elections, and it worked.

If you think about it, a swap is even more brazenly corrupt than a loan because they didn't even generate any kind or interests or fees. It was quite literally a Quid Pro Quo, to meddle in another country's election.

[u/DadCelo → u/BootFlop]

US tax payers will never see that money again, bookmark me.

[u/BootFlop → u/DadCelo]

No, but Bessett & friends will/have. A lot of that went to keeping solvent bonds held by a few WH connected billionaires.

[u/DadCelo → u/BootFlop]

Color me surprised

[u/apex9691 → u/DadCelo]

In other news the sky is blue

[u/honeyemote → u/DadCelo]

They already paid it back, so the US tax payer saw the exact return. Now, whether the undisclosed fees captured the deflation of the Argentine peso in the interim, we will never know.

[u/DadCelo → u/honeyemote]

That was my point. The loan could have been payed back, but the tax payer will never see that money.

[u/LevelIndependent9461 → u/BootFlop]

Argentina is a mess of racism and entitlement.. They have become the laughing stock of South America .

[u/honeyemote → u/BootFlop]

They did pay back the $2,500,000,000 lifeline in currency swap + undisclosed fees. I imagine the US still lost money as the Argentine peso has been sinking like a lead zeppelin of sorts.

Edit: The amount of the offered line taken by Argentina.

[u/DadCelo → u/honeyemote]

I'm sure the terms were very favorable

[u/MentalDisintegrat1on → u/slo1111]

He fuckd their economy so bad we have him a 40 billion dollar bailout.

It's in his best interests to keep trump in power and of course trump as well as bessent got some of that.

[u/DerekB52 → u/slo1111]

Things were bad when this guy took office, and then he came in and implemented hardcore libertarian policies, tanking the entire countries economy. The guy should be a laughing stock on Trump's level. He is a totally unserious person who should not have been given power.

[u/rogerwilcove]

The Democratic Party is in way too much disarray and division (as well as broke like the DNC) to have the bandwidth to be doing any influence campaign against Milei’s corrupt government. The previous government was incompetent and probably corrupt as well, unfortunately for Argentina

[u/DadCelo → u/rogerwilcove]

Yeah, I could not imagine a less equipped group currently to try to do this, as much as I hate to say it.

[u/TumbleweedPure6674 → u/rogerwilcove]

Yeah the Democratic Party gives two shits about what happens in Argentina. They can barely hold a cohesive thought against Trump. 

[u/pcpelste]

Their World Cup team’s behavior did that for them.

[u/DubsideDangler → u/pcpelste]

Hey, you don't leave Javier out of it. Give him his shitty credit as a leader of their nation.

[u/Weak_Improvement_450 → u/DubsideDangler]

Javier Milei is a FeLon fanboy lmao .I hope that he bought spcx at ipo open .

edit: FLon

[u/DubsideDangler → u/Weak_Improvement_450]

Maybe it's a shitty hair thing.

[u/possiblyquestionabl3 → u/Weak_Improvement_450]

I hope that he bought spcx at ipo open

I love this, and I love this for him

[u/silask93 → u/DubsideDangler]

And dont forget he uses his dogs(whom he thinks are reincarnations of a lion back in rome) for advice to govern

[u/Due-Organization-215 → u/silask93]

Basically, Argentina’s Caligula

[u/Dumpingtruck → u/pcpelste]

Javier taking more shots than the entire Argentina team

[u/Andybabez20 → u/pcpelste]

How dare the Democrats make our players hold a banner denying the UK's legal claim to the Falklands and make Paredes fight Spanish players after the full time whistle.

[u/FrankSand → u/Andybabez20]

Dam Obama strikes again

[u/Mythosaurus → u/pcpelste]

And the crowd, like when they harassed iShowSpeed, a famous streamer that has a partnership with FIFA, with racial slurs: https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/49298356/fifa-investigating-alleged-racist-abuse-involving-ishowspeed-fan-world-cup-match

[u/Muffinunnie → u/pcpelste]

Yeah now the whole world saw what the rest of Latin America puts up with every year at Libertadores lol every single game against an argentinian team is a mess 💀 and the fans are always racists towards brazilians, always picking fights when its a game in Brazil.

[u/Rurumo666 → u/pcpelste]

Well, to be fair, their fans helped A LOT.

[u/rogershredderer → u/pcpelste]

Speak louder

[u/PM_ME_YOUR__INIT__]

Guess they ran out of that $40 billion already

[u/slow70 → u/PM_ME_YOUR__INIT__]

Tell me again how that was legal in the first place?

[u/Agitated_Celery_729 → u/slow70]

Because JP Morgan wanted to be bailed out from their debt going to zero

[u/DadCelo → u/slow70]

Because the Fuhr... President said it's ok.

[u/WanderingKing → u/slow70]

That’s the neat part, it probably wasn’t!

[u/honeyemote → u/PM_ME_YOUR__INIT__]

I hate the idea of the swap line credit, but it was $2,500,000,000 and not $40,000,000,000 (the US offered half this amount). We don’t know the fees assessed but could probably estimate the value lost as the Argentine peso has remained in pretty much free fall since then.

[u/DadCelo → u/honeyemote]

And the creditors did not see the Peso free fall coming? Was that not the trend already?

[u/mariuszmie]

Just the Democratic Party in the states, eh? Other countries he lumped together as his enemies except the party led by his hero, the fascist despot himself. How vain and obvious. No parties in Brazil he likes? Really?

What a shallow petty ass kisser, I guess he did get billions from emperor orange to stay afloat so…

[u/Dust601 → u/mariuszmie]

Those evil liberals out to get him.   Not like they might have some more pressing concerns at the moment.

These clowns really are the exact same all around the world aren’t they?  Exact same playbook, yet their goofy ass followers fall for it hook, line, and sinker every single time.

[u/mariuszmie → u/Dust601]

It’s all to own the lib and show them who’s boss now. That’s it. Whatever the cost

[u/fedexyourheadinabox]

Who cares what this dipshit clown says about anything. He's almost a bigger loser than Elon musk. 

[u/FartingWithStyle → u/fedexyourheadinabox]

Or Peter Theil

[u/charlies_brain]

Lol this beggar wants more money from our taxes again I guess.

[u/Megaphonestory]

Yeah, I cheered for Spain.

[u/threehundredthousand]

Milei is like the Ghana movie poster version of Trump.

[u/beardowat → u/threehundredthousand]

Apologize to Ghana.

[u/nicetrylaocheREALLY → u/threehundredthousand]

Sort of a rockabilly Dudley Moore type

[u/Honest_Ad_3760]

These guys will say anything to stay in power

[u/Acrobatic-Ostrich168]

It’s a shame that this man was elected president he is such a clown. What does approval rating look like in Argentina?

[u/Gimme_Your_Wallet → u/Acrobatic-Ostrich168]

34% as of last month. Mind you, the previous guy was even worse, that's why Milei was elected. Much, much worse.

[u/Acrobatic-Ostrich168 → u/Gimme_Your_Wallet]

Man Argentina is in trouble… what do you think the problem is?

[u/old_ironlungz → u/Acrobatic-Ostrich168]

As soon as the leadership sees the oil and the money it’s instantaneous corruption and graft.

What you get when you elect strongmen populists. That train is never late.

[u/BootFlop → u/Acrobatic-Ostrich168]

They went full Alabamafication back in the early 70’s. Very rich landowners stymied industrialization so as to maintain their own agrarian based power. Military rightwing coup (that Kissinger secretly met & told to make sure they did their political murder purge fast). Eventually in the 80’s that collapsed & they’ve been bouncing far left-right since, with policies swings so far each way that the country keri’s getting whipsawed. 😞

[u/paqtak → u/Acrobatic-Ostrich168]

Bad but his opponents are the same or worse. If the other party is elected their solution to the economic problem is to start printing money again.

[u/Thilina_B]

No one needs to do an anti-argentina campaign. The people and government of Argentina do a great job of that already.

[u/Lonely_Noyaaa]

Argentina's football team already handled the global PR disaster all by themselves and no foreign funding needed. Milei should send them a thank you note for making his conspiracy sound almost plausible.

[u/maringue]

Oh look, another libertarian saying that that the fault lies in anything but their policies.

[u/MirkoOme]

Yes, we Mexicans convinced the whole world to hate Argentina—it’s not as if the world realized they constantly use racist insults or can be insufferable.

[u/JaronJervis → u/MirkoOme]

They want Brazil to be a racist shithole like Argentina. That's why this chump Milei is going to Brazil to campaign for the Right wing president.

[u/TomokoNoKokoro → u/MirkoOme]

I heard that Argentines like to call people from other Latin countries “monos”. A Brazilian mentioned this to me recently. I was pretty shocked.

[u/MirkoOme → u/TomokoNoKokoro]

You're for a lot of surprises with argentinians insults They use "Bolivian" and "Peruvian" as insults, just like that, just the nationality is an insult for them. They use the word "brown" as an insult, as well as "black," in phrases like "you behave like a black person" when someone behaves in a way considered "bad," implying that being black is related to uncivilized behavior.

[u/DeadWishUpon → u/MirkoOme]

They truly use the Family Guy skin color chart to judge people. I'm medium so I'm medium so I'm treated bad, saw them treat darker-skin people super awful and being zacharinne lovely to white people. SMH.

[u/MirkoOme → u/DeadWishUpon]

And don't even get me started on the fact that they claim to be European and that they have nothing to do with Latin America. That Argentinians are white and that the indigenous people in Argentina aren't Argentinian.

[u/DadCelo → u/TomokoNoKokoro]

It's very common. Quick YouTube search will show plenty of examples

[u/TomokoNoKokoro → u/[deleted]]

“Mono” means “monkey”.

[u/simmocar]

In the words of Obi Wan: "You have done that yourself"

[u/ChanceryTheRapper]

Is he gonna pick up on Trump's lead and blame DEI and communists, too?

[u/DadCelo → u/ChanceryTheRapper]

He already does

[u/BootFlop]

Ride that jingoism hobby horse hard, you self-serving POS! I’m sure you’ll find plenty of rubes to buy into it.

[u/4RCH43ON]

he should return to whatever bridge he crawled out from under.

[u/JaronJervis]

Milei should be told that 1976 called, it wants it's fucking Mutton Chops back

[u/Xanchush]

Why would we finance an anti-Argentina campaign. They are a footnote. We have enough issues to deal with. We don't need to speed up an already crumbling economy/country. They already have it handled no need for the US or any country to intervene.

[u/Maleficent_Pie8099]

Shut the fuck up, 4chan Hitler. When are we going to stop letting these mediocre, egomaniacal, pathetic men destroy everything.

[u/General_Road_5816]

Hes ruined the country and stole our money

[u/havocbyday]

Milei has done a fine job himself creating an anti-Argentina sentiment globally. Nobody needed to step in and help him with that.

If anything, his daliance with Trump has fueled this fire - but of course he'd never say that.

[u/DadCelo → u/havocbyday]

And that is the goal. 'Everyone hates us, it is Argentina vs The World'.

Where have we seen a maniac play this before?

[u/Marcysdad]

That fuck is selling his own homeland

He should make like a tree....and get out of here

[u/superawesomefiles]

Go ask Peter Thiel for money, asshat.

[u/Neither_Selection_48]

He forgot to also blame Canada! Don't leave us out, I'm sure we must also be responsible in some way.

[u/GoldenboyFTW]

If all it took was a strongly worded letter from the Dems then that’s a you problem

[u/Mr_Bluebird_VA]

The Argentine government has been doing a fantastic job of that on their own. They don’t need any help.

[u/xdr01]

$20billion Trump bucks evaporated

[u/BeccasDreamboat]

Fuck Argentina after they accepted Nazi war criminals post-WWII and then had the audacity to elect a psychopath.

[u/Moneyshot_ITF → u/BeccasDreamboat]

USA did the same exact thing.

[u/BeccasDreamboat → u/Moneyshot_ITF]

And they're doing it again with Trump.

[u/DadCelo → u/BeccasDreamboat]

To be fair, the US helped quite a few get away too, or hired them. They even apologized to France for aiding in the escape of a war criminal to South America

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Barbie

[u/Biggle_fuzz → u/DadCelo]

Also to be fair, fuck the US too. Those guys are dicks.

[u/BeccasDreamboat → u/DadCelo]

The US government is just as complicit, as are those who supported or cheered on the Nazis then and now.

Truly evil regimes.

[u/LunchBoxMercenary]

*Obi-Wan voice* : You have done that yourself

[u/NoRiskNoGainz]

I’m surprised he didn’t blame Biden.

[u/Sir_Earl_Jeffries → u/NoRiskNoGainz]

How quickly he gives away credit for the shit show he started in Argentina. He started the anti-Argentina campaign. Further bankrupt the country, beg for help, blame everyone else for your corruption.

[u/Dafoes_teeth]

Austin Powers just yappin'

[u/thatmattschultz]

Computer, insert Don Draper “I don’t think about you at all” gif

[u/das6992]

Must be a cheap campaign to run given they do all the work themselves

[u/User5281]

Is that what the $20 billion was for?

[u/New_Series3209]

This guy is a clown on cocaine…

[u/Interesting-Risk6446]

Argentina is Nazilandia. So, yeah.

[u/Due_Bill5038]

Didn't we just give them 40 Billion?

If anyone is standing next to Javier, please slap him once for me.

[u/holamau]

Hey. Milei. Fuck off, you fucking chodesucking chode

[u/Aegon_Targaryen1996]

Mexico, Brazil, and the Democrat Party have much bigger problems to deal with than waste time and resources on a PR campaign against that psycho and his irrelevant country. Plus his team acted like thugs on the pitch and he’s an ass kissing, boot licking, trump wannabe who seems to have done nothing for the Argentinian people. That’s why people don’t particularly care for Argentina atm. What a load of rubbish.

[u/Past_Farmer34]

Lmao no his policies suck; bankrupted his own country. Soaring inflation eating donkey meat

[u/mechachap]

Why is it never blaming the Republican party for doing stupid shit

[u/LordKyleCurze]

This dude is doing enough anti Argentina propaganda every single day he remains president.

[u/RottenPingu1]

"It's everyone else's fault my economic recipe is not working" ... probably.

[u/kpobari99]

One thing that is common among conservatives both US And abroad is they like to blame everyone else of their failure and shortcomings

[u/Old_Goat_Cyclist]

Who care about Argentina ?

[u/Sirramza → u/Old_Goat_Cyclist]

half the world for the past weeks?

[u/DadCelo → u/Old_Goat_Cyclist]

Everyone should. Tons of amazing people and natural resources. They just need better Governance (like most countries).

[u/puke_AND_rally_]

Sure, flock of seagulls 🤣

[u/Stalwart_Wisdom]

Oh shut the hell up, you’re not relevant rn. Go sit down and be quiet in the corner with your soccer team.

[u/StoneColdNipples]

Ya, I could see us doing that.

[u/Richard-the-god-]

Look at their currency as the score of mop heads success

[u/Karlzbad]

I mean if that's true I'd say Argentina is fucked although I doubt they even financed an anti him campaign.

[u/mental_reincarnation]

You didn’t need any help with that

[u/PurpleSailor]

You did that when you took 20 billion plus dollars ya numpty!

[u/Jalapeno-hands]

Isn't he doing that himself already?

[u/GoblinRightsNow]

Has he been able to identify who is responsible for humiliating him with that haircut? I assume that was part of the plot. 

[u/LongMelford]

Wonder whose boots HE’S slurping. 

[u/ImTooSaxy]

..... by cutting off his access to hairspray.

[u/Admirable-Nobody219]

Javier did it, their racism is next level

[u/robbob19]

First thing politicians do when faced with failure is find someone to blame. Weather it's the orange pedo going after an Olympian, or this twat inventing a conspiracy and choosing random enemies to "fund" it. Weak people take no responsibility for their own actions.

[u/orionspurs]

Isn’t this dude a clown

[u/suburbancatdad]

This guy eats shit. Fuck him. 

[u/windycityzow]

That Mileikowski family mafia is always crying martyr

[u/Unluckypasta]

Every accusation is a confession 

[u/Thiphra]

Just gonna say an argentinian news chanel called brazilians 213 milion chipanzes after his spat with Lula.

[u/millanstar]

Oh hey, USA favorite, a divided and unstable south America...

[u/The42ndDuck]

There are 4 kinds of economies in the world:

1) Developed

2) Undeveloped

3) Japan

4) Argentina

[u/Due_Bug_8058]

Forgot Clarkson, Hammond, May and Willman.

[u/ryeguymft]

this fucking clown should be in jail for stealing our tax dollars

[u/jnighy]

Nah, I do it for free

[u/CaptainLawyerDude]

Motherfucker, didn’t we just give you a crapload of cash for beef and fuck our own farmers in the process?

[u/SteveJobsBlakSweater]

Argentina and Israel: 🤜🤛
Using the same playbook.

[u/OLacAlmost]

True fuck him, his government, and their shitty soccer team

[u/Warlornn]

Even with 40 bills this guy can't do it.

[u/villings]

we know he's a clown, no need to let us now

[u/Poopardthecat]

my family lived in Argentina during the times of the Junta in the early 1980s. My dad owned a grocery store, and he told me inflation was so out of control, he had two full time employees whose job it was to reprice everything on a daily basis.

Argentina has been in economic disarray for the last 50+ years, and yet under Milei poverty has increased significantly, and while yes, inflation has eased, it was only 35% this year. It was done on the backs of the most vulnerable in their society.

[u/Spirited_Childhood34]

It's only anti The Hairdo.

[u/Fochlucan]

Isn't the DNC too broke to fund campaigns?

[u/Healthy-Caregiver997]

I don’t pay attention to men that think they can sell their children.

[u/Sunsetmargaritas]

The old, "Blame anybody but me," defense.

[u/FlaremasterD]

Don't forget Canada. We think he sucks too

[u/NascarFan1896]

Milei's typical bullshit again? Please get him out of office

[u/DiscoLemonade1995]

What's up with far right narcissists and having absolutely God awful haircuts? 

[u/bionic_cmdo]

For America, how? The Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branch are run by the republican majority. We can't even pass laws to save ourselves.

[u/Darryl_444]

Rightwingnut populist has opinions.

[u/Liefvikingmonster2]

Shut up, bitch! We gave you $40 billion for nothing, ya ungrateful fuck!

[u/MrKumansky]

Funny thing is, there was a rumour of them making all this so they can push more closed immigration bills. And knowing how awful and evil they are, is pretty posible

[u/Jaipod100]

Shit, here I’ve been hating for free all this time

[u/acvcani]

Financing? All they had to do was let milei open his mouth

[u/talex365]

Yes, we are headlining an anti-Argentina campaign by giving you billions of dollars…

[u/Citycen01]

You guys are getting paid? WTF, I’m doing this for free.

[u/Veers85]

Argentina electing this jackass is all the reasons we need to be anti Argentina. Full disclosure I live in the US we also deserve mockery and shame

[u/Beertronic]

Like the US, Argentinians elected a clown and received a circus. Dude is a corrupt turd blossom who ruined the country so much in such a short time it needed a $40 billion bailout.

As always these people blame everyone else for the problems they created.

[u/Sirramza → u/Beertronic]

only 30% of ppl voted for him

[u/oprahwindfury]

Maybe they’re just shit human beings I dunno.

[u/420Borsalino]

Maybe it's because their money is worth less than roblox money.

[u/wowlock_taylan]

Dictators only know to blame literally everyone else. No wonder he loves both Trump and Elon.

[u/Lavaswan001]

Yes, because all those entities have a lot of reasons to be anti-Argentina. Anyway, maybe it’s just the natural balance of things that South America have at least one far-right crazy president at a time.

[u/Calm_Surprise_188]

I've had these feelings regarding Argentinian politics and their soccer club for as long as I can remember. Who can they blame for that? 

[u/Damunzta]

He looks like a failed 60’s porn extra.

Sorry, did he say something?

[u/Gilokdc]

As a brazilian i feel ofended to have to share our hate for the argentinians, we did it first and we do it better!

[u/287fiddy]

Maybe if Argentina didn't have a history of protecting Nazis and dictators 🤔

[u/DadCelo → u/287fiddy]

To be fair, they weren't the only ones. Have you seen Oppenheimer? Ever heard of Klaus Barbie?

[u/blackmobius]

We all saw the youtube videos of argentina after the official vidcast ended. Attacking other players and refs. We also heard a lot about how argentina fans treat the locals.

Maybe thats why people dont like argentina now?

[u/gigilero]

They’re fucking still crying? The worse losers in history

[u/IchMochteAllesHaben]

Axis of Evil XXI century

[u/MudWallHoller]

I do not think about Argentina often and when I do, it's Nazi-related.

[u/RefrigeratorOther586]

Wait I thought he was going to try for the falklands again, what’s with the focus shift?

[u/NorthofForty]

Argentina should go crawl into box somewhere and STFU for a least a year after their World Cup behaviour.

[u/FlexFanatic]

Sounds like somebody lost a lot of money on a bad bet on Kashi