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Dude is going to commit suicide by stabbing himself multiple times in the heart. There's no way he lives out his term by pulling stunts like this.
They'll find a nice boring buttoned-up CIA sponsored conservative to replace him.
He's going to dollarize the country, he is the CIA-sponsored neocon
it's mercs all the way down
Naked Capitalism laid out why Milei’s dollarization plan is likely to fail:
yeah but it's non-negotiable though
I guess the big question you have to ask is whether Biden holds Argentina in as high esteem as he holds Ukraine. My guess is that he does not.
That's why Joe is spinning between Hitler detector and color swatch
I don't know, it's like the CIA grew this guy in a lab.
Nah. Poppy Bush was a CIA creature. Obama was a CIA creature. Milei is some freakish hybrid of Birchers and Randroids. He doesn't understand how any of the machines of government keep his constituencies in a position to support him.
Gutting the Argentinian bank might be superficially awesome for the US (assuming you squint and convince yourself cheap Argentinian exports are what Americans really hunger for). But its going to completely fuck over the domestic bourgeois. You're going to have fascist riots under Milei inside two years, tops.
Between this and the rise of fascists everywhere I'm so concerned about our future as leftists.
Its not just fascists, as American officials in Bolivia and Ecuador discovered.
But there is a real struggle between the core ideas of economic reform and social revolution, wherein folks who are comfortable but nervous despair at their future while folks who are desperate and ambitious seek to navigate an inevitable change on the horizon.
Its good for domestic billionaires, because it creates an export-oriented market that rewards denuding the local economy in exchange for an internationally recognized foreign currency.
But its awful for local business owners, landlords, and political families, who are still stuck servicing the enormous foreign debts on pain of losing their domestic assets to foreign creditors. Also awful for anyone with a large stash of Argentinian Pesos, or debts denominated in Pesos, because this will only accelerate devaluation of the old currency. In the short term, Milei's proposals are going to ramp up inflation, as people try to get their hands on dollars before the state stops recognizing pesos having any value at all.