“STRATEGIC SECURITY”

The triumph of the left in Chile changes London's strategic priorities in the South Atlantic Could a Buenos Aires-Santiago-East axis be created?

 

Sir Charlattam

Where the hell is Argentina standing in the current international chaos? This question arose after my meeting with an old colleague who still has direct sources within White Hall and even boasts of having them in “Westminster” but I listen carefully because sometimes I anticipate events with astonishing precision that Parliament would deal with days later.

This is how I met “Tweegy” (pseudonym) an old flat mate from the times of action, in a Waterloo pub not far from the bridge that crosses Big Ben where we got to chat about this COVID situation and the restrictions that Boris's doctors are trying to reinstall. With his mobile phone in his hand, he seems to have it stuck, yelling: “Stupid” he told me with complete confidence, to keep telling me “many German virologists and from here they are denouncing that the government inflates the figures and the severity of the variant.” Throughout 2020 while all the morons were being held in our homes in fear of the terror campaign of the “deadly Chinese virus”, the Royal Navy and the RAF did not stop their operations abroad. Nothing new for me.

We usually exchange information and points of view of our respective situations and it is there that I tell him what is happening in Buenos Aires and he tells me what they see in London about Argentina. The first thing I said to him was “Argentina has no future except, as a mere protectorate” to interrupt me by asking myself "From whom?" I clarified that it was a way of saying, but I explained that it is a sensation that can be breathed in Buenos Aires when you walk through its streets.

So I asked him: Have you heard the news about Fernández and his foreign policy?

“At the moment Argentina is not a concern for Downing street 10, much less for the Foreign Office,” he told me with his customary stern gesture that reveals his years in the special branch of naval intelligence. “For now, the victory of Gabriel Boric in Chile is a higher priority and, according to what I have been told, it is not something that will take away the sleep of Boris's intelligence chiefs.” I just stared at him and intending to let him see that he was listening attentively as he took a sip of my cappuccino to end by saying: “We have our own problems here at home with Boris Cheety monkey and from what I have been knowing, we could have serious problems in the Black Sea ”.

Thus, with the intention of returning him to the Southern Cone, I commented to him about the current political situation that the government of Alberto Fernández is experiencing and its multi-colored political cadres that could lead to a situation of instability that would drag the entire region down.

Leaning back on his chair and like a bouncing ball, he turned on me to say almost whispering in my ear “That will not happen in this government and I think in a few more, I assure you.” His conclusion did not surprise me since for myself I can intuit it being in Argentina. The problem is that this cannot last forever and not because it does not suit the Argentines but because it cannot suit the same bureaucrats in “Downing street 10”.

The problem in Argentina is the same as everywhere else, corruption, only there no one controls anyone. Those in the opposition are as incompetent as thieves and the current rulers are as plutocratic as they are incompetent, so with whom the hell can Argentine citizens get out of this quagmire? With the irony that characterizes him, he told me “Argentine politicians are better at destroying their institutions than any of our moles could achieve and thanks to them, no one has damaged their own institutions like themselves.” There is a disaster in that country and this is due to a lousy approach on how to face the political situation aggravated by the lack of a strategic agenda.

Strategic agenda? Those terms are very strange in Argentina. They all have a price and if politicians lost their few scruples they would not hesitate to queue at the embassy in Buenos Aires in broad daylight to ask for money. It's embarrassing enough for Geoffrey Kent (a true gentleman) himself to feel like some second-line journalists and politicians lick his ass.

“What can you tell me about that?” He asked me interested and I replied that there was nothing new on the table and that the only thing that had been discussed were some very minor and inconsequential acquisitions from the Chinese but nothing more. So he asked me “Airplanes, missiles, ships?”, I did not answer him at all, if they had acquired any of those toys they would already know about it in “Vaux Hall Cross”. Don't you think so?

As things are in the region, London can feel confident that there will be no shocks. The commie from the Fernández government in Buenos Aires and those who will take office in Santiago de Chile are not a threat to the stability of the South Atlantic. Both are puppets that are moved by the same threads. The previous reports on the strong support in southern Chile for the leftist candidate did not cause any concern among the high command of the Chilean Defense Staff or in the naval units of Punta Arenas and the explanation is simple, nothing has changed in Chili.

This could change if both countries in a coordinated way decide to approach China and Russia more decisively, which have been in talks these days to take an common geopolitics based on cooperation and good neighborliness to face the persistent and impertinent interference of the United States. We know that the Argentine government is not consistent in its ideological political position (because it does not know what it believes) with its actions, but we do not know anything about what will be the mettle of the young Boric who, on the contrary, has shown with his statements greater (that It reminds me a lot of Jeremy Corbin) ideological political commitment to complex issues such as the situation in Palestine that certainly bothers the Chilean Zionists and their colleagues in Tel Aviv a lot.

From this, Boric could be the spearhead to drag the timid people of Buenos Aires into forming a new common bloc that, well managed, could create a development paradigm that even who knows, could lead to the establishment of a common currency that put the dollar aside.

In conclusion, from all that we talked there was nothing new that could show that Buenos Aires is taking some serious policy to develop a plan to extend any claim that could threaten “Mount Pleasant” in the Falklands but it was a good excuse to meet and take us something.