A PLEASANT VISIT

James Cameron's arrival in the Falkland Islands poses a troublesome dichotomy for the Argentine government: will we continue to be pro-British?

 

By Sir Charlattam 

There is no doubt that Argentina has radically changed its geopolitical stance, which some believe is much bolder and more dangerous than the one adopted in the 1990s by the neoliberal government of Carlos Menem. In just a few hours the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will arrive in Buenos Aires as a way of counterbalancing the working tour of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov who is in the region; the year is just beginning and it is a very hot one.

Today in the Casa Rosada there is an administration that has become obsequiously and obscenely aligned with US geopolitics and especially with that of Israel, so much so that they have wasted no time in condemning the courage of Brazilian president Lula Da Silva for calling things by their name with regard to what is happening in occupied Palestine. A separate chapter deserves the role of the ass-kissing journalists (very similar to those of the BBC) who ardently insult and belittle those who, like Lula, denounce the genocide that Israel is committing against the Palestinian population.

The Argentinean population seems to be zombified and has not yet realised the danger it is in with such a government. Oh, you are probably wondering if, because of these comments, I approve of the previous populist government of Alberto Fernandez and believe me, in foreign policy both are as bad as they are unconscious.

What Milei's government is hiding from its people is the close military and intelligence cooperation it has begun to extend individually with some NATO members, especially France and Britain, to see how Argentina can (in exchange for economic and commercial benefits) help in the Ukraine affair. But Javier Milei seems to be ill-informed about the degraded economic situation of the EU and especially of these two countries for getting into the eleven-legged shirt put on them by Washington.

In the midst of an unstoppable economic recession the rebellion of French and also British farmers is cornering both Macron and the shoddy banker Rishi Sunak and preventing any grain deal with Mercosur.

But despite these complications, Milei seems to be persistently intent on pandering and meddling in what is happening in Ukraine, especially inspired by his admiration for Volodymyr Zelensky as a Jew, a figure placed by the Jewish oligarchs of Odessa ideologically close to war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu and sponsored by the White House.

In short, there is nothing to be astonished about this and even less so, with the alignment that Milei is also carrying out with the openly racist and Islamophobic European ultra-right (such as the Spanish) which (coincidentally) aligns itself in support of the genocide perpetrated by Israel in Gaza and the pro-Nazi regime in Kiev under the umbrella of NATO led from behind by Washington.

It is all a circle and the relations that Milei is forging with the Atlanticist power will lead him like the yellow road of "Alice in Wonderland" to the main centres of global power that in reality (and perhaps without him knowing it) put him where he is today.

In this context, one cannot be surprised that anything to do with Argentine sovereignty and self-determination is off the agenda of this government, let alone when such issues upset its admired role models. If you had the chance to ask any old coal miner or steelworker in Sheffield to tell you what "Maggie" did with their lives they might not talk the way they do. To any Argentinian she is an old bitch from hell, though she doesn't look like one to the Anglophiles who second Javier Milei. But in Argentina, obsequiousness is a national sport and does not distinguish between parties. How could the foreign ministry of this openly Atlanticist government criticise one of its members?

The sudden arrival in the Falkland Islands of British Foreign Secretary David Cameron is the most graphic example of this. Despite the fact that it was already known in diplomatic circles that Cameron and a group of his advisers were making an incursion, the Argentine representation in London said nothing. If there is one thing that for Argentine Anglophiles takes precedence over the interests of their own country, it is not to lose face with the Foreign Office, and that is why they kept their mouths shut.

This is how it went almost unnoticed by ordinary Argentines, for the simple reason that the Anglophile media in Buenos Aires took it upon themselves to make it almost unnoticeable. But is there something else behind this trip? Cameron certainly did not make such a long trip for a sightseeing tour. Nor are the apparent intentions to grant the Kelpers some political autonomy sincere. For London, these forgotten inhabitants of these islands are a guarantee of British interests and that means Britain's and no one else's. There are certain movements that have been detected in the UK.

There are certain movements that have been detected in the region, especially over mainland Patagonia, that are linked to the Mount Pleasant air base that have not been aired to the public.

According to reliable sources before Milei arrived at the Casa Rosada, the US Navy fleet under Southern Command was already moving in the South Atlantic alongside the Royal Army, something that in a country with a defence and strategic interests state would have raised alarm bells, but that is not the case in Argentina.

Perhaps the Argentinians do not know it or perhaps their representatives are not interested in them knowing it, but in the current and very complicated circumstances of the war that NATO is waging against the Russian Federation, that sector of the South Atlantic and especially the Mount Pleasant base is of high strategic value as it would play a critical role in a possible nuclear war. That would be the reason why Cameron came to the islands. The problem with this is, do they know all this in Buenos Aires?