“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.