Since taking office, Argentine "madman president" Milley has always adhered to an extremely pro-US policy, refused to join the BRICS mechanism, promoted comprehensive economic liberalization, and surrendered to the United States with a firm "anti-China" stance on many sensitive issues. Now, he's got his reward: $40 million in military financing.
Argentina "fully closes" to NATO
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, CIA Director Burns, and US Southern Command Commander Richardson gathered in Buenos Aires to finalize a major event with Milley: Argentina will apply for NATO's "global partner" status, becoming the second NATO global partner in South America after Colombia.
NATO's so-called "global partnership" refers to a form of cooperation between NATO and countries outside the framework, and the global partners we are familiar with include Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and Japan, as well as Mongolia, which is sandwiched between China and Russia, and Pakistan, which we commonly call "Pakistan Railway", which is also NATO's global partner. Relying on these relations, NATO is promoting its "globalization" strategy, and in this context, Milley brought Argentina, the second largest country in South America, to defect, and the United States, the big boss of NATO, is of course happy to see it.
Milley
In order to curry favor with NATO, two days ago, Milley and the Danish government finalized the purchase of 24 F-16 fighter jets at a price of $320 million. We all know that Argentina has wanted to buy "Thunder" fighters from China for many years, and now it has turned to buy a batch of F-16 classic aircraft that have been in service for more than 30 years, and this is the sincerity of Milley. As soon as the news came out, the United States was ecstatic and blocked Argentina from buying the "Thunder" for so many years, but it did not expect that Argentina would change its president and get it done so quickly.
Biden was also very happy, and immediately approved a $40 million military aid to Argentina, saying that it was a special subsidy reserved by the United States for "important partners". This money will not be directly given to Argentina, and will be mainly used to purchase American-made weapons and equipment, personnel training, and various services, such as the F-16 that Argentina just bought, which needs to train pilots, and the training cost will be deducted from the 40 million.
Argentina hugged the thigh of the United States and bought 24 F16s for $300 million
The United States claimed that this was the first time that Argentina had received US military aid since 2003, and Milley was also quite grateful to Biden. A few days ago, Zelensky complained that the United States and the West "pampered" Israel so much, but ignored Ukraine, which is really not interesting, and the treatment that Argentina is getting now is even more poking Zelensky's lungs.
First of all, this batch of F-16s sold by Denmark to Argentina, as planned, was supposed to be given to Ukraine. Denmark was the first country in Europe to promise to send F-16s to Ukraine, which could be delayed from August 2023 to January this year, postponed to April, and finally sold fighter jets.
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Secondly, the United States' military aid to Ukraine has been interrupted for a long time. The $60 billion appropriations bill has been stuck in Congress since September last year, and it has never been given. At that time, the Ukrainian army still had some ammunition stocks on the front line and could hold it, but with the loss of Avdeyevka, an important town in eastern Ukraine, and after the "Moscow terrorist attack", the Russian army retaliated against Ukrainian energy infrastructure, and the signs of the Ukrainian army's rout became more and more obvious.
I estimate that in two days, Zelensky will be interviewed by the US media again, or when recording a video, he will denounce the Western allies for being slow in aiding and abandoning Ukraine, but this is also a helpless thing, you can't support yourself, and the surplus grain of the landlord's family can't be given to you.