At the end of last year, Milley, a far-right party in Argentina, was elected as the new president of Argentina. And after Milley took office, he also gave the world a big surprise, that is, in the face of Argentina's serious economic crisis, Milley actually chose "shock therapy".
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After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Yeltsin also used shock therapy to save Russia's endangered economy at that time, and Western experts at that time preached that it only took two years for Russia's economy to recover quickly and develop healthily.
However, this is not the case, shock therapy, the government completely abandons economic control, then the country's assets will inevitably be lost to foreign capital or seized by domestic business oligarchs, which also leads to a huge disparity between the rich and the poor in the country.
In Russia at that time, Western countries were able to buy a Russian energy company for only tens of millions of dollars. It also caused the rise of oligarchs in Russia, and later when Putin came to power, some oligarchs even dared to face Putin. It's just that these people chose the wrong people, and after Putin's tidying up, these oligarchs either fled abroad, or went to prison, or obediently obeyed.
However, Argentina is not Russia now, and Milley is not Putin. According to data released by the Argentine statistical agency last year, in December last year, Argentina's inflation rate reached 211.4%, when prices rose by 25.5%, the worst level in the last three decades.
Faced with such a situation, Milley actually chose "shock therapy", regardless of whether this method is useful or not, at least it can be seen that Milley is inclined towards Europe and the United States.
Since Milley came to power, he has refused to join the BRICS. Instead, in April this year, an application for membership in the "NATO Global Partnership" was submitted to the NATO Secretary General.
NATO's "Global Partnership" is a partnership given by NATO to some non-member countries. Becoming a NATO "global partner" country gives the country "access to advanced technology, security systems, and training."
At present, there are about eight NATO global partners in the world, and in South America there is only Colombia, and Argentina naturally wants to be the second in South America.
But granting a country the status of a "global partner" does not mean that NATO allies will come to the aid of the countries in the event of an attack on that country, and this commitment to collective defense in NATO's Article 5 is limited to full members of the alliance.
And Milley refused to join the BRICS and instead threw himself into NATO. The intention is also to ask NATO and the United States for money, in view of Ukraine's experience, Argentina saw that the United States generously gave Ukraine tens of billions of dollars in aid, and naturally wanted the United States to help itself. Moreover, as the second largest country in South America, Argentina is still quite influential in South America.
Milley wants to use this as capital to demand from the United States, and if he wants Europe and the United States to recognize him, then he must obtain identity recognition, and naturally becoming a global partner of NATO is the only choice.
It's just that Milley's thoughts, Europe and the United States have seen through it, after all, Europe and the United States are not wronged, they invested so much money in Ukraine before, these countries are very distressed, and now Argentina, which has a bunch of bad debts, is here again, and everyone knows this thought.
And when Milley saw such a situation, he also thought of a follow-up move, that is, to have good relations with China. After Milley came to power, he showed an anti-China attitude and stance, and China previously announced that it had shelved a $6.5 billion currency swap agreement with Argentina.
And now Argentina plans to visit China from the 28th to the 30th of this month, and its purpose is naturally to fight the idea of this money, for this reason, Milley has publicly claimed that he has no intention of changing the 18 billion currency swap agreement between China and Argentina, and will not prevent Chinese companies from doing business with Argentina.
It's just that at the beginning, in order to show goodwill to Europe and the United States, but now that he thinks of China when he is in trouble, Milai is too naïve.