Milei allows use of military domestically, by decree.

[Redpossum]

Milei le suelta la rienda a las Fuerzas Armadas | Con la excusa de "combatir el terrorismo internacional"

A través de un nuevo decreto, el Poder Ejecutivo autorizó el despliegue de militares en sitios que algún funcionario de turno considere "de valor estratégico" para el Estado. Además, permite que el propio Gobierno defina qué considera como "amenazas te...

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Through a new decree, the Executive Branch authorized the deployment of military personnel in places that some official on duty considers to be "of strategic value" for the State. In addition, it allows the Government itself to define what it considers to be "terrorist threats." The CELS warning.​

What are these supposed threats that the State would face? According to the official text, they are all those “related to the destabilization of the State and democratic institutions.” That is, in the face of what Milei’s government could interpret as an attempted coup d’état (a figure of speech that the President used several times to refer to the political debate).

 

[Ries]

I am assuming he needs them to fight off the mob of teenagers with guns.

 

[Canada]

Uh oh that's not good...

 

[Dim Witty]

Yes, and under the guise of policing terrorism and drug smuggling, the US continues to have a military presence at Iguazu, the triple frontier (Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay). It’s simply coincidental that the US is running out of clean water and that area has the largest underground supply (aguifer) in the world. Also, the US army’s in Vaca Muerta with its enormous deposits of shale oil and gas, in Iguazu, too, also with huge deposits of water. But, hey, read the Monroe Doctrine! The US owns the western hemisphere.

 

[Redpossum]

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Milei continues to expand the powers of the Armed Forces​

Milei sigue ampliando las competencias de las Fuerzas Armadas | Nuevo decreto

El Gobierno sigue dando peligrosos pasos para que los militares se involucren en seguridad interior. Ahora amplió el alcance y redefinió las capacidades castrenses ante amenazas de "organizaciones transnacionales". Les otorgó a las Fuerzas la capacida...

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The government continues to take dangerous steps to involve the military in internal security. Now it has expanded the scope and redefined the military's capabilities in the face of threats from "transnational organizations." It has given the Forces the ability to "deter" supposed dangers even in "cyberspace, the electromagnetic spectrum and outer space."​

 

[Ries]

It helps him feel important. In the last few months, I have seen, several times, convoys of luxury cars, escorted by unmarked police cars and fleets of police motorcycles. sirens, flashing lights, running red lights and signalling all traffic to pull over, on Santa Fe, on Nov de Julio, and in the microcentro. In 17 years prior, never saw this.
It makes the teenager feel like a big shot to be chauffered around at high speed this way.
Meanwhile, the same rich families, some of whom are politicians, pave the way for their big companies to make more money and pay less taxes.

 

[Dim Witty]

It helps him feel important. In the last few months, I have seen, several times, convoys of luxury cars, escorted by unmarked police cars and fleets of police motorcycles. sirens, flashing lights, running red lights and signalling all traffic to pull over, on Santa Fe, on Nov de Julio, and in the microcentro. In 17 years prior, never saw this.
It makes the teenager feel like a big shot to be chauffered around at high speed this way.
Meanwhile, the same rich families, some of whom are politicians, pave the way for their big companies to make more money and pay less taxes.

Such as it is, Ries. Thanks for that. The emperor has no clothes.

 

[camel]

Yes, and under the guise of policing terrorism and drug smuggling, the US continues to have a military presence at Iguazu, the triple frontier (Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay). It’s simply coincidental that the US is running out of clean water and that area has the largest underground supply (aguifer) in the world. Also, the US army’s in Vaca Muerta with its enormous deposits of shale oil and gas, in Iguazu, too, also with huge deposits of water. But, hey, read the Monroe Doctrine! The US owns the western hemisphere.

I'm interested in the US military presence at Iguazu - can you post a link with more info?

Regarding fresh water sources, wouldn't the Great Lakes make more sense as a water source since they're local to the US? Wikipedia says, "The Great Lakes are the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth by total area and the second-largest by total volume. They contain 21% of the world's surface fresh water by volume." Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes

For underground water specifically, when I ask Google, "what is the largest underground water source in the world", it says, "The Great Artesian Basin in Australia is the world's largest underground water source, or aquifer"