The don't see a hint of the irony in that statement it seems...
"the values of freedom, sovereignty and individual rights that characterize Western democracies"
Some of my favorite countries we trade with that meet this requirement include, but are not limited to:
- The United Kingdom (which totally respects Argentina's sovereignty, right?)
- Russia, which is engaged in an active war with Ukraine
- KSA, which had a US permanent resident and journalist murdered/dismembered in it's Turkish consulate while the Crown Prince watched
- Israel, an apartheid state conducting an ongoing genocide
- China, a communist one party state
- The United States, which actively drone strikes children in the Middle Eastern countries it doesn't have permission to conduct operations in
- Canada and Germany, which have done midnight raids against anti-apartheid Jewish protesters
- Spain, which is harboring Isabel Perón, a wanted criminal and material witness for her role in the Annihilation Decrees
Should I go on? If we actually believed this, we'd have to stop trading with ourselves even.
A few weeks ago, a man from Mar del Plata was arrested and accused of smuggling cocaine in Mendoza in bottles of talcum powder. Patricia Bullrich, in her infinite wisdom even Tweeted about it, celebrating the arrest, but
it turned out it was talcum powder, and he was detained for 3 weeks, (not days, weeks) and then dumped on the side of the highway without his DNI without even an apology. Does this seem like the behavior of a "freedom, sovereignty, and individual rights" loving country? It sure as shit doesn't to me...
Anyways, anyone with half a brain knows not only is the embargo stupid, but so would Argentina's support for it out of hypocrisy alone. It has been interesting however to see even the most militant LLA trolls online call Milei a "cuck for America" following Mondino's departure. Even the base doesn't like how submissive the so called "lion" is with Uncle Sam.