Spain recalls its ambassador to Argentina over Milei insult

[TWB103]

Whatever one thinks of Milei's behaviour the idea that Sanchez and his wife are innocent victims is ridiculous. Spanish politics is just as corrupt as Argentine politics.

 

[antipodean]

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Politicians are a sensitive and delicate breed worldwide. Shit that shouldn’t happen, does happen time and time again, yet the world somehow manages to move on and the offenders and offended often manage to stay in office.

Spanish politicians are no saints themselves and could also do well to keep their opinions about Argentine politics and politicians to themselves, they won’t, because it this kind of scandal also serves them for their own political campaigning (e.g upcoming European elections in June that Spain’s offended leader, who has in the past thought nothing of publicly trashing other presidents like Nicolas Maduro who is now his new BFF, hopes to win by painting anything right of his own beliefs as a Milei-Trump-eque beast to equally delicate and sensitive voters who simply feed on this kind of injusticia to give their lives some sense of profound identity and meaning, a votes a vote after all…as well as glaze over some pretty serious corruption charges of his wife in the process by playing the victim card)

Milei and his advisors should also be best advised to learn when to keep their mouths shut or expose/ express their dissatisfaction with current events in another country in a more subtle and diplomatic way, or better still leave it to a professional like the chancellor who has a job to do and stop undermining her work.

 

[FrankPintor]

Whatever one thinks of Milei's behaviour the idea that Sanchez and his wife are innocent victims is ridiculous. Spanish politics is just as corrupt as Argentine politics.

You might be right about the corruption. But why do you think it’s in any way relevant?

Let’s review, once again, for those who are slow on the uptake, or are trying to gaslight us and normalise this: Argentina’s president travels to Spain, accepts security and logistical support, snubs both the prime minister and the head of state, interferes in an internal Spanish affair and insults the prime minister’s wife.

This is normal? Reasonable? No.

 

[Quilombo]

Are we forgetting something somewhat important here? This whole debacle got started by the Spaniard saying Milei was using drugs, but before anyone assume i'm defending Milei i must say i am defending the right to defend yourself when attacked, of course it could have been handled differently but Milei decided on this particular course of action, which in my book is not recommended at that high level but also reasonably acceptable.

Far be it from me to tell Milei how to defend himself, but if someone implied or accused me of being a meth/paco head I probably wouldn't double down on my unhinged tweeting, picking fights with random people who weren't involved, continue my personal grooming routines that make me look unkempt, and generally act like an undisciplined child, or, wait for it, someone who regularly abuses drugs given how detached they are from reality they are.

He has that uncanny Argentina skill of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory; all he had to do was put Sanchez in a bind by asking him if he felt the same/was this the official Spanish government's opinion of him, of which he would promptly deny, embarrassing the man who originally said so, but because it's Milei, and maybe because there is some truth in the accusation, he's incapable of such restraint so he ends up looking the ass instead.