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2. They're already calling the Argentine bailout "Trump's Financial Vietnam"

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sat Oct 25, 2025, 07:52 PM

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Over $2 billion of our taxpayer money has already been blown on this boondoggle - and to almost no effect, financially or politically.

Tomorrow's Argentine midterms are almost sure to be a real shellacking for Milei and his "narco-capitalist" coalition.

(two Milei congresscritters are confirmed narcos - and Milei shares a lawyer with Fred Machado, the biggest drug trafficker in Argentine history)

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