By Atilio Borón. On December 5, 2025 from Buenos Aires
Argentinean President Javier Milei kissing up to Trump. foto: Buenos Aires Times
In another gesture that confirms him as the empire’s biggest bootlicker, Javier Milei’s government demanded that the International Criminal Court in The Hague immediately issue an arrest warrant for Nicolás Maduro and other senior officials of the Bolivarian government.
It is at least curious, or perhaps laughable, that the “regime”, which in the last two years has destroyed the institutions of democracy, trampled on the separation of powers, run roughshod over the National Congress, whose laws are not only vetoed but simply disobeyed, and which keeps under its control an absurd three-member Supreme Court that watches with scandalous indifference as the Republic is destroyed, should now arrogate to itself the right to demand the arrest of the Venezuelan president.
This demand is laughable when one recalls the dubious ethical credentials of the government. There are people accused of receiving bribes, political hucksters involved in the blatant buying and selling of votes in Congress or public office, officials and candidates with well-oiled links to drug traffickers, or individuals, such as the president himself, who is facing no less than a complaint for his active participation in the $LIBRA crypto scam, which is already looming menacingly in the Southern District Court of New York. It could be that, before Maduro, the US justice system will send Milei to prison.
As if that were not enough, it should be remembered that this self-proclaimed champion of democracy and human rights recently instructed his representative to the UN General Assembly to vote against a resolution condemning torture “at all times and in all places.” Almost all of the countries present, 169, voted in favor of the resolution, four abstained, and three voted against it: the United States, Israel, and… Argentina! In other words, this trio voted to legitimize torture.
Argentina joined the only country that dropped two atomic bombs on two defenseless cities in Japan in August 1945, in the world’s largest terrorist attack, and the neo-Nazi Israeli regime that is perpetrating genocide—and infanticide—in broad daylight in Gaza. The president should be reminded that the ICC has an arrest warrant for his friend, serial killer Benjamin Netanyahu, but that with the collapse of the legal and institutional order established after World War II, various countries, especially the United States, are welcoming the Israeli prime minister, completely ignoring the ICC’s warrant, at least for now.
The future mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, has stated that he would proceed with his arrest if Netanyahu were to visit that city in the future. There is also another warrant, issued against Vladimir Putin, as a result of enormous pressure from NATO and the European Union, which dream of “regime change” in Russia and foolishly believe that this could be achieved by imprisoning its president. Another, perhaps less cerebral or more daring, would take his place, much to Europe’s misfortune. In any case, unlike Netanyahu, the ICC arrest warrant has imposed severe restrictions on Putin’s ability to travel abroad.
The request made to the ICC is the latest link in a long list of horrors committed by the Argentine Foreign Ministry, clearly in the hands of clumsy amateurs imbued with the president’s colonial vocation. The various votes in the UN General Assembly and other United Nations bodies have seriously compromised the alliances cultivated over decades by governments of very different political persuasions with the aim of enabling the peaceful recovery of the Malvinas Islands.
With Milei, all that work has been thrown away. Argentina is increasingly isolated and disrespected in the world, turned into a colorful vassal of the United States and Israel—incidentally, technically two “rogue states” due to multiple violations of UN provisions—ready to obey the slightest wishes of its mentors.
If Washington wants to attack Venezuela and capture Maduro, Milei shamelessly echoes the voices of his masters. If the goal is to remove China from Latin America and the Caribbean, Milei tries by all means to please the White House, even if this seriously undermines our national interest.
The rejection of the BRICS invitation to Argentina is another example of the nonsense to which the president’s delusional fanaticism and the ineptitude of our Foreign Ministry lead. Now, the White House’s order is to attack Venezuela, and there is Milei, saluting and complying with what is asked of him.
He ignores a wise phrase attributed to Henry Kissinger when he said that “being an enemy of the United States is dangerous, but being a friend is fatal.” The attacks on the Israeli embassy and the AMIA in response to the policy of automatic alignment with the United States during the Menem era, “las relaciones carnales” (carnal relations), prove the accuracy of Kissinger’s phrase.
What price will Argentina have to pay when the catastrophic outcome of this second and heightened version of carnal relations occurs?
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