Sure, but Milei is also a very skilled orator and knows how to work crowds and chooses his policy positions, in part, to help build solidarity with Argentines towards his primary goal, which is the destruction of the Argentine Central Bank. Kissing babies is just part of the job, and what that looks like from one part of the world, to another, varies.
Exactly. Hence, tempest in a teapot.
There is be no doubt in my mind that Milei is not merely what he presents himself to be. Nevertheless, there is also no doubt in my mind that he's completely serious about transforming the Argentine economy, and is going to do so, and I don't give a damn about peripheral issues unrelated to that because when the Argentine economy is transformed more or less overnight as though by a miracle, by founding it on sound money, and so on, this is going to become one of the biggest breaker bars in political debate over economic policy, ever. The communists have had nearly two centuries to prove their "theories", at the cost of hundreds of millions, maybe billions, of needless human deaths. It was still never yet "done right" according to them. As long as Milei stays on the straight-and-narrow, economically, Argentina
will be transformed back into an economic powerhouse even greater than it was before its own experiment in socialism (which is soft-communism) destroyed them and their economy. And the body-count will be approximately zero. In fact, a boom in economic prosperity is invariably associated with a population boom, as well, which is why the God-hating, anti-human Marxist globalists do not want actual prosperity. The Marxist "utopia" exists somewhere just above the line of subsistence,
even in their own writings. In fact, it's such a hard problem in Marxist theory ("what will we do with all the abundance after we eliminate the capitalist bourgeoisie parasites?") that I recall reading one 19th-century Marxist writer who basically called for a cease-and-desist on all socialists/communists writing about such questions. The real reason for this is that the non-idiots among them know that Marxism does not result in increased prosperity and, even if it did, it would be inherently undesirable to Marxist "utopia"... it would be better to burn the excess of production that could raise the proletariat too far above the line of subsistence because if they begin to have too much leisure, this creates a space in which discontent can breed, and a counter-Marxist revolution could take hold.
These people are sick.
Anyone who is opposing that, has my axe. Doesn't mean I see the world their way, but this is Argentina, not America. If they succeed in transforming their economy, they will still be less than the size of the economy of one of our smaller states, so there's no comparison. In other words, Argentina has no actual say in what happens in Ukraine or Israel. But their people may have their own opinion on those conflicts, and that is valid. I'm as opposed to Zelensky as anyone can be, but I respect the sympathy the Argentines have for Ukraine. After all, civilians are dying there, and it's not their fault that is happening. I don't think Putin is strategically wrong, but I still hate to see civilians die, regardless of whose technical fault it is. It's always the "elites" who do the fighting, while us common folk do the dying.
), this is probably the most reasonable and thoughtful thing I've ever seen you post here. 
I was just sharing my thoughts on what I see saw as some weirdness. What I think about any of that is inconsequential.
