Argentina's midterm election hands decisive win to Milei's libertarian overhaul

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11. True. The heist "worked" because those poor dolts were voting with a gun to their heads

Bessent and the other Trump cronies who arranged all this, were no doubt instructed by Milei's goons about that very weakness among Argentines: a PTSD-like fear of losing their savings.

And milk it they did.

Some $2 billion worth of Argentine pesos were bought by the U.S. Treasury to prop up Milei. If they were sold overnight - combined with panic-selling in Argentina itself - it would create a 2001-style crash and collapse.

It's no secret down there that the 6-point deficit for Milei's LLAcoalition in election-eve polls, was turned around overnight into a 6-point victory thanks mostly to that very fear:

that Trump would bark an order to Bessent to "dump those pesos!" had LLA lost.