Milei 's libertarian regime has intensified a deliberate policy of obscuring and omitting the Malvinas Cause, carrying out actions that, more than oversights, are calculated political gestures that undermine Argentina's historic claim to sovereignty . This behavior is not isolated; it constitutes a worrying thread that culminates in the dangerous offer of the Integrated Naval Base in Ushuaia to the United States , undermining the defense of the South Atlantic and Antarctica.
The “deregulation” of Sovereignty
The latest and most graphic example of this process was the publication, last September, by the Minister of Deregulation and State Transformation, Federico Sturzenegger; from a map of Argentina to georeference pharmacies throughout the country . Controversy immediately erupted because the map blatantly omitted the Malvina Islands .
Although the minister excused himself by citing the lack of pharmacy infrastructure on the islands, the incident was and is being interpreted by journalists as a deliberate political act, in line with an administration that openly seeks to "gradually abandon the claim" in order to prioritize diplomatic rapprochement with the United Kingdom.
The background of an explicit contempt
Sturzenegger's omission adds to a series of actions and statements that constitute a policy of dismantling the sovereign claim:
Bullrich and the vaccines : Throughout the administration, key players in the libertarian regime have expressed positions contrary to the archipelago's historic defense. The infamous phrase of Security Minister Patricia Bullrich , who suggested the idea of "exchanging" the Malvina Islands for COVID vaccines, trivializing the inalienable value of a territory with the sacrifice of veterans.
Espert and Llach: Other allies of the ruling party, economist José Luis Espert and former partner Lucas Llach , have made explicit statements of contempt for the cause. Llach, for example, went so far as to propose "handing over" the islands and the province of Tierra del Fuego, referring to the Malvinas as the "Malvinas" and treating them as an "appendix that makes life more expensive for the people." These denials of sovereignty directly conflict with the historical and constitutional position of the Argentine Republic .
The F-16 radar limitation: Invisibility transcends maps and rumors . In the defense field, the Armed Forces are still deeply unsettled by the purchase of F-16 aircraft from Denmark, which lack radars capable of monitoring the Malvina Islands .
Dear Kosovo , President Milei, with the announcement of the Foreign Ministry itself, allowed himself an official photo with the President of Kosovo, a country that is a strategic ally of the British .
The Link with the Naval Base as an exchange for Credits
All these omissions and denials take on strategic significance in the context of the Ushuaia base. Milei's government, immersed in a desperate search for financial loans and economic support from the United States , has put the Ushuaia Integrated Naval Base on the negotiating table as a virtual "bargaining chip."
The interest in establishing a strategic partnership with the US—seeking membership as a "global partner" in NATO and military support—is directly linked to the cession of control over the South Atlantic. The facts confirm this link and are worth remembering:
And although Guillermo Moreno wants to romanticize the 200th anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine, the combination of internal omissions regarding the Malvinas Islands and the transfer of defense capabilities and territorial control in Ushuaia to a strategic partner of the United Kingdom constitutes an undeniable betrayal of the Sovereign Cause .
Both symbolically and factually, the struggle for sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands is being dismantled, " Tupacamerized," mortgaging Argentina's development in Antarctica and ceding control over the South Atlantic; all in an attempt to obtain financial and political support that subordinates the nation to Anglo-American geopolitical interests. Milei's agenda not only omits the Malvinas Islands; it uses them as a pawn in a game of chess where the big loser is the people of the Argentine nation.
Admiration for Thatcher: The greatest offense to the National Memory
The political dismantling of the Greater National Cause , woven with omissions, denials and the dangerous offer of the Ushuaia base to the US, reaches its climax in the most grotesque and offensive gesture for millions of Argentines: the public and repeated declaration by President Javier Milei as an "admirer" of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan .
His admiration for the former British Prime Minister, the figure responsible for ordering the sinking of the ARA General Belgrano cruiser outside the exclusion zone and waging the war that cost the lives of 649 Argentines in 1982, is not only a provocation, but an open wound and a mockery of veterans, the families of the fallen, and national memory.
The exaltation of Thatcher by an Argentine president is unprecedented . It symbolizes the ideological and moral capitulation of a government that, while ceding military control in the South Atlantic to Britain's strategic partners, pays homage to the executioner of the war .
Sturzenegger's map without the Malvinas, the radar allowed to the United Kingdom in Tolhuin —Melella telephone!—and the base offered to the US Southern Command in Ushuaia, are tactical steps; but admiration for Thatcher is the declaration of principles that explains the underlying policy: the total abandonment of the Malvinas Cause and the subordination of national sovereignty to Anglo-American interests , culminating in a process that deeply wounds the identity and history of the Argentine Republic from end to end .