Crescent International
As the west-centric global order is undergoing a shocking overturn in Europe (Ukraine), Africa (Niger) and West Asia (Palestine), it seems South America will also experience something similar in the near future.
While the corporate media has been fixated on the economic flamboyance of Argentina’s new President Javier Milei, behind his economic populism lies a bigger struggle for the future of South America.
The first to understand this phenomenon are the zionist mouth pieces.
Many among the zionist elite placed unrealistic hopes in Milei’s flamboyant pro-zionist stances.
Writing in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz on December 26, Tel Aviv University professor Raanan Rein highlighted the following point in relation to Milei’s populistic plans.
“Many in Argentina’s Jewish community hope they don’t get blamed if the new president’s libertarian ideas fail.”
Rein’s take on Milei from across the ocean and the new president’s own grandiose statements against China and Venezuela show that the outcome of his policies will have ramifications beyond Argentina.
Success or failure of Milei’s presidency is slowly but surely acquiring geostrategic symbolism.
To understand where the continent of South America stands today and where it is heading, it is important to take a brief look at the year 1967.
In November of that year, when Che Guevara was murdered in the jungles of Bolivia, the South American continent was infested with US backed death squads enforcing Washington’s arrogantly imposed political framework.
It was called the Monroe Doctrine.
This doctrine established South America as an exclusive sphere of US’s geopolitical influence.
Today, in many South American countries leftist movements admiring Che exercise great influence within and outside of the government and have become powerful through popular mobilization and ballot boxes.
Contemporary South America is everything US imperialism wished it would not be.
Just as the continent was cementing its anti-imperialist political identity with the honorable stance against the ongoing genocide in Palestine, Milei’s ascension to power offered some hope for reviving the US favored political trend.
Milei’s presidency is not the only crucial event on the troubled continent which signals political tremors of strategic importance.
On December 3, Venezuela held a referendum to assert its interests on the oil-rich territory long ruled by Guyana.
Guyana enjoys US backing where American corporations have been actively involved in the oil sector since 2015 including the disputed territory of Essequibo.
Events currently unfolding in Venezuela and Argentina will have wider ramifications.
Other global actors who are pushing back against US hegemony will use these developments to advance their own interests.
It is unrealistic to assume that as Washington trespasses on the geopolitical sphere of influence of other regional powers, these powers will remain passive and not react.
They will take steps to challenge the US.
At the very least, they will attempt to neutralize US mischief-making.
Take the case of Russia and Islamic Iran.
Both have strong relations with Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba.
This points to the fact that the days when the US was able to enforce its Monroe Doctrine via threats or coups are over.
As South America charts its own destiny with determination, the continent which experienced decades of US imperialism will naturally drift towards poles of influence pushing back against American hegemony.
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