Milei turned a terrible Argentine economy completely around in a single year. The man is a genius and deserves to be listened to.
Argentina’s Milei attacks European liberal ‘epidemic’
Argentine President Javier Milei has criticized European leaders and condemned “woke ideology,” branding it an “epidemic” that must be cured. Addressing the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Thursday, he claimed that the “global hegemony” of left-wing politics and ideology is “starting to crumble.”
Making his second appearance at the WEF, the outspoken president defended what he called the traditional values of the West, describing them as “the peak of the human species.”
Milei then doubled down on his “cultural battle” against so-called “wokeism,” a term often used by right-wing political movements to criticize progressive policies addressing social inequalities.
“What once seemed like a global hegemony of the ‘woke’ left in politics, educational institutions, in the media, in supranational organizations or even in forums like Davos, has begun to crumble,” he said.
According to Milei, wokeism seeks to penalize any kind of opposition “because beneath the rhetoric that they so often preach what truly lies is their blatant desire to eliminate dissent, criticism and ultimately freedom so they can continue to uphold a model in which they are the main beneficiaries.”
He took aim at Britain, asking: “Is it not true that right now as we speak, in the UK, citizens are being imprisoned for exposing horrifying crimes committed by Muslim migrants? Crimes that the government seeks to conceal?”
Milei was referring to a wave of protests in the UK last summer against Islam and mass immigration which resulted in large-scale arrests. British authorities responded to the riots in draconian fashion, with more than 1,000 people arrested, 480 charged, and 99 sentenced for their role in the disorder, according to figures published by the BBC.
In Britain, they are releasing child rapists so they can replace them in prisons with people who complain about child rapists.
The Argentine leader, who attended US President Donald Trump’s inauguration last week, also targeted the EU, accusing the bloc of scrapping the presidential election in Romania.
“Didn’t the bureaucrats in Brussels suspend Romania’s elections simply because they didn’t like the party that had won?” he asked.
Romanian right-wing candidate Calin Georgescu, a critic of NATO and the EU and a staunch opponent of sending aid to Ukraine, topped the now-annulled first-round vote in November, beating liberal leftist candidates. Romania’s Constitutional Court suddenly canceled the election ahead of the second-round vote, citing intelligence documents alleging “irregularities” in Georgescu’s campaign performance, which have subsequently been linked to a social media campaign run by one of his opponents.
Milei said that while there is no actual censorship in the West, there is the idea that anyone who doesn’t align with a woke ideology must be silenced.
In Milei’s view, it is an “ideology that has colonized the West, a single thought regime on feminism, diversity, inclusion, immigration, abortion, environmentalism, gender ideology” representing “an epidemic that must be cured, a cancer we need to get rid of.”
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After agreement on gas intake, Hungary signs off on EU renewal of sanctions on Russia
Jan. 27 (UPI) -- The European Union will moved(sic) forward with a renewal on Russian sanctions after a deal was struck with Hungary, according to multiple reports.
On Monday, six diplomats told Politico that the European Union reached a deal with Hungarian officials before its Saturday deadline to extend sanctions on Moscow set to expire on January 31.
The prolongation will, according to an EU official, continue to "deprive Moscow of revenues to finance its war" in Ukraine.
All 27 member EU states are required to reauthorize the sanctions. It now keeps it applied for another six months.
"Russia needs to pay for the damage they are causing," wrote High Representative Kaja Kallas, 47.
Hungry will, in exchange, get a non-committal statement on Ukraine's infrastructure, which sits at the intersection of gas flowing from Russia to other European nations such as Hungary.
A non-renewal of sanctions would otherwise have permitted Russian officials to rake in more than $220 billion in frozen assets via Russia's Central Bank. The sanctions include a series of bans on Russian oil, coal, its tech and finance sectors, luxury goods, transportation, and broadcasting.
The separate European Commission and its high representative described, in a non-binding statement presented Monday to top foreign diplomats, "the integrity of the energy infrastructure" as a "matter of EU security" that other nations should "respect."
"Hungary has received the guarantees it has requested concerning the energy security of our country," confirmed Hungary's Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto as he welcomed a commitment to engage in further talks with Ukraine.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban -- a key ally of President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin -- previously vowed a veto unless Ukraine committed to restart its gas intake from Russia that ended at the start of this year after it was terminated at the end of 2024.
"What is closed now, has to be reopened again," Orban, 61, said during a radio interview. "This is not a matter for Ukraine, it is an issue for Europe, an issue for central Europe," he added.
EU officials have been critical of what was described as Turkey's "transactional" diplomacy.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky refused Orban's request, saying he will not let Russia "earn additional billions on our blood."
Officials in Turkey, meanwhile, offered to act as a hub for the transit of gas.
Orban claimed economic damage despite EU officials who say its more than two dozen states are ready for the transition away from Russian gas amid its nearly three-year war with Ukraine, now aided by North Korean soldiers.
But on Saturday, Zelensky, 47, indicated Kyiv may be ready to ship Azerbaijani gas through its pipeline network as a possible alternative providing it was not to benefit Russia.
"We can use our infrastructure if countries in Europe need gas," the war-plagued leader told reporters. "But not Russian gas."
The European Commission is, however, "ready to continue discussions with Ukraine on the supply to Europe through the gas pipeline system in Ukraine in line with Ukraine's international obligations," officials said in a statement.
"In that context, the Commission is ready to associate Hungary in the process (along with Slovakia)," it continued.
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