Dan McCarthy sees clever strategic calculation in Donald Trump’s seemingly haphazard bullying of Latin America. In going relentlessly after drug-funded thugocracies like Venezuela while buttering up – and if need be propping up – friendly leaders like Argentina’s Javier Milei, writes McCarthy in Jewish World Review, Trump is attempting to shape a Latin America that isn’t “forever plagued by cartels, communists and Chinese influence.”

Javier Milei Makes Fools of the “Experts”
As it began looking like Javier Milei might actually be elected President of Argentina, more than 100 leading international economists warned that this “far-right” political “wrecking ball” would “cause ‘devastation,’ spike inflation, expand poverty, and unemployment.” But as David Harsanyi relates in the Washington Examiner, Milei has tamed inflation, balanced the budget, shrunk the bureaucracy, deregulated the economy, driven down poverty and repaid billions in U.S. loans. And now, Harsanyi notes, Argentina is starting to boom.

