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He's doing to America, exactly what he did to his casinos. He didn't run them out of business because he was a terrible businessman (even though he is), it was a deliberate strategy: suck out every penny of profit, declare bankruptcy, and stick all of his creditors with the bills. Rinse, and repeat, over and over.

Now he is doing it with America, allowing all of his Psychopathic Oligarchs to loot America until there is nothing left. We see our beautiful country, but they only see a fat, rich, lazy target to be exploited into bankruptcy.

Israel gets free health care too!

oh, this is not to pay for health care. it is to sustain the carry trade scam that both the american and argentinan goverment are involved in.

Healthcare for Argentina? Milei is destroying public welfare. That's for other oligarchs. $40B in exchange of... Well, Milei is acting unhinged and won't explain, but probably lands, water, lithium. Trump bought something, we just don't know what yet.

Trump needs a plan b

If it helps, here in Argentina, Mr Milei is all in for Israel first

I'm surprised i didn't think of this but that does sound exactly like what they're doing.

Bush Doctrine says we follow them to finish the job this time.

Hell we don't even know where the money is coming from (our Government is shut down right now, remember?) let alone what form the transfer will take.

So, I haven't been getting any answer here myself but in general here's what has been happening.

Aregentina's...idk president? Has been cutting their social program funding and regulation for the last year or two. It's wildly unpopular in his country.

Those cuts in regulation inflated their currency value for a bit but it was temporary.

Now, Aregentina is coming up on an election and the president is at risk of loosing and having his policies reversed.

So this money...it's not actually going anywhere or for anything specific. It's a currency swap. We are kind of giving them a loan. Just giving them money.

Because. Again. The Argentinian President cut tons of stuff and artificially inflated his currency with deregulation.

So Trump sending him money is like a bandaid to get him through his election.

He can point to this influx to show that "his policies are working." They're not. Argentina has had unstable currency for ages.

He's stealing from Peter to pay Paul.

But this is complicated money science and I can't explain in technical terms but that is the jist of it.

I mean, it could work. Javier Milei, The Argentinian President, is trying to get external investors to pump money into he economy so, if nothing else Trump giving him this money signals that he has America's support.

Argentinia also just had a big win with soybean contracts and China.

But in the short term he's essentially doubling down using a loan from his American pal.

It’s a currency swap. Basically, we give them dollars and they give us pesos. Eventually, they could theoretically be swapped back.

Holding dollars is good for them because it shows foreign investors’ confidence in their economy, and allows them to shore up the peso if necessary by using dollars to prop it up through central bank buybacks.

Holding pesos is a high risk for us because the inflation rate has historically been extremely high. $1 US was like 300 pesos five years ago, and it’s more like 1500 today. So if we swap them back down the road, we will probably lose money, since we swapped dollars at $1 = 1500 pesos, but may swap back later at $1 = 2000+ pesos.

In a way it’s like we gave them an interest free loan. Or actually: more like we gave them a loan with a negative interest rate. Because we likely lose money the longer they hold it.

Why would we do this? Because Milei says lots of nice things about the orange man on TV.