Argentina’s Foreign Policy: Sovereignty Sacrificed at the Altar of NATO and Zionism

Javier Milei’s anti-establishment rhetoric masks deep loyalty to U.S. and Israeli interests.

Argentine President Javier Milei campaigned as an outsider who promised to take a chainsaw to Argentina’s bloated bureaucracy. However, after assuming office he has governed as Washington’s most reliable partner in South America.

Milei’s administration has taken numerous steps to align Argentina’s interests with those of the United States both in terms of economic and security policy. This has included aggressive economic reforms, a $20 billion IMF package, and a high-profile visit from the U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to signal the United States’ “full support” for Milei’s agenda.

NATO, Fighter Jets, and Foreign Subservience

On matters of national security, Argentina has strangely sought NATO to achieve “global partner” status, pledged to modernize its military to alliance standards, and purchased U.S.-manufactured F-16 fighter jets from Denmark. These are not the actions of a government seeking to shake up the status quo; rather, they are those of a regime content with kowtowing to the United States ‘geopolitical agenda.

And this is only scratching the surface.

Milei’s administration is marked by a shocking level of Jewish and Zionist influence. His spiritual advisor, Rabbi Axel Wahnish, was appointed to serve as ambassador to Israel and has been instrumental in shaping Milei’s public embrace of Judaism and policies favorable to the Jewish state. Foreign Minister Gerardo Werthein, who took his oath on a Torah scroll, has presided over Argentina’s drift toward NATO and its deepening ties with Israel, including cooperation on matters of cybersecurity and intelligence.

Milei’s presidential campaign and government have been bolstered by prominent Jewish donors like Sebastián Braun, whose family is of Azkhenazi Jewish extraction that later converted to Catholicism, and economists such as Julio Goldstein, who has played a key role as an advisor to the Argentine president. Ever the consummate philosemite, Milei’s cabinet meetings reportedly begin with Torah discussions, and he has pledged to convert to Judaism after leaving office.

Foreign Policy Through a Zionist Lens

This alignment is not merely a symbolic gesture. Milei has turned his philosemitic sentiments into concrete policy by reversing Argentina’s historic support for Palestinian statehood at the United Nations, pledged to move the Argentine embassy to Jerusalem, all in lockstep with Judeo-American interests. His devotion to Israel has been so pronounced that he was awarded the Genesis Prize, known as the “Jewish Nobel Prize,” for his “unequivocal support of Israel.”

In some respects, Milei followed in the footsteps of Mauricio Macri (2015-2019), Argentina’s 57th president and a generic conservative that towed the Washington line on foreign policy. Macri designated Hezbollah as a terrorist organization in July 2019, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people. Hezbollah and its Iranian patron have been implicated in the attack.

Nearly five years later, on July 12, 2024, Milei formally designated Hamas as a terrorist group, freezing its assets in Argentina. The Argentine government cited Hamas’ October 2023 attack on Israel and its connection to Iran, which Argentina blames for the 1992 Israeli embassy and the aforementioned AMIA bombings.

Breaking with BRICS: The End of Multipolar Diplomacy

Argentina’s foreign policy has taken a more pro-American bent under Milei, diverging sharply from the course set by his predecessor Alberto Fernández. With respect to foreign policy, Fernández pursued a pragmatic foreign policy, seeking closer ties with BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) and Iran, and had secured an invitation for Argentina to join BRICS.

This multilateral approach was abruptly abandoned by Milei, who withdrew Argentina’s BRICS application on his first day in office, cut off rapprochement with Iran, and openly antagonized Brazil in favor of a stronger alignment with the United States, Israel, and NATO.

Fernández’ overtures to the Eurasian bloc likely spooked Washington and organized Jewry, who saw Fernández’s foreign policy orientation as a threat to the Judeo-American axis’ hegemony and thus had every incentive to support Milei’s rise. Argentina has one of the largest Jewish communities in the Western Hemisphere at over 170,000, placing it in 7th place in terms of countries with the largest Jewish communities. Given the Jewish community’s ability to wield disproportionate influence in Western governments, it’s not a stretch to suggest that Argentine Jewry played an outsized role—with a boost from America Jewry—in getting Milei elected.

Fighting America’s Wars from 8,000 Miles Away

The amusing part about the Milei government’s drift toward the United States is how geographically remote Argentina is from the theaters of conflict that dominate U.S. and NATO priorities. As Ryan McMaken from the Mises Institute noted, the distance from Buenos Aires to Kyiv is over 13,386 kilometers (8,318 miles), and to Jerusalem, 12,756 kilometers (7,926 miles). There is no rational basis— other than ethnic capture of the Argentine government—for Argentina to entangle itself in Middle Eastern conflicts or fall under NATO’s security umbrella.

Yet, Milei has gone out of his way to initially support Ukraine, albeit with a softening of his support in recent months. Further, he has enthusiastically backed Israel in its war on Gaza, even as other Latin American countries have distanced themselves from Tel Aviv. This posture serves neither Argentine security nor economic interests; it is pure subservience to Israeli-American geopolitical priorities.

Javier Milei’s presidency, despite all its theatrics, represents a deepening of Argentina’s integration into the United States-NATO-Israel axis, largely driven by a combination of ideological zeal, and the influence of powerful Jewish networks. Milei’s abandonment of pragmatic, multi-vector diplomacy in favor of dogmatic alignment with the increasingly isolated American-Israeli bloc is a strategic error that risks sacrificing Argentina’s autonomy and long-term development.

Without sovereignty, Argentina will never be more than a mere geopolitical plaything in the hands of a great power like the United States that is obsessed with maintaining global primacy at all costs.

If Argentina is to become truly prosperous, it must take the positive aspects of the East and the West and ultimately chart its own course.

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