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Trump is making progress on the US plan to annex Argentina on the cheap for only $20B, not one shot fired.
Bessent and his oligarch friends stand to reap the most immediate rewards financially, whilst Thiel, Altman and others are more interested in the industrial and extractive uses of the territory.
Funny thing is that Bessent actually is a former Soros man!
Even if Milei loses the legislative mid-terms on October 29th, the US is already "convincing" centrist extremists that annexation / intervention is for their own good, making the very persuasive US case directly, mugging one representative after another, one governor after the next.
An invasion by a different name.
And the idiot Dems don't understand they are not paying for any of it, only confetti money.
So if you take a look at Latin America, it's a spotty look.
Argentina: soon to be annexed
Peru: turmoil, but central bank under control
Bolivia: resisting, but possibly fundamentally broken, a matter of time
Paraguay: taken
Chile: the pseudo-leftie government is about to fall, the far right will take it soon
Mexico: too big, too close, complicated, wait and see
Brazil: a pain in the arse, Bolsonaro didn't work, undermine harder, maybe force it to split.
There's Venezuela too.
I don't believe they can credibly offer any form of military resistance other than possibly urban guerrillas, converting it into a new Palestine. Except Venezuela is a much bigger mid-sized country with a complex geography, and it stands right next to Colombia and Brazil.
No way in hell Brazil are going to stay quiet if the US invades Venezuela, so that's not a great prospect no matter how you look at it.
Venezuela seems condemned more by starvation than by force.
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