Javier Milei wins Argentina election

That is just rehashing what he said the other day as a scare story. It's more measured than what his opponent said.

I rather suspect the ppl of the FI don’t care overly much. The military ability of Argentina is currently slightly less than the Jamaican bobsleigh team.
Given that this bloke appears to be saying he intends slashing govt spending, then I don’t think he is rebuilding the Navy & Airforce anytime soon.

Yes. The election of an unhinged far-right President in Argentina, the sort of bloke who likes to wave chainsaws around in public, and who is a kind of Trump-level idiot who is likely to stop at nothing in order to maintain his own political position, including whipping up nationalism and using the "issue" of the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands as a domestic political weapon.

Here he is rallying the troops by, err, praising Margaret Thatcher

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/13/javi...

from the article :

"Mr Milei, 53, said in the debate: "We had a war – that we lost – and now we have to make every effort to recover the islands through diplomatic channels."

I don't see what's controversial about that?

(also, he's not far right)

How much bitcoin would the Falkland Islands be worth ?

Could be the "make every effort to recover the islands" part. "Recover" being a pretty interesting word to use, when they were never Argentinian in the first place. Perhaps we could take the word of the Falklands Islands government on this point:

https://falklands.gov.fk/our-history

Amazing to see keen British patriots prevaricating over the sovereignty of these islands.

(also, he's far-right)

That's because you're an idiot though.

Oh, like woke?

He's far right. No need to deny it because you might agree with him and don't like the connotations.

Given he's accompanied by few deputies and even fewer senators he's not going to be doing much of anything other than holding press conferences about how he can't get anything done.

Those things are true, but they're not why he's being called far-right, are they? No one's calling Milei 'far right' because "he is an academic economist with a bit of an eccentric approach to public image, talking about how he's going to solve Argentina's economic problems and playing down the disagreement over the Falklands." (btw I do agree that his statements about the Falklands are pretty moderate and essentially just state both the current political position and the settled national stance of Argentina. Other Argentinian leaders have been far more strident. It's awful clickbait headline-writing by parts of the British media). Plus, practically, Argentina doesn't have the capability to get troops across the Puerto Madero docklands, let alone to the Falklands.

But I suspect the label of 'far-right' gets slapped on because of his position on the left/right economic axis (a self-described anarcho-capitalist, the hardest of hard right economic positions), his social conservatism, his bombastic (to put it mildly) rhetoric about leftists and so on.

I suspect that if, say, Paul Cockshott (Marxist economist) somehow became PM of the UK you wouldn't accept "he's just an academic economist, talking about how he's going to solve the UK's economic problems" as a defence of him not being "far-left".

Put it another way - if it was correct to label Corbyn and McDonnell as "far left", can we accept that it's equally correct to label Milei as "far right"?

I don't think either label is accurate to those cases, but in both I can see why others would apply them, and why those people are more than just theorists talking about radical solutions to problems.