Back in 2002 the then-Secretary of the United States Treasury Paul O’Neill said: "We're working to find a way to create a sustainable Argentina, not just one that continues to consume the money of the plumbers and carpenters in the United States” – how little seems to have changed since then, both in the crisis finding President Javier Milei in the White House last Tuesday and the nature of US President Donald Trump’s ambivalent response. If another O’Neill (Speaker Tip) famously said: “All politics is local,” this cannot be ignored by Trump who sees himself as a man of two worlds – his self-image as the global genius freeing the Gaza Strip hostages and bailing out Argentina needs to be ba
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