Javier Milei
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“proud to be the most Zionist president in the world.”
Javier Milei · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-17
Milei pledged to move Argentina's embassy to Jerusalem and refused to recognise a Palestinian state at the UN.
“Argentina is growing at a remarkable pace. We have now recorded 27 consecutive months of sustained growth, and today the country is expanding at four times its historical rate. This growth is being felt across almost every sector of the economy,”
Javier Milei · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-16
Milei claimed sustained economic growth during a recent visit to Washington, defending his austerity plan.
“This amounts to a curious mixture of anarchy and tyranny, impotence in the face of those who break the most basic rules, such as bloodthirsty dictatorships and terrorist organizations coupled with Orwellian control and impositions on liberal democracies that abide by the rules.”
Javier Milei · said 2026-09-23 · reported 2026-09-23
Milei described the UN as a mixture of anarchy and tyranny, impotent against dictatorships but controlling liberal democracies.
“peaceful, practical, and effective defence”
Javier Milei · said 2026-09-23 · reported 2026-09-23
Milei described Argentina's approach to defending its sovereignty claim over the Falkland Islands.
“during the pandemic, bodies under the auspices of this house put themselves before scientific evidence and the sovereignty of nations and promoted forced lockdown policies throughout the world.”
Javier Milei · said 2026-09-23 · reported 2026-09-23
Milei criticized UN bodies for promoting forced lockdown policies during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I would remind them of what Mises said, ‘Good people do not think about controlling the lives of their fellow human beings.’”
Javier Milei · said 2026-09-23 · reported 2026-09-23
Milei referenced economist Ludwig von Mises, quoting him as saying good people do not seek to control the lives of others.
“built a bureaucratic leviathan devoted to deciding how the peoples of the world and their citizens should live.”
Javier Milei · said 2026-09-23 · reported 2026-09-23
Milei said the UN has built a bureaucratic leviathan devoted to deciding how peoples should live.
“deep affinity of values”
Javier Milei · said 2026-09-23 · reported 2026-09-23
Milei emphasized Argentina's close alignment with the US and Israel in his UN General Assembly speech.
“Because an institution that cannot ensure that its words carry weight in the real world loses the most important thing of all, its authority.”
Javier Milei · said 2026-09-23 · reported 2026-09-23
Milei said an institution that cannot make its words carry weight in the real world loses its authority.
“today, regrettably, it is time to acknowledge that in practice that sacred covenant has been broken.”
Javier Milei · said 2026-09-23 · reported 2026-09-23
Milei told the UN General Assembly that its founding covenant of peacefully resolving conflict has been broken in practice.
“Those who follow the rules receive no reward for doing so, while those who break them face no repercussions whatsoever,”
Javier Milei · said 2026-09-23 · reported 2026-09-23
Milei criticized the UN for failing to enforce international rules, saying rule-breakers face no consequences.
“Any such activity not authorised by the Argentine Republic … constitutes an unlawful act,”
Javier Milei · said 2026-09-23 · reported 2026-09-23
Milei stated that unauthorized oil extraction activities near the Falkland Islands are unlawful under Argentine law.
“looking the other way”
Javier Milei · said 2026-09-23 · reported 2026-09-23
Milei accused the UN of ignoring Argentina's long-standing dispute with the UK over the Falkland Islands in a speech at the UN General Assembly.
“That’s to say, it has become a useless organization whose only purpose is to sustain a caste of fatally arrogant parasites masquerading as well-intentioned bureaucrats,”
Javier Milei · said 2026-09-23 · reported 2026-09-23
Milei charged that the UN exists only to sustain a caste of bureaucrats and is a useless organization.
“gender agenda, environmental extremism and unchecked immigration.”
Javier Milei · said 2026-09-23 · reported 2026-09-23
Milei pointed to the gender agenda, environmental extremism, and unchecked immigration as evidence of the UN's failures.
“There's no shortage of words or resolutions; what is lacking is consequences,”
Javier Milei · said 2026-09-23 · reported 2026-09-23
Milei asserted that while the UN has no shortage of words and resolutions, it lacks consequences.
“implanted by the occupying power”
Javier Milei · said 2026-09-23 · reported 2026-09-23
Milei rejected the argument that Falkland Islanders should decide their own future, saying self-determination did not apply.
“Those who were supposed to guarantee collective security and human rights failed in their task. They allowed chaos, violence and international terrorism to flourish,”
Javier Milei · said 2026-09-23 · reported 2026-09-23
Milei said those meant to guarantee collective security failed and allowed chaos, violence, and terrorism to flourish.
“arrogant parasites masquerading as well-intentioned bureaucrats”
Javier Milei · said 2026-09-23 · reported 2026-09-23
Milei attacked the UN in his General Assembly speech, calling it a useless organisation filled with arrogant parasites.
“are a test of the gulf that exists between the words of international institutions and the reality upon which they purport to act.”
Javier Milei · said 2026-09-23 · reported 2026-09-23
Milei said the disputed islands reveal the gap between the UN's words and the reality of its actions.
“And if that were not enough, an organization established to defend the territorial sovereignty of its members decided to look the other way with regard to the situation of the Malvinas [Falkland] Islands, South Georgia Islands, South Sandwich Islands and the surrounding maritime areas.”
Javier Milei · said 2026-09-23 · reported 2026-09-23
Milei criticized the UN for ignoring Argentina's territorial claims over the Falkland and surrounding islands.
“Where some allege a public health policy error, we see a global experiment in social control disguised as science, and when a state wearing public health blinkers deprives its population of the right to work, to receive an education and to bid farewell to their dead, this results in millions of avoidable deaths; there is a word for it, genocide.”
Javier Milei · said 2026-09-23 · reported 2026-09-23
Milei characterized pandemic lockdown policies as a global experiment in social control that resulted in genocide.
“The alleged defenders of human rights have sheltered bloodthirsty dictatorships and regimes that stone women in the streets; they have systematically voted against Israel while remaining silent in the face of Islamic terrorism and the genocide of Christians in Africa.”
Javier Milei · said 2026-09-23 · reported 2026-09-23
Milei accused the UN's human rights defenders of sheltering dictatorships and voting against Israel while ignoring Islamic terrorism.
“every time [the U.N.] failed, rather than reviewing the model or apologizing, they doubled down.”
Javier Milei · said 2026-09-23 · reported 2026-09-23
Milei charged that the UN doubled down rather than reviewing its model or apologizing after each failure.
“It is clear that they are on a path of decline,”
Javier Milei · said 2026-09-03 · reported 2026-09-04
Milei said this in a televised address announcing his intention to reopen Argentina's claim to the Falkland Islands.