Election-eve polls suggest Javier Milei, a charismatic and wild-haired political outsider who found fame pontificating on television chatshows about monetary policy and sex, could sneak a first-round win, although a November runoff is likely. At his final campaign event in Buenos Aires on Wednesday, the 53-year-old “anarcho-capitalist” addressed a packed 15,000-capacity stadium from a stage adorned with a banner proclaiming him “The Only Solution” to Argentina’s economic malaise. I'm an armchair international affairs expert and all, but is it possible that this IS WW III? If so, maybe it's just a different sort of war: a few hotspot shooting wars, like Ukraine, the Middle East and West Africa; but generalized democracy vs. authoritarianism political struggle and information warfare, nearly everywhere. It’s all the same struggle — democracy versus authoritarianism.

Source: The Guardian October 22, 2023 15:36 UTC