The supposed "national unity" called for by President Javier Milei during his national address on the Malvinas/Malvinas issue began to crumble within the ruling party itself, less than 24 hours later. This afternoon, in a radio interview with Eduardo Feinmann on Radio Mitre , Senator Patricia Bullrich , a key figure in the libertarian movement and member of the La Libertad Avanza party , publicly defended Margaret Thatcher , drawing a contrived distinction between her market reforms and her role as a military leader in the South Atlantic in 1982.

The legislator's statements clash head-on with the confrontational rhetoric put forth hours earlier by the head of state, who had described Great Britain as a power beset by "structural crises that are unlikely to be resolved," and announced decrees to expel from the country corporations linked to colonial usurpation.

Economic praise and resistance to defining it as an "enemy"

When asked about the opposition's criticism that pointed out a contradiction between the president's sovereign appeal and his well-known doctrinal devotion to the former conservative prime minister, Bullrich offered a staunch defense of Thatcher:

"Looking at Thatcher is looking at the economic change that Thatcher brought about in England, which all English people recognize (...) a society full of unemployment, with problems, with a ruined industry. She led to turning Great Britain into a modern nation and the financial capital of the world; she improved the lives of all English people . "

When addressing the chapter of the 1982 conflict, the senator deliberately avoided using any term of formal condemnation towards whoever ordered the war crime of the ARA General Belgrano cruiser outside the military exclusion zone:

"Thatcher the economist is one thing, Thatcher taking advantage of that moment and leading the war is another. I'm not going to use the word enemy because... but it was part of Thatcher's political strategy to respond to Galtieri's invasion of the Malvinas . "

Bullrich 's stance went so far as to attribute a favorable institutional effect for the country to the military outcome brought about by the British armed forces: "Indirectly it did what we needed, democracy came," she asserted, describing the collapse of the de facto regime after the military defeat.

The two lines of libertarian discourse

The senator's impassioned pro-British speech dismantles the staged performance orchestrated the night before at the Casa Rosada:

The shift in rhetoric exposes the fragility of the government's position. While Milei now attempts to channel the Malvinas/Malvinas claim as a tool for geopolitical cohesion—relying on alignment with Donald Trump —his key political figures remain tied to the doctrine that has the British Conservative leader as its ideological guiding light.

A call for unity wounded from the start

At the end of the interview, Bullrich tried to soften the blow by demanding that the opposition political spectrum join the government's demand without question: "They're using it because they have no other way to respond to something they should be joining. Join in if this is everyone's issue."

However, the appeal to a common cause is undermined by the ruling party's own parliamentary spokesperson. It is difficult to construct a state policy to defend strategic resources in the Argentine Sea against the advance of Sea Lion when, in tandem with announcements of sanctions and military bases, the most prominent figures in the ruling coalition continue to invoke the historical figure of the 1982 colonial dispossession on the airwaves.