The "zero deficit" policy of Javier Milei's government has crossed a red line that jeopardizes not only the operational capacity of the Armed Forces, but also the very survival of its members . A new budget cut of more than 46 billion pesos has severely impacted military readiness, leaving units throughout the country in an unprecedented state of precariousness: there are no longer funds to pay for electricity, gas, water, and, most critically, food for the troops.

1. The breakdown of the emptying

The adjustment applied this week to the 2026 Budget has been surgical in its potential for damage. All three branches of the armed forces have seen their basic operating programs disintegrate in the official budgets.

2. From "Sovereignty" to hunger: A testimony of collapse

Beyond the numbers, the human impact is devastating. Internal Army sources report that these funds were intended to cover basic services for the units. "We're running out of electricity, gas, and what's worse, the delivery of food rations is at risk," they say from within the ranks.

This creates an incomprehensible situation: while the Government signs the "Shield of the Americas" pact with the U.S. Southern Command to combat foreign threats, it takes away the food from the soldier who is supposed to guard our borders.

3. The strategic abandonment of the South Atlantic

The budget cuts to the Navy are particularly sensitive for the Malvinas cause. By eliminating funding for light naval helicopters and operational maintenance, the government is effectively withdrawing Argentina's presence from our waters.

While Britain strengthens its military presence in the archipelago and foreign fleets plunder our fishing resources, the Milei administration's response is to disarm the very force that should be exercising sovereignty . Without patrol ships and without helicopters to carry out rescues or surveillance, the Argentine Sea becomes a lawless zone.

4. A systematic plan of defenselessness

This cut to defense spending is not happening in a vacuum . It comes on top of cuts to science (CONICET and CONAE), school infrastructure, and health (cancer treatment). The model is clear: the dismantling of the national state in all its strategic functions.

This "adjustment on top of adjustments" is yet another step in the long process of de-Malvinization. A country that cannot pay the electricity bill for its barracks, that cannot feed its soldiers, and that hands over its intelligence to foreign powers, has relinquished its existence as a sovereign nation.

A starving soldier and a barracks unable to pay for gas are the very image of defeat without a single shot having been fired. Javier Milei's government is achieving what no foreign power has been able to: completely dismantling Argentina's military through economic strangulation .

There is no "Shield of the Americas" worth anything when the national shield itself has been sold off piece by piece to balance the accounts of an administration that has decided to ignore the British invasion of our land in order to kneel before the fiscal orders of Washington.

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