Last month, Javier Milei, Argentina’s flashy libertarian leader, arrived in New York City not with his trademark chainsaw, but with his hat in his hand. He left with a stunning pledge from the U.S. government to loan $20 billion to stop a run on the peso that threatens to wreck Milei’s pro-market revolution.  For the United States, there is no economic logic to the rescue, to be ironed out at Milei’s Oval Office meeting on Oct. 14. Indeed, President Donald Trump and his Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, hardly hid the ideological motivations behind the risky bailout of Trump’s “favorite president.” ThatThe post When Ideology Writes the Check: Washington’s Risky Bet on Argentina appeared first on War on the Rocks.