Argentina’s Milei Praises Donald Trump, Signals Support for U.S. Military Action Against Venezuela

Argentine President Javier Milei said he “deeply admires” President Donald Trump and voiced support for U.S. military pressure against Venezuela’s Maduro regime during an interview published Monday by the British newspaper The Telegraph, as reported by Breitbart.

Milei made the remarks as part of the outlet’s annual world leader rankings, in which he was placed third.

He was preceded by Syrian jihadist leader Ahmed al-Sharaa in fourth place, while the newspaper has not yet revealed the top two positions.

Asked about his relationship with President Trump and his view of the second Trump administration, Milei said he “deeply admires Trump” and praised him as a peacemaker who has “managed to end nine wars.”

Milei also reiterated that he nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize during an October visit to the White House.

The prize was ultimately awarded to Venezuelan opposition figure María Corina Machado, who dedicated her award to Trump.

During the interview, Milei indicated support for possible U.S. military action against Venezuela, which he described as an illegitimate narco-regime led by dictator Nicolás Maduro.

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He further argued that the collapse of both the Venezuelan regime and its backers in Cuba would be beneficial.

President Trump has authorized significant military and law enforcement actions targeting drug trafficking networks tied to the Maduro regime.

These include “Operation Southern Spear,” aimed at intercepting drug-carrying vessels believed to be transporting cocaine in the Caribbean.

In December, Trump also announced he would designate the Maduro regime as a terrorist organization and impose a blockade on Venezuela’s sanctioned oil shipments, citing the expropriation of American company assets under Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chávez.

Milei said Trump’s leadership strength comes from his clarity about ideological threats. He described Trump as “someone who is very clear that the enemy is socialism.”

Milei, who became the first explicitly libertarian third-party candidate elected president anywhere in the world, has long criticized socialism and related ideologies, which he groups under what he calls “collectivism.”

Addressing Venezuela directly, Milei framed the issue as geopolitical rather than economic. “The discussion today is not about globalisation, the discussion is geopolitical,” he said.

“There is a bloc that is China and its satellites. There is another one that is Russia and its satellites. And there is another that is the U.S., trying to ensure that their influence area — their bloc of satellites — is all of the American continent.”

“Maduro is someone who has used the state resources to infect all of the continent with communism,” Milei added.

“The world would be a better place without Venezuelan communism, and if, fundamentally, the Cuban version were to end, the world would be a better place also.”

Milei’s comments followed a December 16 statement by Trump on Truth Social declaring the Maduro regime a “FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION” and ordering “A TOTAL AND COMPLETE BLOCKADE OF ALL SANCTIONED OIL TANKERS.”

Trump cited terrorism, drug smuggling, human trafficking, murder, kidnapping, and the theft of American assets.

At press time, U.S. authorities had confirmed the seizure of two Venezuelan oil tankers.

Trump also said during a radio interview on WABC’s Sid and Friends in the Morning that U.S. forces had recently struck a major drug facility, believed to be in Venezuela. The Maduro regime has not publicly addressed the claim.

Support for tougher action against Maduro has grown across the region. In Chile, President-elect José Antonio Kast said following his landslide election victory that he would support a military removal of Maduro.

He said such action would resolve “a giant problem” for Latin America.

Opposition remains strongest among leftist leaders such as Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Colombian President Gustavo Petro, though both have recently distanced themselves from Maduro over election disputes and public confrontations.

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