Recent landings of US military and official aircraft in San Juan and Ushuaia present alarming similarities: a lack of transparency, omission by local authorities, and a marked interest in displacing Chinese influence at strategic points in the country. The first parallel between both cases is the absolute secrecy. On September 30, 2025, a 'Yankee' aircraft landed unexpectedly in the Pampa del Leoncito, Calingasta. It took off from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on the same day that the national executive decreed the intervention of the port. The landing in Ushuaia, home to the Chinese-Argentinian radio telescope CART, was also sudden and made with no official announcements, just three days after the national government took control of the local port. The main suspicion is that the intervention aims to pave the way for direct concessions to the United States, linked to the construction of an integrated naval base and the control of the Antarctic Logistics Pole. The foreign policy of Javier Milei's government has consolidated an axis of total alignment with the United States, which translates into concrete facts on the national territory. In response to these events, Governor of Tierra del Fuego Gustavo Melella and the CGT Regional repudiated what they consider an 'affront to sovereignty' and a 'strategic subordination' that accelerates the delivery of key resources.
