Argentine President Javier Milei delivered a powerhouse speech at the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos, calling for a return to the West’s foundational pillars—Greek philosophy, Roman law, and Judeo-Christian values—to rescue civilization from collapse. He lambasted socialism as a ruinous ideology, pointing to Venezuela’s 80% GDP plunge into a narco-dictatorship as proof of its inevitable failures.
Milei touted Argentina’s turnaround under his liberty-driven reforms: slashing a 15% GDP fiscal deficit to zero, plummeting inflation from 300% to 30%, halving poverty from 57% to 27%, and igniting growth through 13,500 state overhauls spearheaded by Federico Sturzenegger. These victories stem from policies rooted in ethics, not just economics. He debunked the myth of efficiency versus fairness: “The opposition between the dimensions of efficiency and fairness is false and erroneous. That is, what is fair cannot be inefficient, nor can what is efficient be unfair. From the perspective of dynamic analysis, fairness and efficiency are two sides of the same coin.”
Proclaiming “Machiavelli is dead,” Milei insisted that ditching moral values breeds injustice and societal downfall. He championed free enterprise capitalism as ethically superior, decrying socialist traps like wokism for eroding morals. Echoing his 2024 and 2025 Davos blasts against socialism and woke “cancer,” Milei celebrated 2026’s global tide toward freedom, especially America’s resurgence.
Milei ended on a triumphant note: “America will be the beacon of light that will reignite the entire Western world… We have a better future ahead of us, but that better future will only exist if we return to the roots of the West, that is, by returning to the ideas of freedom.”