The alerts issued by Javier Milei's SIDE in 2025 regarding the international disinformation operation resurfaced following the campaign against Argentina in the 2026 World Cup
The Argentina is under a multidimensional siege that transcends the sporting realm, consolidating itself as a coordinated international mega campaign designed to attack the country and discredit its citizens. However, this scenario of global hostility is not a surprise for the Executive Power, as the State Intelligence Secretariat (SIDE) had already discovered and alerted about these operations in 2025.
What was once a strategic warning is now clearly reflected in the systematic discrediting that the Nation suffered during the 2026 World Cup.
Javier Milei and Vladimir Putin
The official investigation by the SIDE early identified an organized structure called “The Company”, which operated in close coordination with geopolitical interests from Russia. This network was linked to the “Lahkta Project”, a disinformation machinery originally driven by the oligarch Yevgeniy Prigozhin.
According to Argentine intelligence, the goal of this organization was to form loyal groups to execute “campaigns directed against the Argentine State” and the Milei Government.
The data collected by the SIDE as early as 2025 revealed the magnitude of the threat:
At least 250 publications were detected, including fake news, analyses, and opinion columns, disseminated between June and October of 2024.
The operation had an estimated budget of 283,000 dollars.
The leaders of this network in the country were identified as Russian citizens Lev Konstantinovich Andriashvili and Irina Iakovenko, who financed local links to inject hatred into public opinion.
This operational base detected by the SIDE is what today manifests in the manipulation of algorithms on social media. A data analysis on the X platform confirmed that the anti-Argentine narrative intensified after the final, using “anonymous but verified accounts” linked to “betting houses from Russia or Eastern Europe”.
These accounts exploited the vulnerability of social systems to viralize messages labeling Argentina as “racist” and claiming that the World Cup was “rigged”.
Agustín Laje on the Anti-Argentina Campaign
As the libertarian intellectual Agustín Laje well analyzed, this international offensive is nothing more than the “woke agenda” validated internally by Kirchnerism.
The SIDE had already warned that this structure used focus groups and civil organizations to measure the impact of its messages, which ended up being amplified by celebrities like Samuel L. Jackson, who claimed that Argentina was “one of the most racist countries, if not the most racist in the world”.
The warning from the SIDE in 2025 indicated that these activities constituted a “direct threat to the security and sovereignty of the country”.
Today, that sovereignty is defended not only in the field of intelligence but also in the public budget. In the face of the coordinated attack by foreign students who, while enjoying free education at UBA, mocked the national defeat and the “Malvinas Cause”, the people have said enough.
The Government of Javier Milei has responded firmly to this international hate campaign, validated internally by “envelope mercenaries” like Diego Brancatelli or Julia Mengolini, who attempt to hide the strings of the globalist plot. In line with the mandate to prioritize resources for those who sustain the system, the libertarian administration has already authorized by decree the charging of fees to non-resident foreigners in health and education.
