The recent AUKUS defence agreement provides Australia with nuclear-powered submarines and creates a crucial counterweight to China’s growing naval power in the Pacific. Canada’s exclusion from the pact is further evidence of Ottawa’s lack of interest in defending liberal values around the world, argues Paul T. Mitchell, professor of defence studies at the Canadian Forces College, in The Conversation.
Javier Milei Makes Fools of the “Experts”
As it began looking like Javier Milei might actually be elected President of Argentina, more than 100 leading international economists warned that this “far-right” political “wrecking ball” would “cause ‘devastation,’ spike inflation, expand poverty, and unemployment.” But as David Harsanyi relates in the Washington Examiner, Milei has tamed inflation, balanced the budget, shrunk the bureaucracy, deregulated the economy, driven down poverty and repaid billions in U.S. loans. And now, Harsanyi notes, Argentina is starting to boom.
