The European Union is the “producer of peace,” or so the dominant narrative goes. But there’s a lot of Europe beyond the EU, and in Unherd Peter Franklin unpacks the multiple border crises erupting around the continent and how they reveal the hollow core of an entity that has no army, no police force – no real way to protect itself at all.
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.
