China, notes Daniel Green in The Mercury, “fields the largest navy in the world and the largest missile force on the planet.” It’s also “the world’s fastest growing nuclear power.” What to do? Certainly not the rhetorically impressive but empty “integrated deterrence” of the Joe Biden Administration. Securing peace, urges Green, requires preparing across the board for conflict: increasing the size of the armed forces, building far more missiles and ships, and reindustrializing North America.
It Was Nice While it Lasted
Victor Davis Hanson in Jewish World Review condenses his scenario for Western civilization’s imminent demise into 700 words. The West’s fatal arrogance, Hanson argues, has prevented it from repulsing the four horsemen of its own apocalypse: global warming hysterics, sexually liberalized (and largely childless) lifestyles, unrestricted illegal immigration and a descent into tribalism driven by divisive ideologies like DEI. Despite all that, Hanson also offers the outlines of a solution.
