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.
The Frigid Isle
Íris Erlingsdóttir shines a light on the world’s first wholly feminized state. Women, she writes in The European Conservative, run everything in Iceland: “the presidency, the prime minister’s office…[the] national state church…schools, municipalities, police…newsrooms and [the] ever-expanding public bureaucracy.” As for the men, Erlingsdóttir observes, they describe themselves ruefully as (bad-taste alert) “pussy-whipped.”
