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.
A Spite That Knows No Bounds
Gratingly awful global scold Greta Thunberg’s latest stunt is to turn on her own motherland. Sweden has been very good to her, but the former social-democratic paradise’s mugging by the realities of uncontrolled immigration do not sit well with the keffiyeh-clad rabblerouser. “For years, Sweden took more asylum seekers per capita than any other country in Europe,” writes Fredrik Karrholm in The Spectator. “Now asylum numbers have fallen to their lowest level since 1985.”
