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.
Yay Brexit!
Brendan O’Neill in Spiked enthuses that Brexit is superior to just about anything else in the world. “There should be street parties” on the 10th anniversary of the popular vote to withdraw from the EU, he writes. “Let the bells peal for that momentous day when in our millions we said No to globalism.” The continuing surfeit of saboteurs and naysayers among Britain’s “idiot elites”, O’Neill snorts, are gripped by Brexit Derangement Syndrome.
