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.
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.
