"The main elements in New Right thinking include strict barriers to illegal immigration, reduced legal immigration and hostility to the EU...
They include a firm belief in the family as the bedrock of morality, communities and the nation; an effort to raise birth rates, now running well below replacement level in Europe; and a view of “wokeism”, cancel culture and retrospective blame for imperialism as dangers to democratic values.
Many parties strongly support Christianity, though they fear it will disappear within a few decades. Meloni stresses her Catholicism and attachment to the late doctrinally conservative pope Benedict XVI."
-John Lloyd, Financial Times
Better a poor and wise youth Than an old and foolish king who will be admonished no more. Ecclesiastes 4:13
Question:
Or what king, going to make war against another king, does not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? Luke14:31
Answer:
A king who watches too much FOX TV, reads too many Marvel comics, pays attention to the New York Times, and watches too many Hollywood political thrillers.
The narrow strait is the most important chokepoint for the world's oil supply. Some 21 million barrels — or $1.2 billion worth of oil — pass through the strait every day.
Will a closed Strait hurt Iran? In terms of international oil sales, yes, but in terms of daily life, no. Iran pumps 3.5 million barrels of crude oil per day. The situation at this hour: