The Dragons of Expectation by Robert Conquest
In his book Robert Conquest’s writes that the most monstrous modern outgrowth of utopianism is not, the UN but the EU. Ruinously expensive, riddled with corruption, and bureaucratic on a Byzantine scale, it aims, as he sees it, to build a “regulationist superstate” in pursuit of the kind of high, transcendental dreams that have always seduced ideologues. Britain should, he counsels, withdraw from it and join, in due time, a much looser association of English-speaking nations which he calls the Anglosphere. This would have a consultative council, with the USA appointing 49% of the members, and the rest divided between Britain, Canada, Australia, the Caribbean, and others. The association would be headed by the President of the United States, and the Queen would be incorporated with “some such title as ‘Queen in the Association’”. Its Foreign Policy and Military committees would have competence over the entire world, and would raise its own forces in order, for example, to prevent coups by pro-totalitarian elements.
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