There are no fascists waiting to march on the streets.

Plenty of f***ing weirdo, ideologues in European capital cities, Washington, Brussels, and beyond, though.
"What the virus has revealed is some fault lines internationally, but also within society."

"He believes the only way to avoid a rerun of the 1930s is for improved global co-operation on key issues."

Sure. build over the "fault lines". That will help.
If there are nationalist tensions, they are tensions *caused* by ambitious politicians putting their big, global projects first. They can't help themselves, because they prefer to be on the 'global stage', rather than doing what they were appointed to do.
Those projects have included the EU and warmongering -- both on the promise of making the world a "better", "safer" and "more prosperous" place.

They were wrong.
I don't need to tell you what global project the UK govt. is currently preoccupied with, at our expense.

Pointing it out is not nationalism.

Pointing it out is to demonstrate that Net Zero and UN climate agreements serve nobody's interests, anywhere, at all.
Yet, he says:

"My view is that global solidarity is what you need to deal with so many of the challenges and threats we face today, whether it is violent extremism, climate change or problems like Covid [...] These are problems that have to be solved globally."
"Global solidarity" does not exist.

What he wants is political power taken away from democratic domestic policymaking institutions.

i.e. aligning elite interests, and securing them from oversight.

That's a sure *recipe* for conflict.
Why?

Because it licences degenerate, self-serving, intransigent governments, who are preoccupied with the 'ethics' that service their interests, not the fact of the political needs of their own populations.
Climate change is to Johnson as 'humanitarian intervention' was to Blair. They externalise - internationalise - their domestic crises. They cast themselves as planet-saving super heroes because they're useless and have no domestic agenda worth speaking of.
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