Prime Minister Scott Morrison is set to splash AU$10 billion (US$7.3 billion) on a new nuclear submarine base on the east coast of Australia, as he warns the world to be ready for a “new arc of autocracy.” In a speech to the Lowy Institute on March 7, the prime minister said the invasion of Ukraine was the “latest example of an authoritarian regime seeking to challenge the status quo through threats and violence.” “This is what autocrats do. It is not the product of a sudden madness or a failure of earlier diplomacy to resolve just grievances,” he told the forum. “These are the bloody and violent acts of an autocrat determined to impose his will on others, in the contrived self-justification of realising nationalistic destiny. We have seen this before.” “This is not a world we want—for us, our neighbours, or our region. It’s certainly not a world …