Rothbard Was Right: Wars Don’t Enhance Freedom. They Destroy Liberty.

There are only two wars which can be justified in European American history.

The American revolution against Britain because Americans had a right to try to govern themselves, and the Confederates defence against the illegal terrorist invasion of the USA.

As for the American Revolution and Americans governing themselves, look around.
America is a 3ed world shit hole run by Globalist Communist.

The American revolution lasted eleven years, and look around!
Seventy four years later, the closet homosexual manic depressive Marxist shyster rail road lawyer war criminal yankee puritan Lincoln

killed the American Revolutionaries Volunteer Union replacing it with a Mandatory Marxist Military Dictatorship thinly disguised as a constitutional republic.

But lets us go back farther.
The American revolution lasted eleven years, 1776-1787.

In 1789 the constitution replaced the Articles of Confederation.
So Americans fought an eleven year war to have three years of freedom before the constitution stole from the thirteen countries called states their sovereignty and made slaves of Americans to the central government.

The government and you can not both own your ass at the same time.
Any government which can “draft” you into military service, kidnap you, throw you in a dungeon if you do not turn over a good bit of the fruits of your labor to them, owns your ass!

I hate to sound callused but as an American in a shit hole crafted by USA/DC, I don’t think the people who took a good country and made a shit hole out of it are qualified to tell the rest of the world how to fix things.

Physician heal thyself!
Lets fix the shit hole Americas was made by the political whores in Washington DC before worrying about the rest of the world.
And not through war.

Common Law Tribunals, ok, I’m with you.

The Ole Dog!

Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Western leaders have declared that Ukraine was defending not only its own freedom, but ours too. President Joe Biden, to whom apparently “freedom is priceless,” vowed to support Ukraine for “as long as it takes.”

In turn, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that the American support for Ukraine is not charity but an “investment in global security”. Other commentators also argue that a Ukrainian victory would strengthen global freedom by deterring other aggressions from autocratic powers like China. Yet, these positions are at odds with the clear antiwar stance of Murray N. Rothbard, one of the most prominent American libertarians of the twentieth century.

Rothbard made a clear distinction between the interests of governments as opposed to those of private individuals, which are subject to the government’s monopoly of violence in a specific territory. He believed that all interstate wars lead to an increase in the government aggression of both domestic and foreign individuals. The aggression against innocent people is inevitable because each state derives its capacity to wage war from taxpayers; in the case of a military conflict, it will intensify its local aggression either through taxation or conscription or both. At the same time, because the citizens of the enemy country are the resources allowing their state to fight, they and their property will be targeted through military action.

According to Rothbard, war never enhances freedom, only domestic tyranny, “a tyranny that usually lingers long after the war is over.” Therefore, any libertarian should pressure governments to avoid going to war against other countries and negotiate peace as soon as war breaks out.1 However, let’s see if the conflict in Ukraine is likely to advance freedom or not.

Human and Economic Cost of the War

The human cost of the war in Ukraine, borne primarily by the two belligerents, appears huge already. The number of military casualties is not certain, as both sides are downplaying their own losses and exaggerating the ones of the enemy. Yet, third party estimates claim that Russia has suffered around one hundred thousand to 130 thousand casualties (wounded and killed) to Ukraine’s one hundred thousand, making the conflict one of the bloodiest in modern history. This is not counting about thirty thousand Ukrainian civilian casualties and the many civilians dragged by force into the army. Russia drafted three hundred thousand reservists and conscripts in late 2022, whereas Ukraine declared martial law in February 2022 and may have already drafted around a million people. In addition, about a third of the Ukrainian prewar population—thirteen million people—have left their homes due to the war, of which around 8.1 million fled abroad, showing the full size of aggression against innocent civilians.

The direct economic cost of the war is also massive for Ukraine, Russia, and the West. Ukraine’s economy lost more than 30 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP), or $60 billion, just in 2022. Ukraine could not have supported the war effort without substantial military, financial, and humanitarian aid from the West, estimated at about $133 billion for the first year of war only (graph 1). Estimates for the cost of reconstructing Ukraine after the war vary widely between $411 billion and $1 trillion. The West is expected to pay the lion’s share of the reconstruction bill, with some possible support from about $300 billion in foreign exchange reserves seized from Russia. Although Russia suffered only a 2–3 percent decline in real GDP in 2022, despite heavy Western economic sanctions, its economic prospects are also bleak given the withdrawal of foreign companies, curtailed access to Western technology, and lasting increases in defense budgets.

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