As government control expands, the space for individual freedom contracts. This is not a historical accident, but the result of decades of planning and social engineering, where the autonomy of the average citizen is sacrificed on the altar of an omnipresent state.
If the US annexes Greenland, NATO will have failed in one of its core purposes: to maintain the territorial status quo while outsourcing Europe's defense spending to the US taxpayer.
Infrastructure can be built under freedom because freedom disciplines action. Under coercion, it becomes theater.
The operation is launched and the “objectives” are quickly reached. Or so they claim. But then it all falls apart. We become poorer as the special interests get richer.
Long before Soviet propaganda cynically rebranded the Nazis as “bourgeois,” and long before modern academics lazily stamped them “far-right,” Mises dismantled National Socialism with clinical precision.
Trump justifies his war on Venezuela by saying that “they” stole “our” oil. Unpacking this claim gives us insight into Trump’s version of crony capitalism.
The annexation of Texas was a preview of future foreign policy.
Margaret Thatcher’s famous quote spells doom for new socialist schemes, “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples’ money.”
President Trump recently signed an executive order changing marijuana’s Controlled Substances Act classification from Schedule I to Schedule III.
Among the many rationalizations that the Trump administration is using to initiate massive force and violence against the Venezuelan people is that the Venezuelan government nationalized American oil interests many years ago.
