Mises Wire

It's easy to see why many young people don't find military service especially enticing. The US military lost in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the usual regime propaganda may not be working anymore. But we'll only know the full extent of the "problem" once unemployment starts to go up. 

Our country is beset by a large number of economic myths that lead us to accept unsound and dangerous government policies.

But what are we to make of the legacy of Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, and the Russian Empire in general? Certainly, we should not take our cues from the likes of either Volodymyr Zelensky or Vladimir Putin.