Libertarian foreign policy

“ One reason US libertarianism is a uniquely US phenomenon is hardline isolationism.

If you ask a US libertarian about Syria or Ukraine they couldn’t tell you about which party in the war is most inclined to defend liberties, they just say all sides are bad & bitch about taxes

There is no internationalism in libertarian circles, most US libertarians couldn’t care at all about civil liberties overseas because those aren’t our people

Did you know there are Libertarian Parties in Cuba & Russia? Probably not, because Libertarians here don’t care either

Some Ukrainian’s best bet against living under a dictatorship is purchased with US tax dollars? Absolute travesty! Don’t you know there is corruption in Ukraine, therefore I shouldn’t care if their nation is wiped off the face of the Earth, what about inflation?

For all the time Libertarians spent courting conservatives the most they achieved was getting the GOP to share their lack of concern about civil liberties for anyone except Americans

After a while the message becomes clear - US Libertarians do believe in liberty, but only for Americans, and sometimes not even that far, other people don’t matter

And then they wonder why no liberation struggle wants to embrace libertarian ideology!

If libertarianism is selfishness as principle, then why would anyone want to help someone who promises to not reciprocate?

A real revolutionary libertarianism would absolutely be internationalist & seek to aid & assist those who would improve civil liberties abroad

There were a number of us US libertarians who went independently to Rojava to learn from and support the revolution there since there were small gov’t principles at play there, but there was nothing organized, we were always outnumbered by Marxist & ancom foreign volunteers

How much more could we learn from other anti-statists outside the US if our movement was more willing to do so?

American libertarianism is blind to the hard-won experience of freedom fighters with libertarian principles in Chiapas, Kurdistan, Burma, and elsewhere

There is no guarantee that America will always be a bastion of liberty forever, and we should support refuges of liberty wherever they arise rather than assume a position of eternal “libertarianism in one country”, to borrow a line from the Stalinists

— Joshua Bailey, August 30, 2022

• Bryan Caplan, “EconLog Book Club: For a New Liberty, Chapter 14”, “When it comes to his Cold War revisionism, though, Rothbard let his hatred of the U.S. government blind him to the relative benevolence of U.S. foreign policy and the absolute malevolence of the Soviet Union.”

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• Libertarian foreign policy/Libertarians and the War: Ron Paul doesn’t speak for all of us

• https://twitter.com/DeTahmineh/status/1573775251380609027

• Why I’m ashamed to be a libertarian (on Russian invasion of Ukraine/US Aid to Ukraine from a libertarian perspective)

• Neolibertarianism/Isolationism is Not an Option

• Jan Krepelka, “Real libertarians stand with Taiwan, not Mao Tse Tung’s Communists”, 2022

• Jan Krepelka, “Against Urki Libertarianism”, 2022

• Jan Krepelka, “Libertarianism is against aggression (5 part series)”, 2022

• Jan Krepelka, “Agency denial is not libertarian”, 2022

• Libertarian foreign policy/Libertarians and the War: Ron Paul doesn’t speak for all of us