The terrifying thing is the less likely someone is to point Ukraine on the map the more likely it is that they want their country to go to war. They have no idea of any of the history. They look at it from a cartoonish worldview. —Lauren Southern, “Your Welcome” with Michael Malice #198
If our freedom is so fragile that it must be continuously protected by giving it up, then we are in deep trouble. —Karl Hess
The United States’ Foreign Policy is the Midas Touch but in reverse. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Ukraine, the list goes on… —John Mearsheimer, University of Chicago
As far as I’m concerned the Republicans and the Democrats on Foreign Policy are like Twiddledum and Twiddledee. There’s just no difference between them. —John Mearsheimer, University of Chicago
Thus, Lincoln “saved” the federal union in the same sense that a man who has been abusing his wife “saves” his marital union by violently forcing his wife back into the home and threatening to shoot her if she leaves again. The union may well be saved, but it is not the same kind of union that existed on their wedding day. That union no longer exists. The American union of the founding fathers ceased to exist in April of 1865. —Thomas DiLorenzo, Lincoln Unmasked
What protectionism teaches us is to do to ourselves in times of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war. —Henry George
Every bomb that fell in the Middle East was a 9/11 to someone. —Antony Sammeroff
Should we leave Afghanistan? I think the answer is very clear. And it’s not complicated. Of course we should, as soon as we can. If we don’t, we’ll be there for another decade. —Ron Paul
It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society. —Murray Rothbard
The libertarian insists that whether or not such practices are supported by the majority of the population… War is Mass Murder, Conscription is Slavery, and Taxation is Robbery —Murray Rothbard