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You’re Not Allowed to Say That NATO Caused the War, Unless You Are NATO’s Secretary General

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There are two competing narratives about the origins of the Ukraine War. According to one narrative, Vladimir Putin is a Hitler-like aggressor. He wants to reestablish the Soviet empire by swallowing Ukraine and threatening the Baltic countries, Poland, and the nations further west. This narrative was created by Washington and Brussels. It has been repeated by European leaders and echoed endlessly in the media. If you accept this narrative, you will be lauded as a humanitarian, a virtuous citizen of Europe, the West, and the world. The other narrative asserts that Putin invaded Ukraine because he perceived a threat from the West—in particular, from the progressive militarization of Ukraine. This narrative has been suppressed by Western governments and derided in the media. If you say that “NATO did it,” you will be called a “stooge of the Kremlin” or “Putin’s puppet.” Unless you are the head of NATO. Early last month, speaking to the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs, NATO Secretary General ...

Common Misconceptions Among Border-Control Advocates

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A common misconception among proponents of America’s socialist system of immigration controls is that the libertarian position favoring genuine open borders would mean no borders at all. That’s just wrong. Simply because people are free to cross a border doesn’t mean that the border disappears. The border remains, even though people are free to cross it, back and forth. The border between Maryland and Virginia is the Potomac River, just as the Rio Grande is the border between Texas and Mexico.  Every day, countless people cross the Potomac in both directions — from Maryland into Virginia and from Virginia into Maryland. No one keeps count of the exact number of people who are crossing the border in either direction. Notwithstanding all those people crossing the Potomac in one direction or the other, the Potomac does not disappear. Moreover, it continues to remain the border between Maryland and Virginia even though people are crossing it back and forth.

The Failed Drug War Does Not Equate to “Open Borders”

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NOTICE: Tomorrow, Thursday, October 5, at 7 p.m. Eastern. Benjamin Power is our first presenter in our upcoming online Austrian conference: "How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life." Register here to receive your Zoom link. ***** Yesterday, I pointed out that the thousands of immigrants who are illegally entering the United States along the U.S.-Mexico border does not signify that U.S. officials have suddenly and unexpectedly adopted the libertarian position of open borders. Instead, the flood of illegal immigrants shows that America’s decades-old system of immigration controls, whose aim is to prevent illegal entry into the United States, continues to be one gigantic miserable failure.  The situation is no different with respect to the drug fentanyl. Drug dealers are smuggling large quantities of the drug into the United States from Mexico. This has caused drug-war proponents to say the same thing that statists are saying about that flood of immigrants — that U.S. officials have ...

Blaming “Open Borders” for Immigration-Control Failure

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NOTICE: Mark your calendar! Thursday, October 5, at 7 p.m. Eastern. Benjamin Power is our first presenter in our upcoming online Austrian conference: "How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life." Register here to receive your Zoom link. ***** During my entire life I have watched immigration-control advocates try valiantly to make their immigration-control system work. I’ve always been ...

America’s Forever Wars Are Not the Problem

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Ever since it became clear that the U.S. invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq were turning into disasters, a common refrain has been to end America’s “forever wars.” Politicians of all political stripes, commentators in the mainstream press, and various conservative and libertarian think tanks and educational foundations have embraced the refrain, thinking that if only America can ...

The Dangerous Pursuit of Empire: Russia, China, and the United States

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Giving up the reality, the nostalgia, or the dream of empire is very difficult for those in political power, and even for those citizens who have bought into their government’s indoctrination and propaganda. Historically, empire-builders and political leaders often seem to hold certain attitudes and ideas in common. First, they believe that they and their group or nation are on ...