Substack is great but the search feature is complete dogshit. You can search verbatim the title + author of an article & it won’t be able to find it.

The “NATO is a defensive alliance, so Putin couldn’t have thought it was a threat” argument is so utterly retarded. Strategic nukes are defensive weapons — do we dismiss out of hand the notion that states might feel threatened if other states have them?

Also, for a defensive alliance NATO seems to have bombed a lot of countries that never attacked its members.

The subtitle, “anarcho-capitalism stands”, is a pretty accurate summary of libertarian thought since Rothbard. Sure there were some major changes in understanding (e.g. Kinsella’s ‘Against Intellectual Property’) but the basic edifice adamantly persists. Despite all the valiant attempts over the years, no one has managed to put as much a…