Reply To: Russian Tensions

Perhaps more ‘anti-war’ is the American right-wing libertarians that have increased their influence within the Republican Party, advocating a non-intervention isolationist foreign policy.

Wars launched by the government seem a complete waste of taxpayer money to the individual capitalist. Unless, of course, they themselves benefit from the government contracts.

Their reasoning is that free-market capitalism naturally leads to a world of personal freedom and economic prosperity, but this is thwarted by the power of the State. The power of the State grows at times of war therefore, war must be opposed as a way to drive back the power of the State.