I have an irrational fear of free market bread and I don’t understand economics so I want a state to feed me.
Josh, I would think there would be embargo.
It would be harder for france to gain control. First off, there would be no monopoly on military or police forces.
OP, your concerns don’t fit well with history. When the US colonies declared independance, The enemy was Britian.
When the US had the civil war, a war where any country could have inteviened and conquered. Intervention in the war was unpopular with other countries. Because their citizens were anti-slavery.
There may be counter-examples to this. But these are examples that stick out to me.
Sorry for the misspellings, Mises hates Opera.
Josh wrote the following post at Sat, May 1 2010 4:19 PM:
In the absence of statist trade barriers, businesses would trade goods to Germany. This is the best war deterrent
If there is no dispute there would be more wealth per capita in libertarian society…
I think there will be a lot of affluent people with land interests who will be happy to voluntarily fund some concept of geographical defense.
But the state would not have legitimacy in the eyes of the free society, which in itself makes invasion and subjugation a headache for the expanding state.
In that vein, Carl Watner suggests an alternative, and IMO more libertarian, form of societal defense here.
scineram: What is your point, exactly? A defense agency in a free society, as well as the employees of that agency, need not be motivated purely by pecuniary profit. Really, is any action ever motivated solely by the desire for a monetary profit?