Source: Libertarian Institute
by Joseph Solis-Mullen
“In the words of Justin Raimondo, from his 2011 article, ‘How decision-makers react to events beyond our borders is decisively shaped by domestic political considerations.’ This theory of foreign relations, libertarian realism, eschews the typical narrative of mysterious collectivist forces that drive events. It thus places blame firmly where it belongs when things, as they so often do, blow up in everyone’s faces: politicians catering to domestic political constituencies, the focus being on their own careers and not a fictitious ‘national interest.’ Using the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis (1995-96) as an example, one can see how just such another crisis could easily erupt.” (08/29/24)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-third-taiwan-straits-crisis-and-its-enduring-lesson