It's a new year; I could have posted over the weekend, but I had stuff to do. Before I post that stuff let us look at Argentina, now headed to libertarian utopia. Presently the leader of the anticom resistance. Also apparently against trade-unions.
Vox Day holds that the world is in an ideological struggle. On one side is Clown World, led by the Blue Tribe along the Potomac. On the other side: the BRICS. That's Brasil, Russia, India, China, and whatever-else. Usually horribly-run places like Iran, South Africa, Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela. Also the ansârallâhi of Yemen sometimes called "Houthi" - in fact, they're enforcing a R/C embargo against the rest of us.
The Baghestan is hardly a Clown blog. Communism aside, which is a disaster almost as bad as Islam, I don't know that I take the Clown side over national-interest. National-interest if nothing else protects the "legacy" generation, for all some dislike it.
On the other hand - economies do better when in good Clown standing. Argentina has, after taking a 54% haircut in national savings (mostly of the upper-middle classes) and promising a clamp on "piquets" (think: pickets, but on your way to work), had a resurgence in income. Against VD, Argentina has abandoned the BRICS. Argentina might be looking for a way out of Mercosur too - much could depend upon Lula, who seems less doctrinaire this time 'round (after the Bolsonaro scare, and an inherited Congress). America might do better decentralising our police, itself - for a start, taking Vivek seriously re the FBI, pace Hanania and Trump.
As to the libertarian/statist argument much, I think, depends on simple geography. The whole west-Eurasia and north-Africa region enjoys productive lands and a central position; one might say similar for India, Indonesia, and North America. A little statism goes a long (often good) way here. If you're scraping the Southern Hemisphere, I think matters be a bit different: howling winds, poor soil, middle of nowhere. (Immigration is also a geographic issue; the Algerian who can afford the Americas is superior to the Algerian who simply slips over to France. If I do say so myself.)
Argentine (and south-Chilean) policy, in that event, should focus more on trade-routes. And I don't mean extortion like the ansârallâhi; I mean proving to the world that you can dock ships at Buenos Aires and not have your goods stolen. Leaving aside Perú, in Argentina the IMF are the good guys. Vox Day, by contrast, is openly saluting the pirates against all that is good.
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