War is peace
freedom is slavery
ignorance is strength
Below some of the most outrageous statements from allegedly “anti-war” websites, in fact explicitely rooting for a Russian victory in its war of aggression. Could we please stop pretending these people are “anti-war” or “libertarians” in any way?
If there were any justice in the world, Russia never would have entered the [sic] Ukraine. Instead, they would have declared war on all the member nations of NATO, all of them without exception. Thank God that there is no justice in this world. We should thank our lucky stars that Putin is a mensch.
– Walter E. Block, “Nuclear War?”, April 28, 2022
No other nation should supply Ukraine with weapons of any type or variety. This country should cease and desist from its attempt join NATO. That mischievous, nasty and malicious organization should be disbanded and salt sowed where once it stood.
– Walter E. Block, “Nuclear War?”, April 28, 2022
Published both by the “Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity” (more accurately: Ron Paul Infamy for War and Poverty) and by the Lew Rockwell Cesspool whose tagline is “anti-state anti-war pro-market”.
People around the world have every reason to sympathize with the plight of the Ukrainian people, but the least bad outcome of the war would be a Russian victory and a negotiated settlement in the near future.
– Ted Galen Carpenter, “The Closer Ukraine Gets to Victory, the Closer the World Comes to Nuclear War”, June 7, 2022
Ted Carpenter? Ah yes, this Ted Carpenter. Published on Antiwar.com (sic) and Cato, where he is a Senior Fellow (sic). Cato itself claiming that “Our mission is to originate, disseminate, and advance solutions based on the principles of individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace.” Right.
Putin’s campaign against this Nazi revival and his defense of the independent Russian areas in the beleaguered Donbas region deserve our admiration, not our condemnation.
– Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., “Exposing Some Myths About the Ukraine War”, April 18, 2022
Lew Rockwell himself, chairman of the Mises Institute. Note that the same “anti-war” Lew Rockwell who wholeheartedly approves Russia invading Ukraine because of the minuscule neo-nazi presence there (far-right parties made 2.15% in the last elections, antisemitism is the lowest in Europe, etc, etc, see our series), thinks, conversely, that stopping Hitler was wrong, and promotes neo-nazi websites on his own Lew Rockwell Cesspool.
For an in-depth analysis of the errors on “foreign policy” of so-called “anti-war libertarians”, see our series: “Libertarianism is against aggression”.