Crowdfunding defense π§΅
Good news of the day: ππ
bulgarianmilitary.com/2022/10/03/cze⦠"Czech citizens raised $1.3M and bought a T-72 tank for Ukraine"
You can contribute here:
zbraneproukrajinu.cz
Not the first time:
thetimes.co.uk/article/lets-aβ¦
Lithuania? "Lithuania fundraises 3.3 million euros within 2 days to buy Bayraktar drones for Ukraine. "
(Lithuaniaβs population is 2.8 million)
news.yahoo.com/ukrainian-volu⦠"Ukrainian volunteers crowdfund 4 attack drones in 3 days"
"Ukrainian soldiers raise money by writing custom notes on artillery shells for $40 before firing them at Russians" businessinsider.com/ukraine-soldieβ¦
Get yours here: π signmyrocket.com
In 1913, the first Swiss airforce, 17 planes, is financed by crowdfunding:
vtg.admin.ch/content/vtg-inβ¦
web.archive.org/web/2015051515β¦
In 1899, the first submarines of the French navy:
journal-le-matin.over-blog.com/article-en-189β¦
See also L. Neil Smith's @lneilsmith (RIP) novel The Probability Broach:
This should annoy all the right people:
bonfire.com/ukrsolidarity/
On libertarian foreign policy, see:
laissez-faire.ch/en/articles/liβ¦
And on "public goods" theory:
laissez-faire.ch/en/articles/puβ¦
"Soldiers! I am your tank. My name is TomΓ‘Ε‘. In order for me to go into battle with you, 11,282 Czechs, Poles and Slovaks crowdfunded me. They know that you are fighting for us, for everyone, and that I will help you."
eshop.pivovarvolt.cz/products/nabojβ¦
"A limited batch of πΊ that celebrates the annexation of #Kralovec to π¨πΏ. All profits from the sale will go to πΊπ¦ through the Gift for Putin project." #KralovecisCzechia @DarPutinovi @pivovarvolt π»π
"Unless libertarian economics is hopelessly wrong β in which case we might as well give up now β people in a free nation would be extremely prosperous. And they would presumably care about national security." Roderick T. Long
c4ss.org/content/21393
Gustave de Molinari, 1849
oll.libertyfund.org/page/gdm-soireβ¦
"Quindi anche la prova storica ci conferma nellβopinione della fallacia della dottrina che considera le soddisfazioni ottenute collettivamente,come necessariamente derivanti dalla natura speciale di bisogni che diconsi collettivi"Giovanni Montemartini 1900
laissez-faire.ch/it/articles/leβ¦
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