If resources don’t have a legitimate owner, they’re effectively unowned. This is the case of all dictatorships. Any free country can take those resources and integrate them into their system, provided they recognize and enforce property rights. Otherwise it’s anarchism, a dysfunctional hybrid of old dictatorship and American pragmatic profit, not a secure system of property rights.
(Assigning ownership to nation as such wouldn’t fix the problem. A nation without property rights cannot own anything.)
If “making free” means building outside a system of freedom, that’s too expensive. The U.S. tried to build a “democracy” in Iraq but failed.
If “making free” means just leaving people alone do what whatever they want, it’s not necessary. (They’d end up with another warlord anyways.) If the citizens of a free country want resources, why not provide them with a legitimate way to get it? The U.S. could, instead of making hypocrite puppet regimes, fully integrate (with military if needed) the resources they need into her system.
If resources don’t have a legitimate owner, they’re effectively unowned. This is the case of all dictatorships. Any free country can take those resources and integrate them into their system, provided they recognize and enforce property rights. Otherwise it’s anarchism, a dysfunctional hybrid of old dictatorship and American pragmatic profit, not a secure system of property rights.
(Assigning ownership to nation as such wouldn’t fix the problem. A nation without property rights cannot own anything.)
Why should a second country take the resources, instead of making Venezuela free and they keep their own?
If “making free” means building outside a system of freedom, that’s too expensive. The U.S. tried to build a “democracy” in Iraq but failed.
If “making free” means just leaving people alone do what whatever they want, it’s not necessary. (They’d end up with another warlord anyways.) If the citizens of a free country want resources, why not provide them with a legitimate way to get it? The U.S. could, instead of making hypocrite puppet regimes, fully integrate (with military if needed) the resources they need into her system.
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Terra nullius for the 21st century.