At the Libertarian Alliance, David Davis reflects on the need to defend the new libertarian Britain:
…if a libertarian nation was to come into being, I imagine it would face immediate threats from most quarters. Its very existence would expose, mortally, the now-dangerous hideousness of ordinary modern states…
Agreed.
…the fledgeling libertarian state would need some kind of credible way of defending itself, at least in the initial stages of its existence when old-type “Big-States” still think it can be overpowered on some pretext, before their own slaves notice it and all try to do a runner.
Agreed.
I think that defensive power greater than any combination of two or three Big-States that decide to gang up for a mugging, would be needed.
Hmm. I refer the honourable member to the reply I gave earlier.
Once upon a time the Royal Navy prided itself on outnumbering and/or outgunning any two other navies in combination; I an sure that such a policy is no longer economically feasible, nor has been for a long time.
Bearing in mind that the states considering themselves to be threatened by British Libertarianism might include the USA, it would seem that rather than indulging in the delighfully Edwardian but shockingly expensive practice of laying down five dreadnoughts for anyone else’s three we should instead consider what we are trying to defend, and how.
How will we defend the UK against invasion by the EU army, or against blockade by the US Navy? The former may possible, by the use of the Swiss model, but it is difficult to see how we could easily afford the latter. Lots of very good submarines might do it.
The longer this is left the more difficult it will be so it would probably be wise to throw out the Labour party and to elect a Libertarian government as soon as possible; to save time later.
