The Return of Geopolitics and War by Michael von Liechtenstein... Economic measures and sanctions, propaganda, engineered social unrest, fake news and cyberattacks. These are instruments of hybrid warfare...

"More and more actors are using economic measures and sanctions, propaganda, engineered social unrest, fake news and cyberattacks. These are instruments of hybrid warfare. This “hidden” form of war is already taking place, especially between major powers. This strategy allows them to avoid direct military confrontation and the ravages caused by weapons of mass destruction (be they nuclear, chemical or biological)."

PRECISELY!!!

The above quote hence concept is so critical for my countrymen (Americans) to grasp, having bought into the longstanding propagandized notion therefore political justification for bans, sanctions, embargoes, etc. as "allegedly" necessary then effective. As all propaganda go, such indirect tactics are never necessary nor effective towards the political objectives, always with the additional unintended harm to particular domestic industries thus companies' lost of profits, employees' lost of jobs, producers' lost of materials, consumers' lost of goods, and so on. The aforesaid in parallel to antagonistic warlike characteristics as pointed out in the article are recipes for inevitable disaster.

Free trade among private companies and free association among private individuals, although not perfect, are the best known preventions to strife, riot, conflict and war.

The Return of Geopolitics and War by Michael von Liechtenstein...
https://www.gisreportsonline.com/the-return-of-geopolitics-and-war,3565,c.html

Quote by Murray N. Rothbard... Every TYRANNY must necessarily be grounded upon general popular acceptance. In short, the bulk of the people themselves, for whatever reason, acquiesce in their own subjection...

"Every TYRANNY must necessarily be grounded upon general popular acceptance. In short, the bulk of the people themselves, for whatever reason, acquiesce in their own subjection. If this were not the case, no tyranny, indeed no governmental rule, could long endure. Hence, a government does not have to be popularly elected to enjoy general public support; for general public support is in the very nature of all governments that endure, including the most oppressive of tyrannies. The tyrant is but one person, and could scarcely command the obedience of another person, much less of an entire country, if most of the subjects did not grant their obedience by their own consent."

Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995)

Note:
Taken from his 1975 introduction for Harry Kurz's translation of Étienne de La Boétie's essay The Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (Discours de la servitude volontaire).

See link for entire book (English), download free per courtesy of Ludwig von Mises...
https://mises.org/library/politics-obedience-discourse-voluntary-servitude

Quote by Étienne de La Boétie... All this havoc, this misfortune, this ruin, descends upon you not from alien foes, but from the one enemy... King and Government!

"Poor, wretched, and stupid peoples, nations determined on your own misfortune and blind to your own good! You let yourselves be deprived before your own eyes of the best part of your revenues; your fields are plundered, your homes robbed, your family heirlooms taken away. You live in such a way that you cannot claim a single thing as your own; and it would seem that you consider yourselves lucky to be loaned your property, your families, and your very lives."

Étienne de La Boétie (1530-1563), quite insightful as quite young, with such fervor this young man critiqued king and government, thus rightly continued in his 1577 book posthumously published; The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude...

"All this havoc, this misfortune, this ruin, descends upon you not from alien foes, but from the one enemy whom you yourselves render as powerful as he is, for whom you go bravely to war, for whose greatness you do not refuse to offer your own bodies unto death. He who thus domineers over you has only two eyes, only two hands, only one body, no more than is possessed by the least man among the infinite numbers dwelling in your cities; he has indeed nothing more than the power that you confer upon him to destroy you. Where has he acquired enough eyes to spy upon you, if you do not provide them yourselves? How can he have so many arms to beat you with, if he does not borrow them from you? The feet that trample down your cities, where does he get them if they are not your own? How does he have any power over you except through you? How would he dare assail you if he had no cooperation from you? What could he do to you if you yourselves did not connive with the thief who plunders you, if you were not accomplices of the murderer who kills you, if you were not traitors to yourselves? You sow your crops in order that he may ravage them, you install and furnish your homes to give him goods to pillage; you rear your daughters that he may gratify his lust; you bring up your children in order that he may confer upon them the greatest privilege he knows---to be led into his battles, to be delivered to butchery, to be made the servants of his greed and the instruments of his vengeance; you yield your bodies unto hard labor in order that he may indulge in his delights and wallow in his filthy pleasures; you weaken yourselves in order to make him the stronger and the mightier to hold you in check. From all these indignities, such as the very beasts of the field would not endure, you can deliver yourselves if you try, not by taking action, but merely by willing to be free. Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces?"

See link for entire book (English), download free per courtesy of Ludwig von Mises Institute...

https://mises.org/library/politics-obedience-discourse-voluntary-servitude

I love this man... Lysander Spooner (1808-1887)...

"What, then, is legislation? It is an assumption by one man, or body of men, of absolute, irresponsible dominion over all other men whom they can subject to their power. It is the assumption by one man, or body of men, of a right to subject all other men to their will and their service."

Lysander Spooner (1808-1887) continues in his 1882 treatise Natural Law...

"It is the assumption by one man, or body of men, of a right to abolish outright all the natural rights, all the natural liberty of all other men; to make all other men their slaves; to arbitrarily dictate to all other men what they may, and may not, do; what they may, and may not, have; what they may, and may not, be. It is, in short, the assumption of a right to banish the principle of human rights, the principle of justice itself, from off the earth, and set up their own personal will, pleasure, and interest in its place. All this, and nothing less, is involved in the very idea that there can be any such thing as human legislation that is obligatory upon those upon whom it is imposed."

See link for Spooner's treatise in its entirety...

https://cdn.mises.org/Left%20and%20Right_3_1_7.pdf

Quote by Aristotle... hence... the repetitive usages of similar Aristotelian-esque sequences of adverbs; Observably, Logically thus Consistently, Ethically and/or Sustainably

"Of propositions and problems there are—to comprehend the matter in outline—three divisions; for some are ethical propositions, some are on natural science, while some are logical."

Aristotle (384-322 BC), Organon / Topica, Book I, Chapter 14

Interpolated among comments/blogs as well my last two books (and book forthcoming), are repetitive usages of similar Aristotelian-esque sequences of adverbs; Observably (notably, determinably, etc), Logically thus Consistently, Ethically and/or Sustainably. This is the nature of consciousness, reason therefore discovery, evolvement towards all things scientific, economic, social, psychological, personal, moral and more, or to simply put, the proper discovery of all things. 

Contrary to discovery thus evolvement would be latency then devolvement per opposite adverbs as Imaginably or Fantastically, Randomly or Arbitrarily, Preferentially, Covetously, Presumptuously and/or Arrogantly, towards of course all things unscientific, noneconomic, nonsocial, pathological, impersonal, immoral and more.

To reverse engineer (if you will) regarding anything considered ethical or as ethic, consistency would be paramount to observe then determine, else something other than ethical, that is to say, non-ethical perhaps unethical. To reverse engineer further per consistency as paramount, then preceding would be logical determination upon observation by deducing to particulars, inducing to universals, else and once again something other than ethical, that is to say, non-ethical perhaps unethical.

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

www.DCQuillanStone.com (books) / www.CafePerQ.com (blogs)

Books thus far...

Have become knee-deep in studying/drafting for the 12th book project, perhaps to be finished, edited then published latter-2022. And, forthcoming book have been slightly yet appropriately renamed from "Further Proems & Poems..." to "Propositions, Problems & Poems" on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters, to complete the thematic trilogy observably, logically, consistently regarding the sole morality, lone ethic thus singular right.

www.DCQuillanStone.com (books) / www.CafePerQ.com (blogs)

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Democrats and Republicans differ? Superficially perhaps, ethically no!

Extreme as well moderate Republicans are driven solely by objectives instead of principles, in equal measure to extreme as well moderate Democrats, each pursuing political ends with no accounting for their jointly shared coercive means; governmental force.

Whether to take back America, make America great per Trump's campaign, or to battle for the soul of the nation, unite for a better America per Biden's campaign, all mere political jargon for soliciting enough majority votes so to governmentally, forcefully impose upon the remaining electoral minority.

The ethical questions stand and indict every political endeavor; when is force of any kind not arrogant, not presumptuous therefore not covetous towards control of others' resources, behaviors, words even thoughts? Furthermore, when is force of any kind not disrespecting, not disregarding the singular human right to consent or dissent on all matters?

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.