The problem is that the some FReeRepublic people are swallowing Putin’s propaganda wrapped in libertarian paper on Russia Today. This is the main source of the nonsense including with the “predictions” of the clowns parading as forecasters, economists or other “experts”. One should throw the RT where its place is in the garbage.
Irresponsible and almost foolish statements by Ron Paul did not help either.
But libertarianism, with small exceptions, historically went along with Moscow Bolshevism. At first when anti-communist tried to destroy the Iron Curtain, for instance CATO expert were convincing that USA can have good relations with Soviet Union because… the trade, of course. The other example would be their attitude towards the expansion of NATO, which they tried to block as hard as they could with their idiotic rhetoric. Recent case, the missile defense which some of the libertarians critized stronger than Putin himself. And of course the defense of the tyrants such as Milosevic… The list of their terrible mistakes is very long… Putin propaganda uses them like map to change libertarians into wind mills spinning whenever he would blow.
I think some of libertarians seems to be worse idiots because they think they are wise while some Communists at least knew that they are fools…
I agree with much of what you wrote. I also note that the Putinistas must have considerable cognitive dissonance. First of all, they claim to be against Obama. Yet no one empowers Putin and America’s enemies more than Obama. Hence, obviously if you’re in favor of the restoration of the Tsarist/Soviet/Putin empire, then Obama’s your man in the right place at the right time. Second, most of these people do attempt to display a tone of unabashedly superior cognitive capabilities. Yet none of them seem to notice that there is: a) very little liberty in Russia, b) that Putin is a statist, c) that Putin’s bullying will lead to more and bigger statism throughout the world, not less, and finally that their “see no evil” approach to Putin is risible now that they’re the only ones in denial still about what Putin is up to. He should be for them like the authors of the book THE GOD THAT FAILED. In it, former communist denounced communism. Putinistas should consider Putin an idea or ideal that failed. But they don’t yet.