## Board of Piece ## These two notes remind me of how that when we were kids playing Monopoly™ my siblings and I would sometimes do what we called "blockbuster deals" where several parties exchanged with each other at the same time to get the properties they wanted and it massively changed the game. Perhaps this can happen with Trump's "Board of Peace" on a global scale. The Russia-Ukraine war can end and Russia gets a piece of Ukraine. Israel and the US get Gaza. The U.S. gets Greenland. Perhaps China's Xi can jump in and negotiate to get Taiwan without a fight. Other countries could jump in to get what they want. It would certainly be preferable to WW3. I'm not saying it's right, but in our still primitive age of States people still think they have to get a piece of the board, regardless of what the people living there want... View quoted note → View quoted note → #GovtIsTheProblem

> "When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content." Niccolò Machiavelli, *The Prince*, tr. W. K. Marriott, ch. 19 #quote

#TodayILearned that in 2002 George Mason University economist Vernon Smith became the first private-property anarchist to win the Nobel Prize. #TIL #anarchy

> "Under private-property #anarchy, individual rights and market forces would reign supreme; there would just be no state. Security would be provided privately as it is at colleges, shopping malls, hotels, and casinos..." *Anarchy and the Law*, "Introduction, Edward P. Stringham

> "Private-property #anarchism—also known as anarchist #libertarianism, individualist anarchism, or anarcho-capitalism—is a political philosophy and set of economic arguments that says that just as markets provide bread, so too should markets provide law." *Anarchy and the Law*, "Introduction, Edward P. Stringham

> "In short, the present-day boundaries of nations are purely historical and arbitrary, and there is no more need for a monopoly government over the citizens of one country than there is for one between the citizens of two different nations." Murray N. Rothbard

LewRockwell

Defense Services on the Free Market - LewRockwell

[Editor’s note: 2026 marks the 100th anniversary of Murray Rothbard’s birth, and throughout the year we will feature many of his most important...

The arc of your life, if you do it right. According to Scott Adams:

> "In 1989, George H.W. Bush’s military invaded Panama, for the purpose of overthrowing one time U.S. asset Manuel Noriega, wanted for racketeering and drug trafficking. Any Venezuelans reading this may notice a familiar theme. The Pentagon estimated that 516 Panamanians, including over 200 civilians, were killed during the ludicrously named Operation Just Cause. "

The Gangsters of Manifest Destiny

American Exceptionalism Gone Wild

The US #GovtIsTheProblem

And if you can receive it, the CIA probably tampers with U.S. elections as well, "for the good of democracy": View quoted note → #GovtIsTheProblem

> "Trump faked his own so-called shooting, got the perfect photo-op, helping him secure a fraudulent ‘election...’"

It Is Time to Clean House

“The Trump regime’s inhumane cruelty is a typical symptom of fascism.

Consider for a moment if this is true. Wouldn't that be interesting?

Could the Greenland thing really be about turning Europe against the United States as part of the setup for World War 3 that the "elites" are planning?

CNBC

Why Trump wants Greenland — why the White House thinks it's so important for national security

Greenland, a vast and sparsely populated self-governing Danish territory, has been thrust into the geopolitical spotlight once again.

A good listen, or read: https://mises.org/mises-wire/three-key-lessons-uss-venezuela-intervention

Fountain

Mises Media • Three Key Lessons from the US's Venezuela Intervention • Listen on Fountain

The US's bombing of Caracas reiterates three key foundations of American foreign policy: the Constitution is dead, democracy is irrelevant, and the...

#dogstr