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Crowdfunding defense 🧵

Good news of the day: 👏👏 bulgarianmilitary.com/2022/10/03/cze… "Czech citizens raised $1.3M and bought a T-72 tank for Ukraine"
Ano, 🇨🇿 je první zemí na světě, kde se lidé složili na tank aby ho poslali proti Putinovi. Tomáš do války pojede! 33 milionů korun dalo dohromady 11 288 lidí se srdcem. Děkujeme. ❤️ A co bude dál? Munice! Munice do tanků, raketometů, houfnic a děl. Munice! zbraneproukrajinu.cz/kampane/1000-d…
You can contribute here: zbraneproukrajinu.cz
Lithuania? "Lithuania fundraises 3.3 million euros within 2 days to buy Bayraktar drones for Ukraine. " (Lithuania’s population is 2.8 million) twitter.com/KyivIndependen…
The Kyiv Independent

The Kyiv Independent
@KyivIndependent

⚡️ Lithuania fundraises 3.3 million euros within 2 days to buy Bayraktar drones for Ukraine. The fundraising campaign attracted money at a rate of about 1,500 euros per minute, according to Lithuanian TV presenter Andrius Tapina.
news.yahoo.com/ukrainian-volu… "Ukrainian volunteers crowdfund 4 attack drones in 3 days"
BAYKAR

BAYKAR
@BaykarTech

Baykar'dan duyuru! * Announcement from Baykar! * Оголошення від Baykar!
"Ukrainian soldiers raise money by writing custom notes on artillery shells for $40 before firing them at Russians" businessinsider.com/ukraine-soldie…
Get yours here: 🚀 signmyrocket.com
Garrett Wood

Garrett Wood
@GarrettRWood

If you're interested in how private actors in Ukraine overcame the free rider problem to successfully provide national defense then check out my article "Crowdfunding Defense" over at Public Choice. link.springer.com/article/10.100…
In 1913, the first Swiss airforce, 17 planes, is financed by crowdfunding: vtg.admin.ch/content/vtg-in… web.archive.org/web/2015051515…
In 1899, the first submarines of the French navy: journal-le-matin.over-blog.com/article-en-189…
See also L. Neil Smith's @L Neil Smith (RIP) novel The Probability Broach:
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This should annoy all the right people: bonfire.com/ukrsolidarity/ twitter.com/antifaintl/sta…
Kamil Galeev

Kamil Galeev
@kamilkazani

How to support the Ukrainian military? In this thread I'll post some links for donating to the Ukrainian military collected and verified by @Sergej Sumlenny Here you can donate to the specific military units or to volunteers helping them by PayPal or by a wire transfer 🧵
On libertarian foreign policy, see: laissez-faire.ch/en/articles/li…
And on "public goods" theory: laissez-faire.ch/en/articles/pu…
"Soldiers! I am your tank. My name is Tomáš. In order for me to go into battle with you, 11,282 Czechs, Poles and Slovaks crowdfunded me. They know that you are fighting for us, for everyone, and that I will help you." twitter.com/DarPutinovi/st…
Do tanku T-72 Avenger jsme dali dopis pro jeho budoucí posádku: " Vojáci! Jsem Váš tank. Jmenuji se Tomáš. Abych s Vámi mohl vyrazit do boje, složilo se na mne 11 282 Čechů, Poláků a Slováků. Oni vědí, že bojujete za nás, za všechny, a že já Vám pomůžu. Oni vědí, že...⬇️
Frederik Cyrus Roeder

Frederik Cyrus Roeder
@FredCyrusRoeder

#Sukhois2Plowshares raises donations for a Ukrainian unit that shot down a Russian Sukhoi-34. These guys turned the jet into luggage tags that we will mail to people who donate $399 and more. More here: recyclerussia.com
eshop.pivovarvolt.cz/products/naboj… "A limited batch of 🍺 that celebrates the annexation of #Kralovec to 🇨🇿. All profits from the sale will go to 🇺🇦 through the Gift for Putin project." #KralovecisCzechia @Dárek pro Putina @pivovarvolt 🍻👏
"Unless libertarian economics is hopelessly wrong — in which case we might as well give up now — people in a free nation would be extremely prosperous. And they would presumably care about national security." Roderick T. Long c4ss.org/content/21393
Kamil Galeev

Kamil Galeev
@kamilkazani

A new round of donations for the Ukrainian soldiers & civilians 🧵 1. While suffering from the Iranian drone attacks, Ukraine was able to increase efficiency of its air defence with the new software. Now they're fundraising for tablets to coordinate the batteries' fire
Gustave de Molinari, 1849 oll.libertyfund.org/page/gdm-soire…
"Quindi anche la prova storica ci conferma nell’opinione della fallacia della dottrina che considera le soddisfazioni ottenute collettivamente,come necessariamente derivanti dalla natura speciale di bisogni che diconsi collettivi"Giovanni Montemartini 1900 laissez-faire.ch/it/articles/le…
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