I have seen a lot of surprise/confusion as to why so many libertarians became reactionaries, but I think there is a consistent deep structure here 1/
For example: the US originally promoted a lot of international projects (like NATO or Radio Free Europe) to advance US interests. Today you'll mostly just see idealistic reasons and not strategic ones in popular articles that support these institutions.
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You'll see criticisms of international institutions from nationalists (like Putin & Xi) that they give the US too much power relative to other countries, but you'll rarely see Americans say "internationalism benefits America's world position and that's why we should pursue it."
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Hence you might assume that the nationalists are the only ones who think about realpolitik, when that's not the case.
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