Here’s an instructive article by Murray Rothbard (here’s a PDF, since LRC never seems to fix their broken links):
Rothabrd is discussing the origin story of Somaliland.
Lesson (retroactively vindicated by events): Foreign aid dependency and “humanitarian” intervention can be crippling, and make everything worse. See: southern Somalia. Aza is not succeeding either…
Somaliland had none of the “charity”, so they grew up organically, despite the war.
Funnily enough, in theory, libertarians ought to be very happy about a new secession, a new state. The more states the merrier; the weaker each one becomes over earth’s limited resources, the more localism and subsidiarity, the more liberty and self-determination. And that logic is applied to Aza’s “fight for liberty”.
In practice, however, the cheering for Somaliland is quite muted (probably due to the Israeli connection and worries about new neocon schemes, shades of the hatred for J. Milei*).
Libertarians are forever kvetching about American weapons going to destroy Aza, but not about the USG aid going to Aza. And I don’t see even the tiniest mention of their own theory. Somaliland was actually on the receiving end of the US-backed Barre regime…
* Note: I think Milei is a phony in practice, but those who disagree should have been giddy by their lights about a supposed Rothbardian winning elections, putting Austrian theory into practice, etc. etc.