The free market is there exactly to keep the warlords out, those with a functioning brain will simply ignore their demands, those who don't will happily crave in and become irrelevant, and ultimately die.
It's called natural selection.

Meanwhile, how do authoritarians want to fight off the warlords?
Oh right, they won't, because they love them!
But perhaps that boot you're licking tastes so good that you can't see it.
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