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1 week ago | 
creators.com | Austin Bay
The Israel-Iran War Over Nuclear Weapons could end with a nuclear blast. Why have a reluctant Washington send two American B-2 stealth bombers each dropping a 30,000-pound (15-ton) Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) conventional bomb destroy Iran's buried Fordow uranium enrichment facility? Israel has nuclear weapons, everyone knows that. One well-placed Israeli nuke — say, 5 kilotons?
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2 weeks ago | 
creators.com | Austin Bay
"This anarchy will not stand," President Donald Trump told his Fort Bragg, North Carolina, audience of Green Berets, Rangers and 82nd Airborne Division paratroopers — the disciplined cadre of America's XVIII Airborne Corps sitting in the grandstands. The anarchy Trump condemned is/was in Los Angeles, on the west side of America's fruited plains. In LA, calculating rioters plundered stores, burned cars and attacked police, and demanded similar anarchy throughout America.
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3 weeks ago | 
instapundit.com | Austin Bay
New Model Trojan Horse – Ukraine’s Drones:Bravo to Ukraine for its “New Model Trojan Horse.”Homer’s Greek warriors slipped from a wooden horse to open Troy’s gates and start the bloodbath that ended a 10-year war. Ukraine cleverly and stealthily shipped wooden crates deep inside Russian territory, 1,500 kilometers into Siberia.
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3 weeks ago | 
creators.com | Austin Bay
Bravo to Ukraine for its "New Model Trojan Horse."Homer's Greek warriors slipped from a wooden horse to open Troy's gates and start the bloodbath that ended a 10-year war. Ukraine cleverly and stealthily shipped wooden crates deep inside Russian territory, 1,500 kilometers into Siberia.
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1 month ago | 
instapundit.com | Austin Bay
WHAT DOES PUTIN VALUE?: Dealing Don and Bad Vlad Head for a ShowdownUnderstanding value in a straight-up deal creates cooperation or a walk-off no deal. War is not a straight-up deal. Check it out. RELATED: Commerce over chaos! As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
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1 month ago | 
creators.com | Austin Bay
What does Russian dictator Vladimir Putin value? My question's immediate frame of reference: Donald Trump says Ukraine war-waging, ceasefire-dawdling Putin is insane. Moreover, if Putin evades sincere peace negotiations, the Kremlin leader confronts "really bad things" and, ultimately, is "playing with fire.""Really bad things" is a Trumpism for ... Well, it means devastating economic and political sanctions against any thug adversary.
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1 month ago | 
creators.com | Austin Bay
On May 14, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick received a letter written by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and James Risch (R-Idaho) — and co-signed by 11 other senators and four members of the House. The letter is a big political punch with strategic information purpose. Cotton chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee and Risch the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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1 month ago | 
creators.com | Austin Bay
Commerce Over Chaos!That's Donald Trump's MidEast strategy expressed as a peace and prosperity sound bite. Will the sound bite bumperstick in reality? Historical hint it might: ARAMCO: Arabian-American Oil Company (now Saudi ARAMCO, but, as Shakespeare asked, what's in a name?). ARAMCO's a wealth and energy-producing historical stick that's stuck for eight decades — since the 1940s for sure.
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1 month ago | 
eks.creators.com | Austin Bay
In a column written this past February, I listed four unsettled wars "frozen" under a nuclear shadow: 1) India vs. China in the Himalayas. 2) North Korea threatening South Korea and Japan — speculating South Korea and Japan could have their own nuclear weapons in 72 hours. 4) Israel vs. Iran. Israel's nukes will work. Tehran currently calls Israel a "one bomb state" but has no functional weapon. Yes, I left out No. 3. Here it is: India vs. Pakistan.
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1 month ago | 
creators.com | Austin Bay
On April 28, a critical "instability" disrupted electrical power grids in Spain, Portugal and parts of France. Extensive blackouts lasted for hours. Initial reports speculated over-reliance on intermittent wind and solar electrical technologies share part of the blame. Whatever the cause, the widespread power loss in three first-world nations is another lesson in the vulnerability of modern energy and communication systems.
