Space War and Other Distractions By Gwynne Dyer When Troy Meink, the chief of the US Space Force, announces for no obvious reason that the United States “now has on-orbit space-control weapons”, people naturally assume that something is up. Why is Meink admitting the truth now? He’s even boasting about it! It can’t be to […]
Not AI Doom By Gwynne Dyer Somebody was bound to sound the alarm eventually. In this case it was a young British artificial intelligence researcher called Jacob Coxon, who quit his job at the AI company Anthropic to warn the world that “if we don’t slow down the current rate of progress, there is a
Nancy Roman Telescope By Gwynne Dyer Last Sunday (30 August) a Falcon Heavy rocket delivered the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope onto a direct transit trajectory to its permanent home at the Lagrange Two Point (L2) 1.5 million km. from Earth. In 100 days it will reach its station, power up, and start observing the
Trump and the Threshold of Pain By Gwynne Dyer It would be so easy for Donald Trump to escape from the trap he has built for himself in the Persian Gulf. Just declare a victory and leave. So what if the Iranians also declare a victory (with a lot more accuracy)? The ‘nuclear weapons’ that
Netanyahu’s Remaining Options By Gwynne Dyer “The graveyards are full of indispensable men,” said former French Premier Georges Clemenceau about a century ago, and it’s still true. Israel’s precisely timed surprise attack on Iran on 28 February killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and seven of his closest allies in thirty seconds, but they turned out
10 June 2026 Middle Eastern Wars: Wait for September By Gwynne Dyer Last Tuesday US President Donald Trump told journalists that the United States and Iran are “in the final throes of what will be a very, very good deal.” On Wednesday, after an American helicopter gunship crashed in the Strait of Hormuz, presumably downed
“The war is over,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Congress last Tuesday, but it isn’t. In the Persian Gulf there is a sort-of ceasefire between the United States and Iran that is reluctantly observed by Israel too, but there are air strikes between American and Iranian forces around the Gulf on most days.
Tulsi Gabbard, the recently resigned/retired/fired US Director of National Intelligence, told Congress just two months ago that US intelligence agencies had concluded Iran was not building nuclear weapons. Indeed, she added, experts also determined Iran had not resumed its suspended 2003 nuclear weapons programme. However, Donald Trump said she was “wrong” His claim that “Iran
Eat your hearts out, Pablo Escobar, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán and Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes. The richest cartel by far is still the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), and its leaders also get to die in bed. But one of its oldest members, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has just quit. No notice,
TACO! Of course. Trump always chickens out, but it’s a feature, not a bug. If his threats aren’t working, he will generally drop them and try something else. The man has always been a real estate developer: he was born into it, and he knows no other way of interacting with the world. It’s all