A big, beautiful deal, Americas aerospace revolution and other commentary

Iran-Israel war: A ‘Big, Beautiful Deal’“Proponents of an American strike believe that we have no realistic choice other than to help Israel do as thorough a job as possible in setting back Iran’s nuclear ambitions,” contends The New York Times’ Bret Stephens.True, after Trump drops bunker busters on the Fordow nuclear site, the question is “what comes afterward.” But the president can follow that up with “a diplomatic bunker buster on Tehran”: lifting economic sanctions and forcing the Israelis to stop the bombings.

“Nobody, perhaps even President Trump himself, knows for sure whether the United States will wind up joining Israel in launching military strikes on Iran.” But “there’s a big, beautiful deal to be struck here.For all sides.”Tech watch: America’s Aerospace ‘Revolution’“From LAX to coastal San Diego,” dozens of new firms are “embracing the country’s emerging ‘hard tech’ revolution,” cheers Joel Kotkin at UnHerd.

Including around 40 spinoffs of SpaceX, they make everything — largely for aerospace — “from drones to engines, drilling systems to satellites.” Together, they can “restore” America’s “blue-collar prosperity.” Given the “military implications” of these products, these firms embrace a “Right-wing patriotism” and so threaten to change corporate culture.Yet “the biggest pool of money” is not from the Defense Department but the “burgeoning space industry.” And the “technology looks set to dominate our century.

For if those robots and satellites are all impressive enough in theory, they could yet be used as a geopolitical battering ram” — with US innovators as “riposte to Chinese central planning.”Libertarian: Czechs to the Rescue in Ukraine“Through online fundraisers organized by community platforms like ‘Gift for Putin,’ ‘Team for Ukraine,’ or ‘Just Retribution,’ Czech citizens have donated millions of dollars toward” arms for Ukraine, mar...