Tim Starr is an autodidact writer and independent thinker exploring the deep interplay between **economic liberty** and **military defense**. Through his Substack, *Free Markets and Firepower*, he examines how free markets generate prosperity while credible firepower secures the conditions for liberty to thrive—rejecting both naive pacifism and unchecked statism. His essays blend rigorous historical analysis, counterfactual reasoning, and libertarian principles, tackling topics like the true drivers of the Industrial Revolution, WWII logistics and American power, the role of public goods in a free society, critiques of influential libertarian theorists, and the necessity of strategic strength in an imperfect world. On X (@timstarr2001), Tim delivers sharp, no-holds-barred commentary on foreign policy, individual rights, historical myths, and current events—always grounded in incentives, evidence, and a clear-eyed defense of freedom against ideological capture or folly. A long-time observer of ideas and power, he values systems that align incentives with reality: markets for creation, resolve for protection. Follow him for thoughtful takes that treat liberty as a practical achievement, not a slogan.

Once again you are caught lying. What actually happened with Ori Solomon: Ori Solomon a 55-year-old man was the property manager for a house in east Las Vegas (Sugar Springs Drive). In late January 2026, Las Vegas police and the FBI raided the property after a tip about lab equipment, refrigerators with unknown liquids/vials, and hazardous materials in the garage. 8newsnow.com • The home was also used as an unlicensed short-term rental (Airbnb-style). • Materials were consistent with remnants/storage from a separate illegal bio lab in Reedley, California (shut down in 2023), operated by Chinese national Jia Bei Zhu (aka David He/Wang), who remains in federal custody. ktnv.com • Solomon managed multiple properties (around 37 Airbnbs) linked to Zhu’s operations. Court documents describe him as handling business dealings and property for Zhu, with frequent jail calls from Zhu. wokv.com Charges against Solomon: • Nevada state: Felony improper disposal/discharge of hazardous waste (specifically hydrochloric acid). Key clarifications: • He was not charged with operating or running a biological laboratory. Authorities described the Las Vegas site as a bio-storage facility for remnants from the California case. 8newsnow.com • The FBI explicitly stated they had “no knowledge that he had any expertise in that area or he’s somewhat of a trained biologist.” ktnv.com • In May 2026, federal prosecutors dismissed the gun charge (citing “interests of justice”).The state hazardous waste charge remains pending as of June 2026. Solomon was released on bond with conditions (passport surrender, stay in the US, no guns). reviewjournal.com This is a case of a private individual (property manager) entangled in shady business tied to Chinese nationals running unauthorized lab/storage operations—not an Israeli government operation. No link to the Israeli government or state actors • No credible reporting from police, FBI, or major news outlets connects Solomon to the Israeli government, Mossad, or any official Israeli entity. • He is a private citizen who has lived in the Las Vegas area for decades, manages rentals. • Conspiracy claims online (e.g., “he fled to Israel,” “pathogens like Ebola/HIV were found and covered up,” or “Jewish/Israeli connections hid the story”) have been directly debunked by court records and reporting. No specific deadly pathogens were publicly confirmed in the Las Vegas materials, and testing was ongoing. This is a classic example of guilt by association: One Israeli citizen allegedly breaks US laws in a case linked to Chinese operators → therefore “Israel” (the country/state) is involved in biolabs. That leap is baseless.

🔴 The Fishback Files are in, & let's just say he's received $429,227 from some very, very interesting sources: An absurdly wealthy Pakistani national, FL CAIR Chair Hassan Shibly, & many others. The only Republican who took more pro-Islam money than him is Thomas Massie, but Fishback is close to snatching that crown!

It's extraordinary watching people who've been duped by Russian intelligence before boast about being duped a second, third and fourth time.

Jill Stein is a troubled woman now openly supporting Iran, the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism. Her full-throated cheer for eliminationists is inexcusable and both morally and cognitively disorganized. Even the Kameradschaftspolizei were trapped in ghettos or imprisoned in death camps. She chooses this, while enjoying the great rights and freedoms afforded to her in America. She chooses to cheer genocidal regimes that openly vie for the destruction of her own people, she chooses to echo their accusations in the mirror, and she chooses to be their Pied Piper for impressionable American youth. America and the international community need balancing figures across the spectrum to stimulate debate and discussion and to galvanize political progress and action on stewardship, humanitarian issues, poverty, and education. Stein is no such figure. She’s a profoundly tainted ideologue obstructing the emergence of tempered, legitimate leadership from within this camp. She should expect no institutionally guardrailed refrains in response. Dr. Stein, You are a feeble minded, morally lost individual who has no business in public life. Resign.

James Fishback Says the GOP Should Not Take Millions From AIPAC, as he Pockets Almost $500k From Radical Islamists. At the Tehran Twink's ghost town of a rally, he lambasted Randy Fine for canceling his appearance over Fishback's invitation (now rescinded). It's rich he mocks AIPAC money, while accepting hundreds of thousands from a group of extremists that support the death & destruction of America & freedom. Not very America First! "Congressman Randy Fine has pulled out of the Republican Party of Florida's Sunshine Showdown because I am going to be a keynote speaker there. That's a shame, because Randy Fine would have enjoyed my speech where I'm gonna have a very honest conversation about the future of the Republican Party and the involvement of the US government in giving Israel endless amounts of taxpayer money." Funny, he never once complained about our current Congress STILL cutting the Taliban $40 million checks every week. Where's the outrage? "Randy Fine should be in that room to hear from me. To hear that the Republican Party shouldn't be accepting millions from AIPAC to then sign off and give billions to a foreign country." He says this while accepting hundreds of thousands from an actual Pakistani National (Daniel Hassan). "That foreign country happens to be Israel. But it could be Ukraine, it could be Colombia, it could be Brazil, heck, it could be Sweden or Australia. It doesn't matter. Our money shouldn't ever be given to a foreign country." In other words, ban all foreign money unless it's from radical Islamist extremists pumping nearly half a million into your pockets.

Show me the data where Tulsi Gabbard proves there were secret biolabs or a secret U.S. bioweapons program in Ukraine. You can’t, because there isn’t any. She points to biosafety labs and pathogen work, then leaps to bioweapons without evidence. The official 2022 DoD fact sheets describe biosafety, surveillance, and public-health work, and they explicitly deny biological weapons activity in Ukraine. If you can’t provide evidence, you’re not exposing anything, you’re parroting Russian propaganda used to justify the invasion of Ukraine. war.gov/News/Releases/Releas…

THREAD | Russian propaganda is circulating a map claiming a new US intelligence document "confirms" American bioweapons labs in Ukraine. The document is real. What it actually says is close to the opposite of the claim. Let me walk through it.

Vance: The HEU is buried. Me: It's not buried. Khamenei: God damn it, I'll bury it.

Vance is not clueless. Here he is speaking at Trita Parsi's Quincy Institute, arguing in favor of everything that serves the regime. He has also been close to Tucker Carlson, refused to distance himself from him, and until recently Carlson's son worked for Vance in the White House. youtu.be/VVzoZwoU_RY?is=YZh9…

JD Vance & the Iran-engagement ecosystem. The strongest finding is not secret control, but strategic alignment: Quincy platformed Vance, NIAC amplified his Iran remarks & the wider diplomacy network benefited as Vance brought restraint politics into the center of Trump’s policy.

A lot of hot air from Mr. Parsi to gloss over the simple fact that in 1997 he founded Iranians for Int’l Cooperation as an “Iranian lobby” and wrote “our main objective is to safeguard Iran’s and Iranian’s interests” on IIC’s FAQ. In 2012 a US District Court judge found that Mr. Parsi and his National Iranian American Council’s activity was not inconsistent first and foremost with that of a lobbyist for the Iranian regime and found over $180 thousand for the defendant -- an Iranian diaspora journalist who had described him as just that, a lobbyist for Tehran, and which Parsi catastrophically unsuccessfully sued for defamation in response. Parsi is part of a broader network. His brother Rouzbeh has raised similar concerns in in the EU. But if you read his Substack, it’s interesting because Parsi himself sounds a little bit uncertain about his fate in America where he holds a green card. That makes sense. His circuit may soon outlive its usefulness.

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Russian Propaganda YouTube Channel Meets American Audience! The Duran channel celebrates the release of the Tulsi Gabbard biolab document dump. Where they are based? Stanislav Krapivnik is based in Russia (Moscow area). He was born in Luhansk (Donbass, Soviet era), moved to the US as a child, served in the US Army, worked in supply chain/exec roles, and later returned to Russia. Multiple sources (including podcast descriptions and his professional profiles) confirm he now lives and works there. Alexander Mercouris (main host/analyst is British, based in the United Kingdom (London area). He has a background as a barrister with ties to the Royal Courts of Justice in London, UK company records, and self-description as a UK writer. He has Greek family roots (e.g., aunt Melina Mercouri). Alex Christoforou (co-host) is based in Cyprus (Nicosia). He is Cypriot (with international upbringing including time in the US, Mexico, and the former Soviet Union) and frequently broadcasts from there. The channel is widely viewed as having a Russia-sympathetic propaganda commentary. They regularly argue that Russia is winning militarily, criticize NATO expansion/Western strategy as failed, question Ukrainian/Western claims, and frame events in ways favorable to Moscow (e.g., Europe negotiating from weakness). Critics often label them as pro-Russia or alternative/propaganda media; they describe themselves as independent geopolitical analysts challenging mainstream Western narratives. keywiki.org This was one channel I watched early after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Their favorability towards Russia vs. the United States, and western allies is very clear. Don’t be duped folks.

The war mongers are in Tehran, not Washington. Between 2009 and 2025, the United States spent twelve years under Obama and Biden trying to reach a modus vivendi with the Islamic Republic. Sanctions relief, diplomacy, outreach, engagement. Yet a stable accommodation remained elusive. Why? Veterans of the Obama team and their ideological supporters blame America’s supposed “war mongers.” The claim is absurd. The central argument of the hawks has never been that conflict is desirable. It is that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is a revolutionary jihadi organization that can only be deterred, not seduced. Most Americans would prefer engagement to work. They are not eager for confrontation. They will give diplomacy every chance to succeed. But they are not willing to ignore reality indefinitely. The problem was never those of us warning about the impossibility of a lasting accommodation with Tehran. The problem was Tehran itself. When engagement fails year after year, American leaders return to deterrence not because American hawks are politically powerful, but because their diagnosis is far more accurate. We hawks did not scuttle engagement. Tehran did.

“An anarchist would not attempt to impose his legal system on anyone else.“ Exactly - which is why anarchists would be subjugated by Islamists, and the Islamists would feel *completely* religiously and legally justified in doing so I use Islam deliberately here. I have seen *none* of the popular libertarian anarchist commentators like Dave Smith, Michael Malice, Tom Woods, or Bob Murphy ever try to take it on. It is a holistic system that incorporates not only theological beliefs and specific daily personal practices for its adherents, but also a legal system and *a religious call to impose that system on nonbelievers all over the world* And there are nearly two billion adherents to it What does libertarian anarchy have to say about that? I’ve only heard crickets and seen handwaving - with a dash of “Uhh… Israel!!1!” That’s why anarchy ultimately falls apart: it needs everyone in society to buy into it, and it reverts right back to the statist order it was intended to replace when a group of people defects from that anarchistic system and starts aggressing all over the place They don’t have an answer for the Karmelo Anthony problem that I described in my OP (at least not one that is perfectly consistent with their worldview) Trust me, I *wish* anarchy were a realistic stance to take, and I feel like an anarchist on April 15 every year. Also, serious anarchist thinkers like Murray Rothbard and David Friedman deserve to be taken seriously, and their critiques of the effects of different government policies are some of the most devastating out there But ultimately, simply pointing out how bad government is will only get you so far. Rothbard painted a vague picture of what anarchy might look like, and Friedman took it a little further by trying to think through what a polycentric legal order would operate while also looking for historical examples of anarchic-like systems operating in practice - and no, we’re not talking about “math” here (and yes, I know exactly what you meant by that) Those systems all ultimately failed. To use economic language, they were outcompeted by monopoly providers of law. Twitter ancaps might have an idea of what anarchy looks like in their heads (they live in Ancapistan in their heads…), but they have no realistic plans to get us from here to there. The moment you ask them, they say that “the state” uses propaganda to fool the public into believing in it - which is basically Marxist false consciousness retooled for a libertarian audience. Ask them to vote for (or run as) a Republican, and they’ll react like if you told them to cut off an arm. There’s more at play than simply normies being propagandized against their own best interests. Humans are flawed creatures, and human institutions and societies are just as flawed - because they’re made of humans. You’re going to need to do more than simply drop copies of “Anatomy of the State” all over the place from helicopters to root out the core problems caused by government

It was a very interesting discussion between the both of you, and thank you both for keeping things civil. With that being said, what’s dangerous about Mr. Malice’s stance in this discussion is that a Leftist or an Islamist can use it to justify just about every instance of Left-wing or Islamist violence, from Charlie Kirk’s murder to the Bolshevik Revolution to 9/11, without needing to change very much. Perhaps Mr. Rothman’s arguments have some weaknesses, and Mr. Malice makes some valid points at times, but I think Malice’s overall approach is thoroughly dangerous, counterproductive, and anti-liberty - it would result in a much more authoritarian world that Malice does not want to bring about. The irony of libertarians and anarchists (people who supposedly know about the economic concept of time preference) is that many of them have a very high time preference for achieving the political world they want and impossibly high standards for what that word should look like. Voting *does* result in actual change. It just takes more time than most of them are willing to devote to make their desired political ends come about (certainly more than one election cycle). It’s, frankly, a juvenile way of looking at the political world: “I can’t get what I want immediately, so I’m gonna go home and throw a tantrum in my room about it!” Liberty is won and lost on the margin on a daily basis in different ways and in different places all over the world, and there will never be a world permanently free of any form of government (which is essentially what anarchists quixotically hope to achieve) - because the social forces and human impulses that caused the first states to emerge in human history will always be there (unless we evolve into some different kind of species, which will take a few hundred thousand years). A permanent anarchy would be nice to have if it was possible, but it simply isn’t - in part because even anarchists can’t agree on what anarchy would actually look like or how anarchist law would actually operate in practice (or, at least, how it wouldn’t just devolve back into she statist system it supposedly overthrew) What anarchists actually mean by anarchy is “choice in legal systems” - specifically the exact legal system they prefer. The problem arises when an anarchist who subscribes to Sharia law feels justified in forcing his legal system on a non-Muslim - because that’s what his subjective legal code says he is allowed to do, and his fellow Muslim anarchists who run the private Sharia courts to which he’d bring any suits to adjudicate (because he won’t agree to hear those cases in any other courts) would agree with him. Now, you have conflict - probably only ultimately resolvable by “war” (that is, physical coercion between two or more parties at odds with each other). Obviously, the problem is not just with Islamists, but that’s simply one example of an imperial legal system that at least some people in an anarchist world would subscribe to; there are plenty others, and in a world of anarchy, people would be free to come up with literally any legal code they want. What you would eventually end up with is a bunch of large states that impose a single legal code over a particular geographic area that sometimes band together to stop aggression from other states that try to impose their legal codes on them. In other words, you’re… right back where you started 😵‍💫 Unlike communism, real anarchy *has* actually been tried before - and it ultimately lost out to states. I don’t like it, but it’s just the way it is. 🤷‍♂️ (Yes, folks, that communism quip is a joke - socialism and all its forms is the worst legal and economic system to ever have been devised by humans.)

I expect my Vice President - a United States Marine at that - to know that WWII ended with Germany’s 𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 on May 8, 1945 and Japan’s 𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 on September 2, 1945. 𝗡𝗼𝘁 “𝗻𝗲𝗴𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.” 𝗨𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿. I get that he’s young and all, but he did go to Yale, didn’t he? It’s embarrassing. But it’s a lot more than embarrassing when the same guy is out here pushing negotiations with regimes that have been chanting “𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢” for decades while sprinting toward nuclear weapons and funding terror. History has receipts. Appeasement has a body count. We don’t need more clever deals that buy our enemies time. We need clarity, strength, and the same resolve that actually ended the last world war. Just sayin’…

Tulsi Gabbard’s office is rebranding publicly available documents as “declassified evidence” to support a bioweapons narrative that the slides explicitly don’t support. They were already public, ODNI just re-stamped them as “declassified.” They’re NOT evidence of bioweapons either. These are the SAME as the 2022 Pentagon documents and the slides are literally excerpts from the 2022 DTRA fact sheet, released publicly by the Pentagon in March 2022, 19 months before Gabbard called them “declassified.”

The "deep state" let Russia take Crimea. The "deep state" let Putin invade the Donbas. The "deep state" made Ukraine surrender its nukes. The "deep state" tried to prohibit Ukraine from doing deep strikes into Russian territory. The "deep state" tipped off the Russians when Ukraine tried to do them anyway. The "deep state" gave Russia uranium. The "deep state" went into business with Russian oligarchs. The "deep state" tried to reset relations with Russia multiple times. The "deep state" only ever pretended to support Ukraine out of opportunism because it was politically expedient to use Russia as a cudgel to stop the Bad Orange Man and they had to commit to the bit. Notice how the "deep state" and the rest of the left have totally forgotten about Ukraine now that the Russia investigation is long over.