Alastair Crooke

Washington’s real interests in Ukraine must be understood not as a war of values but rather as […]

The Moscow-Berlin alliance had to be sabotaged to prevent further economic integration that would have drawn the […]

To decipher the true potential of President Putin’s recent Valdai speech – for de-conflicting with the West […]

Empires had existed for millennia, but their virtue was having been driven by a vigorous cultural energy […]

Since 2008, we have lived in a western world shaped by the ‘permanent state’ or by our […]

We now have an embarrassment of ‘wars’ of which paradoxically, Ukraine is perhaps of lesser strategic import, […]

Did Borrell and his diplomat battalions not see that the US was undergoing a profound change? Did […]

Alistair Crooke, former British diplomat and founder and director of the Conflict Forum, delves into the culture […]

The Ukraine war ‘bubble’ is deflating as the U.S. and Europe reach the bottom of the arms […]

Europe stands amid schizophrenic tensions. On one hand, ‘the Normal’ (high-end ostentatious consumption) is very present, yet, […]

From the Inside – Developments in the War between Russia Ukraine and NATO With Former MI6 & […]

Sir A Conan Doyle: Holmes: Curious: the fact that the dog did not bark when you would […]