Alastair Crooke

The Ukraine issue touched on existential fears in the West (as well as deep strains of Russophobia) […]

Today, Iran is demonised as an intolerable threat to western global Order. But it was not always […]

For now, the goal for Ukraine and its NATO allies should be to contain the Russian offensive […]

As the US ignites disruptive bushfires around Russia’s periphery — in Kazakhstan (again), Belarus (again), Georgia, Poland, […]

Is Europe’s ‘totalitarianism’ of today of a more refined type – not so-violent, and therefore deserving of […]

What lies behind this mess? Well, on the one hand, hubris; but also, the failure to do […]

The crises are running, faster and faster, well beyond the abilities of EU rigid structures and mindsets […]

The divide can’t be hidden anymore. What is the Dead Wood era? It is the hiatus ‘twixt […]

Russia-China axis possess food, energy, technology and most of the world’s key resources. History teaches that these […]

‘War is war’, and this war is set to escalate. It is indeed war. NATO is at […]

The most likely outcome is Russia’s economy will not collapse (even were the EU to go the […]

Despite the barrage of sanctions that the Russian economy got hit with at the start of the […]