Alastair Crooke

A US ‘sentinel’ state on the Bab-el-Mandab choke-point, disrupting China’s Maritime Silk Road. The US is at […]

‘Encirclement’ and ‘containment’ effectively have become Biden’s default foreign policy The key to China’s security riposte to […]

Opposing others’ spheres of interest is now inherent to the US’ diplomatic DNA. Andrew Bacevich, the US […]

Western politics today are no more about considered strategy: It is pretty evident that the U.S. team […]

The outbreak of Putin ‘derangement symptom’ occurring precisely in the lead-up to crucial talks in Geneva this […]

The corollary to the collapse of the technocratic initiative to liquify the over-leveraged economy might well be […]

US dominance faces a multitude of threats worldwide. While the US sees Russian demands as unrealistic, Russia […]

Does Biden have a choice? Can he acquiesce to a negotiated settlement with all three of America’s […]

Russia continues to signal NATO about its security ‘red lines’, while the US announces that it is […]

In a world order that is changing rapidly, scenarios that look to be separated contexts fall all […]

It is the first time that others are dictating to the West rather than being instructed on […]

The western block faces severe challenges to the geo-strategic balance that favored its interests. Other parties such […]