Alastair Crooke

Biden wanted to have the option to pop in – and pop out of the Accord at […]

It seems that Russia and China will remain aloof and patient – waiting upon structures to crack, […]

The Biden Administration approaches their key diplomatic partners waving Washington’s demands as if these states should answer […]

Incumbents of the White House come and go, but U.S. security objectives do not alter course so […]

All recent wargaming simulations show that the US – with or without AUKUS – would lose a […]

Behind the calls for Russia to ‘open the taps’ on Russian gas to supply Europe, is the […]

Does Europe possess the energy and the humility to look itself in the mirror, and re-position itself […]

The US flight from Kabul, and the AUKUS deal, hatched behind Europe’s back, unmissably has revealed that […]

Can an America that off-shored much of its manufacturing capacity to China, for short-term profit, afford the […]

The new order is being unfolded, even if it remains rhetorically dressed in the clothes of the […]

All of Central Asia is re-setting towards the SCO, EAEU, Russia and China. The former is now […]

What we see in Afghanistan is a Taliban leadership very different from that which I knew in […]