Alastair Crooke

Europe is destined to become an economic backwater. It has ‘lost’ Russia — and soon China. And […]

Both the US and Europe staked their future – ‘our democracy’ – on insisting the world sees […]

Going Underground is back on air for the first time since April, now broadcasting to you from […]

It becomes questionable whether the West can compete as a civilisational state and maintain a presence. The […]

The western ‘Iran containment mechanism’ (known as the JCPOA) paradoxically was ‘holed on the rocks’ of US […]

How the world appears all depends on whether your gaze is firmly focussed on the hub of […]

Western belligerency has left Iran no option but to go all in with Russia and the Eurasian […]

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 […]