Alastair Crooke

Ultimately, Trump will find himself in a corner in which he never wished to find himself: It […]

The Kushner – Trump ‘Deal’, in respect to the integration of Israel into the regional energy economy […]

The consensus on ‘no conflict’ unfortunately, may turn out to have been overly sanguine. This is not […]

The pendulum of power in the Middle East has shifted northwards, as a result of Syria’s defeat […]

The escalation against Iran serves rather as camouflage for a considerably more profound civilizational and metaphysical conflict. […]

Iran’s calculus implicit in its messaging is that Trump does not want a war, and Iran does […]

Inspired by his intellectual hero Bernard Lewis, Pompeo, together with Richard Perle’s PNAC colleague, John Bolton, seems […]

Has Trump convinced himself that the Administration’s wider bluster is actually winning: Making America Great Again? On […]

Iran will not necessarily look for escalation: to wriggle through will be to win a major symbolic […]

Trump’s instincts still remain that a channel with Mr Putin is essential. But the demonization of Russia […]

The Gulf grandees have a right to be edgy, Alastair Crooke writes. They can see that Trump’s […]

Is not the stand-off taking place within the EU somehow a re-run of the struggles that were […]