Alastair Crooke

Europe’s future looks bleak. It is now pressed by its own imposition of sanctions, and the resultant […]

Got it? Crystal clear? “Israel” is habitually ‘against’, but the quality of its ‘no’ is bi-directional. It […]

Europe now is stuck ‘up to the gills’ with wide-ranging economic sanctions on Russia, and unable to […]

It is understandable for Middle Eastern states to stay aloof, as ‘bystanders’, but that does not mean […]

The fixation with Ukraine essentially is but a gloss pasted over the realities of a global order […]

While the West thinks the Ukraine crisis is unfolding into something similar to the cold war, historical […]

The unspoken fear disquieting Davos attendees is the fear of another débacle, following that of Afghanistan. Klaus […]

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 […]