Alastair Crooke

Former EU advisor and founder and director of the Conflicts Forum, Alastair Crooke on self-harming EU sanctions. […]

Whilst Europe and the U.S. never have been more closely aligned, the ‘West’ paradoxically has also never […]

In an improbable twist for Ukraine, the US Neocons ‘are back’, claiming vindication for military force In […]

Today’s zeitgeist is that all politics is but a Manichaean tapestry of the ‘good’ and those who […]

The present military operation in Ukraine, in due time, will be relegated to little more than a […]

Former British diplomat Alastair Crooke, founder and director of the Conflict Forum, provides a strategic and in-depth […]

External actors removed from the frenzy that is largely focused in Europe must be shaking their heads […]

Ukraine may be many things … but a ‘gospel of democracy’? We all know that the western […]

Russia and China are making a show of power to force a withdrawal in the boundaries of […]

Biden, finally, has his foreign policy ‘success’: Europe is walling itself off from Russia, China, and the […]

Putin means what he says: Russia’s back is to the wall, and there is nowhere to which […]

If the leadership in Tehran decides a deal is in its interests – then, and only then, […]