Alastair Crooke

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, […]

Mass-data cloud analysis has become the new type modus operandi, vice basing forecasts on a psychological profiling […]

It seems that Russia and China have come to the conclusion that if a global order is […]

It seems reasonable to expect we will have this crisis with us – in its various forms […]