Alastair Crooke

Behind the calls for Russia to ‘open the taps’ on Russian gas to supply Europe, is the […]

Does Europe possess the energy and the humility to look itself in the mirror, and re-position itself […]

The US flight from Kabul, and the AUKUS deal, hatched behind Europe’s back, unmissably has revealed that […]

Can an America that off-shored much of its manufacturing capacity to China, for short-term profit, afford the […]

The new order is being unfolded, even if it remains rhetorically dressed in the clothes of the […]

All of Central Asia is re-setting towards the SCO, EAEU, Russia and China. The former is now […]

What we see in Afghanistan is a Taliban leadership very different from that which I knew in […]

The paradigmatic blow given by Afghanistan to the Western vision, arrives at a historic moment of inflection: […]

What we see is an attempt to impose an idealised technical managerialism onto a complex, rather than […]

It is pretty obvious that in the wake of the Afghan debacle, there is little appetite in […]

Beijing has resolved that subjugation (opium or gaming addiction) will never be allowed to happen again The […]

Nation-building in Afghanistan arrived in 2001. Western interventions into the old Eastern bloc in the 1980s and […]