Alastair Crooke

Trump may not be prepared to go to war for Israel, but others in the US Establishment […]

U.S. pressures will escalate – in line with the binary ‘either/or’ ultimatum, and Iran will then push […]

David Wurmser is Matryoska’s ‘doll’ within: no military invasion, but just a strategy to blow apart the […]

Iran – wisely – has eschewed direct, state-to-state military conflict, for a more subtle, and pernicious war […]

Boris Johnson has done the impossible – but done it by doing the precise opposite of what […]

The EU premise was of ‘uncle’ America, always being ‘there’, in case of difficulties. This is no […]

The new type of warfare is using economic pressure to trigger popular protest and then to leverage […]

Democracy – as experienced – too often has become the institutional tool to smother smouldering anger, Alastair […]

Is Trump’s effort at outreach to Russia connected to his vision of how the US might transition […]

What is driving the sudden focus on ‘the flawed system’ in Lebanon is simply hard reality, Alastair […]

What if maximum pressure fails either to implode the Iranian state politically, nor brings Iran to its […]

The MidEast may pass through its crises but be aware that the there is no alternative meme […]