Alastair Crooke

Iran’s calculus implicit in its messaging is that Trump does not want a war, and Iran does […]

Inspired by his intellectual hero Bernard Lewis, Pompeo, together with Richard Perle’s PNAC colleague, John Bolton, seems […]

Has Trump convinced himself that the Administration’s wider bluster is actually winning: Making America Great Again? On […]

Iran will not necessarily look for escalation: to wriggle through will be to win a major symbolic […]

Trump’s instincts still remain that a channel with Mr Putin is essential. But the demonization of Russia […]

The Gulf grandees have a right to be edgy, Alastair Crooke writes. They can see that Trump’s […]

Is not the stand-off taking place within the EU somehow a re-run of the struggles that were […]

‘The West’ is no longer the West. There is the belligerent ‘West’ of Trump, Pence, Bolton and […]

Wherever Pompeo travels on his journeys through the region, he cannot fail but to notice that US […]

The deep sense of growing inequalities is matched only by popular fears of community ‘safety-nets’ that have […]

The Israeli military and security establishment have never relished the prospect of outright war with Iran, unless […]

We might conclude that the Ben Op is just a uniquely American manifestation, of little wider import […]