… a Headline Showstopper Negotiations between the U.S. and Iran reaching an agreed outcome seem far off. “Depending on who you ask, the U.S. bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities in Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan was either a smashing success…
Category: Alastair Crooke
Alastair Crooke CMG (sometimes mis-spelled as Alistair Crooke), born 1949, is a former British diplomat, and is the founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum, an organisation that advocates for engagement between political Islam and the West. Previously he was a ranking figure in both British intelligence (MI6) and European Union diplomacy.
The silence of the bears will soon be ended and we will know more about Russian resolve. Russia’s leadership is in ‘conclave’ determining its riposte. Trump has been silent for two days. Unprecedented. In the…
The new era marks the end to ‘old politics’: The Red vs Blue; Right vs Left labels lose relevance. Even the need for transition – just to be clear – has only just begun to be recognised in…
This Trump transformation of America was intended to be rebuilt as America First. The story, both on Ukraine and Iran, is that President Trump wants a ‘deal’ – and both deals are available – yet he seems nonetheless…
What is understood now is that ‘we’re no longer playing chess’. There are no rules anymore. Trump’s ultimatum to Iran? Colonel Doug Macgregor compares the Trump ultimatum to Iran to that which Austria-Hungary delivered to…
A U.S. economic ‘re-balancing’ is coming. Putin is right. The post-WWII economic order ‘is gone’ The post-WWII geo-political outcome effectively determined the post-war global economic structure. Both are now undergoing huge change. What remains stuck…
If Europe pretends to replace the U.S., it is going to be extremely expensive, very politically costly, and it will fail. President Trump wants Ukraine settled, full stop. This is so that he can move…
Ostensibly, it is not in Europe’s interest to mount a concerted resistance against the U.S. President over a failed war. They (the Euro-élites) don’t have a chance: “If Trump imposes this tariff [25%], the U.S. will…
Trump does not buy into the primary lie intended as the glue which holds this entire EU geo-political structure together. The bits are falling into a distinct pattern – a pre-prepared pattern. Defence Secretary Hegseth…
“This is Putin and Trump’s world now”. Trump and his team have been busy dismantling – and exposing to public view – the mechanism to the all-encompassing narrative control machine which has been shown to…