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The Greatest (Geo-Political) Showman’s ‘Inside Out’ Political Solution – OpEd

How to do the impossible? America is instinctively an expansionist power, needing new fields to conquer; new financial horizons to

07.02.2025 10

Alastair Crooke

Is Trump Positioning For A ‘No-Deal’ With Russia – Or Not? – OpEd

Trump’s rhetoric about Russia having lost one million men in the Ukraine conflict is not just nonsense (the real number

29.01.2025 30

Alastair Crooke

Aristotle Predicted Trump’s Inauguration – OpEd

By James E. Jennings The Athenian philosopher Aristotle predicted Donald Trump’s second inauguration on January 20, 2025 more than 2,300

21.01.2025 30

Alastair Crooke

The Competency Crisis Proliferating The West – OpEd

The essayist and military strategist, Aurelien, has written a paper entitled: The Strange Defeat (original in French). The ‘strange...

21.01.2025 10

Alastair Crooke

Trump, Iran And The Obama Strategic Blueprint – OpEd

Like a smashed antique clock – with its elaborate cogs, ratchet wheels and innards splayed out from the casing –

14.01.2025 10

Alastair Crooke

Can Trump Save America From Itself? – OpEd

Russian FM Lavrov last week dismissed Team Trump’s floated peace proposals for Ukraine as unsatisfactory. Essentially, the Russian view is

11.01.2025 10

Alastair Crooke

Imperial Hubris (And Its Consequences) In Syria – OpEd

The Syria story, it seems, is not so simple as ‘President Assad fell’ and the ‘ technocratic Salafists ’ rose to power. At one level, the...

02.01.2025 10

Alastair Crooke

The ‘King-Makers’ Pull The Rug From Syria, Yet Again: A ‘Greek Tragedy’ Begins – OpEd

James Jeffrey, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and Turkey, in a March 2021 interview with PBS Frontline, laid out very plainly the template for...

23.12.2024 5

Alastair Crooke

A New Geo-Political Map Is Unfolding: The End Of Syria (And Of ‘Palestine’ For Now) – OpEd

Syria has entered the abyss – the demons of al-Qa’eda, ISIS, and the most intransigent elements of the Muslim Brotherhood are circling the skies....

17.12.2024 6

Alastair Crooke

Erdogan’s Idlib Shock Shadows ‘Kursk’ – OpEd

‘Doomsters’ is an occasional Russian expression used to categorise commentators that only see the ‘dark side to events’ (a vice quite...

07.12.2024 6

Alastair Crooke

The Long War To Reaffirm Western And Israeli Primacy Undergoes A Shape-Shift – OpEd

The long war to reaffirm western and Israeli primacy is undergoing a shape-shift. On one front, the calculus in respect to Russia and the Ukraine...

03.12.2024 2

Alastair Crooke

The Counter-Insurgency Is ‘On’ – Against Trump’s ‘Storm’ – OpEd

The Deep State whispered to Trump: ‘You cannot withstand the storm’. Trump whispered back : “I am the storm”. The war is on. The Deep State has...

23.11.2024 10

Alastair Crooke

There Are No ‘Easy Wars’ Left To Fight, But Do Not Mistake The Longing For One – OpEd

Israelis, as a whole, are exhibiting a rosy assurance that they can harness Trump, if not to the full annexation of the Occupied Territories (Trump...

16.11.2024 8

Alastair Crooke

The West’s Very Fundamental Accumulating Contradictions – OpEd

The election has occurred; Trump will take office in January; many of the existing Party Nomenklatura will be replaced; different policies will be...

12.11.2024 4

Alastair Crooke

Netanyahu’s ‘Imaginary War Narrative’ Strategy: ‘If It Works, Fine; If Not, No Big Deal. We’ll Try Something Else’ – OpEd

On Oct. 26, an Israeli force of some 100 aircraft attacked Iran from a stand-off position in Iraq, some 70 kilometres outside the Iranian border....

04.11.2024 2

Alastair Crooke

A ‘Heroic’ Preference For Self-Destruction Is Taking Hold In Israel – OpEd

Centuries ago a boy was born. His parents understood that he had a remarkable fate before him which reflected the Will of the Great Shaman. His...

30.10.2024 3

Alastair Crooke

A Stunning De-Capitation? The Netanyahu ‘Madness’ – OpEd

A major war between Israel and Iran is soon likely to erupt – so says Israel’s Defence Minister Gallant. It will be initiated when Israel launches...

28.10.2024 2

Alastair Crooke

Israel Does What It Does; It Was Always Planned This Way – OpEd

With the assassination of Sayed Hassan Nasrallah and a number of the Hizbullah senior leadership in Beirut – expressly without prior warning being...

15.10.2024 3

Alastair Crooke

Perfidy In Tehran – OpEd

John Kerry, just last week at the World Economic Forum, so clearly blurting out the truth: “Our First Amendment stands as a major block to our...

08.10.2024 20

Alastair Crooke

Will Israel ‘Recklessly’ Seize The Day? ‘Have The Doors To A War Without Limits Been Opened?’ – OpEd

“After today [the day of the pager simultaneous explosions], there can be no talk about settlement and solutions”, writes Ibrahim Amine, Editor...

24.09.2024 4

Alastair Crooke

Closing Hatches Before Rains Founder The Western Vessel – OpEd

Israel is entering the next phase of its war on Palestine by completing its takeover of the Gaza Strip – from the northern border to the Netzarim...

17.09.2024 4

Alastair Crooke

Enabling A ‘Brutus’ To Slay The Elon Musk ‘Caesar’ – OpEd

In the Washington Post on Monday, the headlines read: Musk and Durov are facing the revenge of the regulators. Former U.S. Labor Secretary,...

10.09.2024 9

Alastair Crooke

The Western Way Of War: Owning The Narrative Trumps Reality – OpEd

War propaganda and feint are as old as the hills. Nothing new. But what is new is that infowar is no longer the adjunct to wider war objectives –...

29.08.2024 2

Alastair Crooke

An Intricate Fabric Of Bad Actors Working Hand-In-Hand: So Is War Inevitable? – OpEd

Walter Kirn, an American novelist and cultural critic, in his 2009 memoir, Lost in the Meritocracy, described how, after a sojourn at Oxford, he...

14.08.2024 2

Alastair Crooke

The 1948 Irgun Re-Born? – OpEd

The signposts are there for all to read: The West – in deliberately overlooking such explicit markers – cannot then complain, or escape, the...

07.08.2024 3

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