Alastair Crooke is a journalist and writer who contributes to the UNZ Foundation, as well as other media outlets such as Al Mayadeen media network and GlobalResearch. His articles cover a range of topics including geopolitics, international relations, and cultural analysis, often offering unique perspectives and insights.
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Take, for example, the NATO-orchestrated and equipped incursion into the symbolically significant Kursk Oblast.
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War has broken out. There is no need for further pretence about it. In the Washington Post on Monday, the headlines read: Musk and Durov are facing the revenge of the regulators . Former U.S.
By: Alastair Crooke
Judging by Israeli statements, the consensus is that Hizbullah will retaliate, but in a way that is different from the way it has responded until now.
FacebookTwitter Trump is not the ‘right card’, in the view of the U.S. power-élites; the Joker should have been pulled from the pack.
The West is in the throes of at least one, potentially two, crushing defeats at the moment – and so the question arises: Will lessons be learned?
Playing nice’ won’t change its paradigm. Failure does. With the assassination of Sayed Hassan Nasrallah and a number of the Hizbullah senior leadership in Beirut – expressly without prior warning being given to the Pentagon – Netanyahu fired the start gun on an implicit Israeli widening of war to – using Israel’s term – the ‘octopus’ tentacles’: Hizbullah in Lebanon; Ansarullah in Yemen; the Syrian government and the Iraqi Hash’ad A-Shaabi forces. Well, after the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh and part of Hizbullah’s leadership cadre (including a senior Iranian general), Iran – demonised as the ‘octopus head’ – entered the … Continue reading →
All the war “games” played over successive years have resulted in America losing.
By: Alastair Crooke
Of course, a victory narrative was too valuable to be foregone. Yet nonetheless, unexplained events matter.
The West doesn't have the financial clout to pursue global primacy – if it ever did.
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