The West is stuck between the public sentiment which it contrived and the reality on the ground, Alastair Crooke writes.

Bibi is by nature cautious – even timid. His radical ministers, however, are not, Alastair Crooke writes.

The West is too dysfunctional and weak now to fight on all fronts. Yet there can be no retreat without some de-legitimising humiliation of the West.

The West now faces the task of de-fusing the landmine of their own electorate’s conviction of a Ukraine ‘win’, and of Russian humiliation.

When the U.S. begins its pivot away from Ukraine, and looks fully to Europeanise the war, the political class won’t be seen ‘for the dust’. “Appetites of the autocrat cannot be appeased. They must be opposed. Autocrats only understand one […]

Where does Europe go in the wake of the Nord Stream allegations? It is hard to see a Germany-dominated Europe diverging far from Washington.

Bill Burns travelled (in secret) in mid-January to meet Zelensky. Was it to prepare Zelensky for a shift in the American stance?

Weak leadership has lifted the lid on the European Pandora’s box, Alastair Crooke writes.

Russia is unlikely to take the bait: It has the real strategic advantage in all areas of engagement with the Ukrainian forces.

The U.S. government is hostage to its financial hegemony in a way that is rarely fully understood.