(Paraphrasing Jaroslav Zajicek, Czech Coreper Ambassador) The EU leadership is resolved to ignore protest messaging, however loud it becomes.There is a whiff of desperation floating across the Brussels battlespace. Forget the Ukraine war – that is a lost cause, and just a matter of time, until its final unravelling; yet the Ukraine – as icon […]
Alastair Crooke
Ilusions Of Superiority. What’s Next? by Alastair Crooke
It will need a long catharsis to purge Europe of its illusions of superiority – as perceived by the non-west.In January 2013, President Xi Jinping gave a speech to the members of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. His speech gave insight into our world as it ‘is’, and secondly, though its analysis […]
Reading The Runes Of War by Alastair Crooke
Putin’s policy of cleansing the Augean Stables of ‘predatory western capital’ is music to the ears of the Global South, Alastair Crooke writes. Of course, the conflict, to all intents, is settled – though is far from over. It is clear that Russia will prevail in the military war – and the political war too […]
‘If We Don’t End The War, War Will End Us’ by Alastair Crooke
Europe now is stuck ‘up to the gills’ with wide-ranging economic sanctions on Russia, and unable to confront the consequences. Emmanuel Macron irritated many people (just as Kissinger did at the WEF), when he said, ‘we should not humiliate Vladimir Putin’, because there must be a negotiated settlement. This has been French policy from early […]
The World Doesn’t Work That Way Anymore by Alastair Crooke
The fixation with Ukraine essentially is but a gloss pasted over the realities of a global order in decomposition. The First World War signalled the end to a mercantilist order that had evolved under the aegis of European powers. One hundred years later, a very different economic order was in place (neoliberal cosmopolitanism). Believed by […]
Disquiet At Davos And The Unsaid Fear Of Failure – The First Shoots Of A U.S. Ukraine Shift by Alastair Crooke
The unspoken fear disquieting Davos attendees is the fear of another débacle, following that of Afghanistan. Klaus Schwab, passionate for Ukraine, essentially configured the World Economic Forum (WEF) to showcase Zelensky and to leverage the argument that Russia should be kicked out of the civilised world. Schwab’s target was the assembled crème de la crème […]
Enemies Within And The Discomfort Of Truth by Alastair Crooke
Is Europe’s ‘totalitarianism’ of today of a more refined type – not so-violent, and therefore deserving of a ‘pass’? Remember Jamal Khashoggi? I knew him a little, meeting quite a few times over the years. Clearly he was no regime ‘hack’. He had his differences with the Saudi leadership, but he was essentially a Saudi […]
The Blind Alleys Of European Politics by Alastair Crooke
The crises are running, faster and faster, well beyond the abilities of EU rigid structures and mindsets to respond. The French election result has again demonstrated the hard-edged rigidities of European society which make the prospect of strong purposeful (i.e. transformative) government, of the ilk of say a de Gaulle, almost impossible to emerge today […]
A Once In A Century Opportunity by Alastair Crooke
“The era of liberal globalization is over. Before our eyes, a new world economic order is being formed”Wow! How rapidly the wheel of fortune turns. It seems like only yesterday that a French Finance minister was touting the imminent the collapse of the Russian economy, and President Biden celebrated the Rouble being “reduced to rubble” […]
Burning Globalist Structures To Save the Globalist ‘Liberal Order’ by Alastair Crooke
Biden, finally, has his foreign policy ‘success’: Europe is walling itself off from Russia, China, and the emerging integrated Asian market. In its triple strike of sanctions on Russia, the EU initially was not looking to collapse the Russian financial system. Far from it: Its first instinct was to find the means to continue purchasing […]