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Trump's War Overreach May Be the Straw That Breaks the Back of the West’s Financialised Architecture, by Alastair Crooke

26 October 2026 at 04:10
From the streets of Paris to the Strait of Hormuz, Western liberal economies are caught in a trap of their own making Almost everywhere there is a deepening sense that the western Liberal economic project is on the verge of collapsing in very fundamental ways — most obviously, this has been on display on the...

The Iran War and the 'Terrible Power of the Purse', by Alastair Crooke

26 October 2026 at 04:00
Netanyahu is telling Trump that he needs now to finish the job of destroying Iran The ‘Grand Design’ to “maintain [western civilisation’s] place at the head of the world” (as U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio put it) requires the tools for ensuring compliance are two-fold: The creating of destructive revolutionary fervour from below (now...

Yet Another Financialised Peace Initiative from the Witkoff-Kushner Stable, by Alastair Crooke

22 October 2026 at 05:10
Instead of prioritizing stakeholder profit, the Witkoff-Europe combo should address Eurasian security architecture and NATO-Russia-China frontiers to gain traction in Moscow. Back in December 2025, U.S. commentator Sundance, writing in the Conservative Treehouse, wrote about Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner’s new ‘Money Diplomacy’ solution for Ukraine that “require[d] [the establishment of] a system whereby the...

The 'War of Grand Design' Transforms to More Narrowly Bolster US Hegemony, by Alastair Crooke

20 October 2026 at 05:00
To preserve its supremacy, Washington is pushing Europe to the front line against Russia, even at the risk of nuclear escalation The paradigm shifts. The networked supra-national stratum that long has pursued its global ‘grand design’ through manufacturing public consent for wars of imposed compliance has, at last, run up against the limits to power....

Mohammed Bin Salman Is More at Risk Internally Than from AnsarAllah Attacks, by Alastair Crooke

12 October 2026 at 05:00
Disgruntled tribes, a sidelined clergy, an army divided by design. While Houthi missiles hit Riyadh, the crown prince’s power grab may prove his undoing. As part of its ‘blockade-for-blockade’, ‘airport-for-airport’ strategy, Ansarallah carried out a third attack on Riyadh International Airport on Saturday — 12 people (mostly civilians) were killed and more than 300 injured....
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