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

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

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

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

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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