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<item><title>The World Financial and Geo-Political Framework at a Time of Imminent Disorder, by Alastair Crooke</title><link>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/the-world-financial-and-geo-political-framework-at-a-time-of-imminent-disorder/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/the-world-financial-and-geo-political-framework-at-a-time-of-imminent-disorder/#comments</comments><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 04:00:07 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alastair Crooke]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551234</guid><description><![CDATA[Putin remains focussed on achieving a new Europe-wide security architecture. Trump’s attempt to build a ‘Budapest scenario’ (i.e. a Putin-Trump summit grounded on the earlier Alaska ‘understanding’) was unilaterally cancelled (by the U.S.) amid acrimony. Putin had initiated the 2.5 hr Monday call. It reportedly contained tough talking by Putin about the lack of U.S....]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>21</slash:comments></item><item><title>Waiting on Images of Abject Submission That Don’t Appear, by Alastair Crooke</title><link>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/waiting-on-images-of-abject-submission-that-dont-appear/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/waiting-on-images-of-abject-submission-that-dont-appear/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 04:00:06 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alastair Crooke]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=550869</guid><description><![CDATA[Continued U.S. ‘dominance’ requires striking out in multiple directions, because the unidirectional war on Russia unexpectedly has failed. Trump: “This problem with Vietnam … We stopped fighting to win. We would have won easy. We would have won Afghanistan easy. Would have won every war easy. But we got politically correct: ‘Ah, let’s take it...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>157</slash:comments></item><item><title>'Moving Fast; Breaking Things': A New Doctrine Takes Root; a New Era of Coerced Dominance, by Alastair Crooke</title><link>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/moving-fast-breaking-things-a-new-doctrine-takes-root-a-new-era-of-coerced-dominance/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/moving-fast-breaking-things-a-new-doctrine-takes-root-a-new-era-of-coerced-dominance/#comments</comments><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 04:00:27 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alastair Crooke]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=550785</guid><description><![CDATA[Neither Europe nor the U.S. seemingly possesses the mettle for real war. And certainly, neither do their publics. Creeping, thunderous changes are underway in the West. A new political doctrine has taken root: Western Conservative (and younger) populist thinking is being rebuilt as something rougher, meaner, and far less sentimental, or tolerant. It aspires to...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>170</slash:comments></item><item><title>American Juncture as Israel’s Eighth Front Ignites, by Alastair Crooke</title><link>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/american-juncture-as-israels-eighth-front-ignites/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/american-juncture-as-israels-eighth-front-ignites/#comments</comments><pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2025 04:00:38 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alastair Crooke]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=550645</guid><description><![CDATA[Putin can live with Trump’s ‘Janus schizophrenia’ – as Russian forces advance on all key battle fronts. The second stage to Trump’s ‘hand-off’ of the Ukraine war to the Europeans was clearly set out in his Truth Social post of 23 September. In the first phase of the hand-over, Trump withdrew from being the primary...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>199</slash:comments></item><item><title>The Genie of 'Israeli First' Dominance Is Out of the Bottle, by Alastair Crooke</title><link>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/the-genie-of-israeli-first-dominance-is-out-of-the-bottle/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/the-genie-of-israeli-first-dominance-is-out-of-the-bottle/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2025 04:02:36 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alastair Crooke]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=550346</guid><description><![CDATA[Netanyahu will soon find that Israel has lost America – and the rest of the world, too. ‘Gaza is on fire; the Jewish state will not relent’, Israeli Defence Minister Katz excitedly proclaims: “The IDF is striking with an Iron fist at terrorist infrastructure”. In fact, over recent weeks Israel has struck at ‘infrastructure’ in...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>184</slash:comments></item><item><title>Maintaining Escalatory Dominance: Trump and the Predominant Sway of ‘Israel Firsters’, by Alastair Crooke</title><link>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/maintaining-escalatory-dominance-trump-and-the-predominant-sway-of-israel-firsters/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/maintaining-escalatory-dominance-trump-and-the-predominant-sway-of-israel-firsters/#comments</comments><pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 04:00:38 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alastair Crooke]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=550169</guid><description><![CDATA[The strike on the Hamas negotiating team assembled in Doha marks the end to an entire era – and “a new reality” for Qatar. The strike on the Hamas negotiating team assembled in Doha to discuss the ‘Witkoff Gaza proposal’ is not just another ‘IDF operation’ to be passed over silently (as with the de-capitation...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>92</slash:comments></item><item><title>Can Trump Re-Adjust in the Post-Tianjin SCO Moment?, by Alastair Crooke</title><link>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/can-trump-re-adjust-in-the-post-tianjin-sco-moment-was-the-timing-of-china-throwing-down-the-sco-gauntlet-entirely-fortuitous/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/can-trump-re-adjust-in-the-post-tianjin-sco-moment-was-the-timing-of-china-throwing-down-the-sco-gauntlet-entirely-fortuitous/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alastair Crooke]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=549906</guid><description><![CDATA[Does Trump even enjoy the leeway from his unseen bonds to seize on nuclear détente as his Nobel Prize story, should he so choose? The gloves are off. The SCO Summit was a clear demonstration of the reality of power starkly coalescing, on the one hand, and one of power visibly ebbing, on the other....]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>71</slash:comments></item><item><title>Israel’s 'New, Violent Zionism' as a Harbinger of Imperial Geo-politics of Submission and Obedience, by Alastair Crooke</title><link>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/israels-new-violent-zionism-as-a-harbinger-of-imperial-geo-politics-of-submission-and-obedience/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/israels-new-violent-zionism-as-a-harbinger-of-imperial-geo-politics-of-submission-and-obedience/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:28 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alastair Crooke]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=549789</guid><description><![CDATA[For a Leviathan to function, it must remain rational and powerful. Israel’s strategy from past decades continues to rest on the hope of achieving some literal Chimeric transformative ‘de-radicalisation’ of both Palestinians and of the Region, writ large – a de-radicalisation that will make ‘Israel safe’. This has been the ‘holy grail’ objective for Zionists...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>161</slash:comments></item><item><title>Trump as ‘Myth’ Is Understood in Moscow. They Reciprocate, by Alastair Crooke</title><link>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/trump-as-myth-is-understood-in-moscow-they-reciprocate/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/trump-as-myth-is-understood-in-moscow-they-reciprocate/#comments</comments><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:39 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alastair Crooke]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=549602</guid><description><![CDATA[It seems that Putin has indeed succeeded in finding an exit out from the imposed western cordon sanitaire. Trump’s ascent to a portion of the ‘Mythic’ has become only too evident. As John Greer has observed: Trump the man, of course, is in no way mythic. He’s an elderly, slightly infirm, American real estate oligarch,...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>117</slash:comments></item><item><title>Russia Seeks to Comprehend Fully the Various Constraints on Trump, by Alastair Crooke</title><link>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/russia-seeks-to-comprehend-fully-the-various-constraints-on-trump/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/russia-seeks-to-comprehend-fully-the-various-constraints-on-trump/#comments</comments><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 04:10:59 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alastair Crooke]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=549261</guid><description><![CDATA[If Moscow previously relied on treaties and ‘playing normal’, now it relies on unpredictability, interconnected fronts, and a balance of threats. Another round of negotiations between Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and the Russian leadership? A meeting between Witkoff and President Putin is now imminent. At the same time, General Keith Kellogg has been in Kiev....]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>33</slash:comments></item><item><title>A Further U.S. Attack on Iran Would be Pointless Kabuki, by Alastair Crooke</title><link>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/a-further-u-s-attack-on-iran-would-be-pointless-kabuki/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/a-further-u-s-attack-on-iran-would-be-pointless-kabuki/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 04:00:07 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alastair Crooke]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=548931</guid><description><![CDATA[Escalation with Russia is clearly on the cards (in one form or another), but Trump has also threatened to attack Iran’s nuclear sites – again. A U.S. President, beset by the Epstein story that refuses to lie down and die, and under pressure from domestic hawks because of a visibly collapsing Ukraine, has been letting...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>130</slash:comments></item><item><title>Is the Trump 'Mystique' Broken? Does MAGA Sense Betrayal?, by Alastair Crooke</title><link>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/is-the-trump-mystique-broken-does-maga-sense-betrayal/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/is-the-trump-mystique-broken-does-maga-sense-betrayal/#comments</comments><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2025 04:05:50 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alastair Crooke]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=548733</guid><description><![CDATA[The Epstein cloud is metastasizing and becoming a rallying point for deep-seated popular alienation from certain ruling strata. The public begrudgingly has become resigned to accept that their ‘rulers’ routinely lie and steal, but nonetheless they (particularly within the MAGA faction) have dimly come to understand that there may be vice within the body public...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>266</slash:comments></item><item><title>U.S. Hubris-Driven Blunders Transform the Entire Complexion of the Wider War, by Alastair Crooke</title><link>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/u-s-hubris-driven-blunders-transform-the-entire-complexion-of-the-wider-war/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/u-s-hubris-driven-blunders-transform-the-entire-complexion-of-the-wider-war/#comments</comments><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 04:02:40 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alastair Crooke]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=548268</guid><description><![CDATA[Trump continues to be seized by the delusional view that his Israeli-centred vision could all be accomplished merely by ending the genocide in Gaza. The big issue emerging from the U.S.’ 22 June strike on Iran – second only to ‘wither Iran?’ – is whether in Trump’s calculus he can ‘rhetorically impose’ the having “obliterated”...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>98</slash:comments></item><item><title>'The Land of Performance': Trump Wanted a Perfect War, a Headline Showstopper, by Alastair Crooke</title><link>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/the-land-of-performance-trump-wanted-a-perfect-war-a-headline-showstopper/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/the-land-of-performance-trump-wanted-a-perfect-war-a-headline-showstopper/#comments</comments><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 04:00:45 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alastair Crooke]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=548053</guid><description><![CDATA[The big issue – second only to ‘what next in Iran’ and how they might respond — says Michael Wolff (who has written four books on Trump), is “how the MAGA is going to respond”: The signal from Hegseth (‘we are not at war with the Iranian people – just its nuclear programme’) clearly reflects...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>143</slash:comments></item><item><title>What Means 'Winning'?, by Alastair Crooke</title><link>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/what-means-winning/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/what-means-winning/#comments</comments><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 04:00:48 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alastair Crooke]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=547851</guid><description><![CDATA[The ‘long war’ to subvert Iran, weaken Russia, BRICS and China is on hold. It is not over. At one level, Iran plainly ‘won’. Trump had wanted to be regaled with a reality-TV style, splendid ‘Victory’. Sunday’s attack on the three nuclear sites indeed was loudly proclaimed by Trump and Hegseth as such – having...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>100</slash:comments></item><item><title>The Key Nuclear Allegation That Started the War Was Coaxed from a Palantir Counter-Intelligence Algorithm, by Alastair Crooke</title><link>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/the-key-nuclear-allegation-that-started-the-war-was-coaxed-from-a-palantir-counter-intelligence-algorithm/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/the-key-nuclear-allegation-that-started-the-war-was-coaxed-from-a-palantir-counter-intelligence-algorithm/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2025 04:05:29 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alastair Crooke]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=547571</guid><description><![CDATA[Trump sided with the Israelis, asserting that Iran was ‘very close’ to having a bomb, and added that he didn’t care what Gabbard thinks. The sudden claim of Iran being very close to a bomb (that seemingly jumped out of ‘nowhere’ to leave Americans puzzling how could it happen that – in the blink of...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>95</slash:comments></item><item><title>Is the Trump Project Unravelling?, by Alastair Crooke</title><link>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/is-the-trump-project-unravelling/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/is-the-trump-project-unravelling/#comments</comments><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2025 04:00:58 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alastair Crooke]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=547425</guid><description><![CDATA[Confidence is everything. And that ‘capital’ is being eroded rapidly. The Musk versus Trump fallout (at least for now) has a distinct ‘made for television’ quality to it. But do not be deceived by the entertainment content. The spat illustrates a fundamental contradiction at the heart of the MAGA coalition. It is quite possible that...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>119</slash:comments></item><item><title>The Silence of the Bears, by Alastair Crooke</title><link>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/the-silence-of-the-bears/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/the-silence-of-the-bears/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2025 04:00:39 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alastair Crooke]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=547166</guid><description><![CDATA[The silence of the bears will soon be ended and we will know more about Russian resolve. Russia’s leadership is in ‘conclave’ determining its riposte. Trump has been silent for two days. Unprecedented. In the last days, Ukraine and its facilitators attempted a massive attack on Russia’s strategic nuclear bomber-force; succeeded in collapsing two bridges...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>156</slash:comments></item><item><title>'One Quiet Early Morning in Beijing, the Dollar’s Crown Slipped', by Alastair Crooke</title><link>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/one-quiet-early-morning-in-beijing-the-dollars-crown-slipped/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/one-quiet-early-morning-in-beijing-the-dollars-crown-slipped/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 04:08:15 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alastair Crooke]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=546933</guid><description><![CDATA[Should China succeed, the U.S. would lose its ‘magic weapon’ of monetary dominance. So spoke the French historian and philosopher Emmanuel Todd in his April Moscow lecture, From Russia With Love. This American awareness of defeat, however, contrasts markedly with the Europeans’ surprising lack of awareness – rather it is denial – at their defeat:...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>95</slash:comments></item><item><title>A Storm in the West: The Liberal Intellectual Paradigm Is Broken, by Alastair Crooke</title><link>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/a-storm-in-the-west-the-liberal-intellectual-paradigm-is-broken/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/a-storm-in-the-west-the-liberal-intellectual-paradigm-is-broken/#comments</comments><pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2025 04:00:50 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alastair Crooke]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=546693</guid><description><![CDATA[Hector is tricked into combat and killed beneath Troy’s city walls. Trump might well heed the moral to The Iliad story. Presentation at the XXIII International Likhachev Scientific Readings, St Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Sciences, 22-23 May 2025 – Transforming the World: Problems and Prospects’, XXIII International Likhachev Scientific Readings, St Petersburg Last...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>113</slash:comments></item><item><title>'Transition' to a New World Order Is Beyond Most in the West, by Alastair Crooke</title><link>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/transition-to-a-new-world-order-is-beyond-most-in-the-west/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/transition-to-a-new-world-order-is-beyond-most-in-the-west/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 04:00:20 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alastair Crooke]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=546373</guid><description><![CDATA[The new era marks the end to ‘old politics’: The Red vs Blue; Right vs Left labels lose relevance. Even the need for transition – just to be clear – has only just begun to be recognised in the U.S. For the European leadership however, and for the beneficiaries of financialisation who haughtily lament Trump’s...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>142</slash:comments></item><item><title>Why Doesn’t the ‘Deal-Maker’ Close the Deal?, by Alastair Crooke</title><link>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/why-doesnt-the-deal-maker-close-the-deal/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/why-doesnt-the-deal-maker-close-the-deal/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 04:00:56 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alastair Crooke]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=546082</guid><description><![CDATA[This Trump transformation of America was intended to be rebuilt as America First. The story, both on Ukraine and Iran, is that President Trump wants a ‘deal’ – and both deals are available – yet he seems nonetheless to have boxed himself in. Trump presents his Administration as being something rougher, meaner, and far less...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>195</slash:comments></item><item><title>The Kellogg Framework Is a Disaster for Trump, by Alastair Crooke</title><link>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/the-kellogg-framework-is-a-disaster-for-trump/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/the-kellogg-framework-is-a-disaster-for-trump/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 04:00:40 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alastair Crooke]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=545942</guid><description><![CDATA[All of Kellogg’s underlying assumptions lacked any basis in reality. Yet Trump seemingly took them on trust. Political warfare in Washington is endemic. But the body count at the Pentagon has started to rise precipitously. Three of Secretary of Defence Hegseth’s top advisors were placed on leave, and then fired. The war continues, with the...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>173</slash:comments></item><item><title>A 'Trump Deal'? Juggling War, 'Easy War' and Negotiation, by Alastair Crooke</title><link>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/a-trump-deal-juggling-war-easy-war-and-negotiation/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/a-trump-deal-juggling-war-easy-war-and-negotiation/#comments</comments><pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 04:00:45 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alastair Crooke]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=545858</guid><description><![CDATA[The key MAGA issue is not foreign policy, but how to structurally re-balance an economic paradigm in danger of an extinction event. Trump clearly is in the midst of an existential conflict. He has a landslide mandate. But is ringed by a resolute domestic enemy front in the form of an ‘industrial concern’ infused with...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>140</slash:comments></item><item><title>Trump Axes a Stricken World Order – But There’s Opportunity Amidst the Turmoil, by Alastair Crooke</title><link>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/trump-axes-a-stricken-world-order-but-theres-opportunity-amidst-the-turmoil/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/trump-axes-a-stricken-world-order-but-theres-opportunity-amidst-the-turmoil/#comments</comments><pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2025 04:00:06 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alastair Crooke]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=545621</guid><description><![CDATA[Trump’s actions were neither ‘spur of the moment’, nor whimsical. The ‘tariff solution’ had been pre-prepared by his team over years. The Trump ‘shock’ – his ‘de-centring’ of America from serving as pivot to the post-war ‘order’ via the dollar – has triggered a deep cleavage between those who gained huge benefit from the status...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>134</slash:comments></item></channel></rss>