Iran & Ukraine Showdown Coming | Alastair Crooke
With Pascal Lotaz at Neutrality Studies
Former British diplomat Alastair Crooke joins Pascal to examine negotiations over Ukraine and the emerging debate about Eurasian security. Crooke argues that Europe misunderstands Russia’s red lines and risks dangerous escalation. They discuss Iran, Israeli domestic politics, American power structures, and China’s response to technological containment. The conversation connects regional conflicts with competition over the international order, while exploring economic fragility and the limits of prediction. Crooke also explains where viewers can find his analysis through Conflicts Forum’s Substack.
Highly recommended, and thanks for posting. This was an hour well spent. If not worried already: you should, after absorbing Alastair Crookes insights. Just a thought. What puzzles me, is that it is hard to imagine that Alastair Crooke is the only sane mind around in Europe (to start with).… Read more »
Well there is more than one way to recognize “malfunctioning” people, For the sake of brevity I will refer to the Islamic perspective; “God hardens their hearts.” Rather than incompetence is it not more a choice for evil stemming from hardened hearts? I feel it is mistake to simply say… Read more »
“…and Europeans have been running that game for a very long time. “Incompetence” does not really satisfy me and makes me want to dig deeper into causality. But that is just me.” Quite right Snowy. The competency comes from the financial infrastructure that has been implemented and refined over centuries,… Read more »
Steve: That was masterful. You said it better than I could. Thanks.
Snow
Snowy, it just occurred to me as I was reading your reply, that the mental illness born of ignorance was on stark display recently when Vance or Rubio, (can’t remember which) was in Europe giving them a pep-talk to revive the era of European (white) dominance with a re-run of… Read more »