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Jan 15 2025 
Trump, Iran and the Obama strategic blueprint
In acts of wanton destruction, Netanyahu destroyed the prevailing status quo, which he saw as an American straitjacket
By Alastair Crooke and first posted at Strategic Culture
Like a smashed antique clock – with its elaborate cogs, ratchet wheels and innards splayed out from the casing – so the mechanics of the Middle East lie similarly exposed… Continue reading
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Dec 11 2024 
Why did Assad say No?
Alastair Crooke and Chris Hedges. Many of the remaining questions are answered.
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Dec 06 2024 
Erdogan’s Idlib shock shadows “Kursk”
By Alastair Crooke and first posted at Strategic Culture
Companion Reading: An article referred to by Alastair from Professor Sergei Karaganov titled Reflections on the Path to Victory
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To seek a deal on Ukraine is to treat the symptom and to ignore a cure, Alastair Crooke writes.
‘Doomsters’ is an occasional Russian expression used to categorise… Continue reading
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Dec 02 2024 
The Long War to reaffirm Western and Israeli primacy undergoes a shape-shift
The Middle East is ‘conservative’ no more. Rather, a very different ‘Awakening’ is gestating.
By Alastair Crooke and first posted at Strategic Culture
The long war to reaffirm western and Israeli primacy is undergoing a shape-shift. On one front, the calculus in respect to Russia and the Ukraine war has shifted. And in the Middle East, the… Continue reading
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Sep 29 2024 
Israel-Hezbollah War Escalates
This is a valuable interview with Alastair Crooke by Larry Johnson.
They discuss:
Ideological roots of Benjamin Netanyahu
History of Hezbollah
Potential Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon*Note this interview was recorded shortly before the reported assassination of Hezbollah leader Nasrallah
This is a long video: If you want to directly go to the issues… Continue reading
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Aug 27 2024 
The New Western Crusade: Extremism
“..the genuine terrorists have finally been named and an actual war against terrorism will now be mounted to rid the world of that extremism – the Manichean eschatology of the Good Versus Evil at the core of the Western Narrative.”
with appreciation to Dr. Karl at karlof1’s Geopolitical Gymnasium.
Let’s take a cursory look at the narratives… Continue reading
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Aug 05 2024 
Iran: The West wants War
The messianic madmen remain hellbent on raising their Moshiach. And what did Russia lend to the Iranians?
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Jun 11 2024 
Israel and the Misjudgement of Reality
The hard truth is that the Resistance has understood the reality of the situation better than their western counterparts.
Alastair Crooke and first posted on Strategic Culture.
On all fronts, the Israeli internal paradigm is fracturing; and externally, the West is itself fissuring, and becoming a pariah on the global stage. The western leaderships’ explicit… Continue reading
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Mar 17 2024 
Karl’s Twist of the Fabric
Dr. Karl extends the thoughts of Crooke and Todd using American history. Well done. The rejection of the Global Majority of the West’s post-Christian ideas is manifest. There will be a change of elites.
with thanks to Karl at karlof1’s Geopolitical Gymnasium.
Growing out of Alastair Crooke’s talk at the Night Falls Conference: Night Falls in the Evening… Continue reading
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Jan 16 2024 
Karlof1: Resistance Axis coordinates to impose Ceasefire in Gaza and lift the Siege
Thanks to Karl at karlof1’s Geopolitical Gymnasium
One of the main points made by Pro-Resistance analysts as well as those who’re genuinely neutral is the degree of predictability regarding the Zionist and Outlaw US Empire/NATO responses to Al-Aqsa Flood, thus the Axis-of-Resistance as they call themselves can react appropriately as they know their opponents’s chess moves… Continue reading
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Dec 07 2023 
The Great Schism – Will It Be Quietly Ignored?
We must re-configure our thinking – onto the longer plane – to take account of the intrusion of shifting dimensions in consciousness.
by Alastair Crooke and first posted at Strategic CultureDominique De Villepin, former Prime Minister of France, who famously led France’s opposition to the Iraq war, recently described the term ‘Occidentalism’ (currently the prevalent… Continue reading
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Nov 29 2023 
Is Israel Losing? The thruth aout Gaza’s truce with Alastair Crooke
Comment that came in with a kind recommendation to post this.
Alastair was allowed to provide a comprehensive overview of the context in which the current events ought to be approached.
Danny is a polite host, who is not “driving the guests”, but allows them to elaborate on their thoughts and messages without interruptions. And… Continue reading
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Nov 28 2023 
The Magician’s Hat, and the Great Simulacrum of Palliative Balm
The present hostage exchange is centred on Gaza. However, Israel has three fronts of hot conflict open.
By Alastair Crooke and first posted at Strategic Culture
The Magician steps onto the stage, his black cloak swirling about him. Centre stage, he flourishes his hat: It is empty. He punches it lightly to demonstrate its solidity. The Magician… Continue reading
