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19/12/2018 Article

America’s Technology and Sanctions War Will End, by Bifurcating the Global Economy

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Alastair Crooke, Strategic Culture Foundation, 18 Dec 2018 “The true reason behind the US-China ‘trade’ war has little to do with actual trade … What

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10/08/2016 Article

“God’s Gift”: The purge and counter-coup in Turkey

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Conflicts Forum Comment, 22 July 2016  (This piece was published by Consortium News on 21 July 2016 – see here). “God’s Gift”, the words used

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04/05/2016 Article

Tu quoque, Brute, fili mi! (And you too, Brutus, my son!)

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Conflicts Forum Weekly Comment, 22 April 2016 “Fall, Caesar, fall”. Caesar (Obama) has yet a few months before, finally, he ‘falls’; but the knives are unsheathed,

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04/05/2016 Article

The Foreign Policy of Monetary Policy and its Implications

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Conflicts Forum Weekly Comment, 15 April 2016  It is now fairly common currency that US conventional foreign policy is conflicted, and lacks strategic coherence. This

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04/05/2016 Article

The Russians are Preparing for a (Defensive) Big War, both Conventional and Hybrid

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Prospect of an intense hybrid war, with Russia as its target. The type of financial warfare is nothing new. Alastair Crooke, Valdai Discussion Club, 22

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31/03/2016 Article

The US Treasury’s ‘Silver Bullet’ Falls Short

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Alastair Crooke, Conflicts Forum, 31 March 2016 “The Americans did not act on what they promised in the nuclear accord (the JCPOA); they did not

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31/03/2016 Article

Putin and the Art of Listening

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Alastair Crooke, Valdai Discussion Club, 30 March 2016 Lessons learned from Russia’s experience in Ukraine are being applied to Syria – including the importance of

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31/03/2016 Article

Russia Isn’t Really Withdrawing From Syria

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Alastair Crooke, The World Post/ Huffington Post, 17 march 2016 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alastair-crooke/russia-withdraw-syria_b_9487262.html BEIRUT — Russian President Vladimir Putin caught nearly everyone by surprise with his Syria

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31/03/2016 Article

‘Revanchism’ and the Shaping of Geopolitics

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Conflicts Forum Weekly Comment, 11 March 2016 In a certain sense, geopolitics seems to have become pulled directly into the crucible of the Middle East.

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31/03/2016 Article

Military progress in Syria and its Wider Political Consequences: Reality and the Price of Prejudice

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Alastair Crooke, Valdai Discussion Club, 29 Feb 2016 http://valdaiclub.com/news/military-progress-in-syria-and-its-wider-political-consequences-reality-and-the-price-of-prejudice/ President Obama is cornered: He faces a decision that, whatever course he opts to pursue, he

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