As Russia edges closer to defeating the US-NATO backed Ukrainian military and its neo-Nazi battalions, a new war in the Middle East will take center stage, perhaps a repeat of the 2006 Lebanon War that Israel started, which will lead to a wider war with Syria and Iran. The Times of Israel published ‘In Cyprus,…
Today, Iran is demonised as an intolerable threat to western global Order. But it was not always thus, Alastair Crooke writes. The Structural scaffolding was first put into place in the early 1990s. But that structure was erected on false premises and lazy misconceptions. Its flaws, however, were papered over for nearly two decades; but…
“I have a dream. I have a dream that freedom from NATO will ring from the Ural Mountains of Russia to the Bavarian Alps, from every hill and molehill of Ukraine and Poland,” Declan Hayes writes. Lord Alfred Ponsonby‘s dictum that “When war is declared, truth is the first casualty”, remains as true today as…
The Middle East media have not stopped commenting on recent developments in Ukraine through the prism of their perception in the region. Particular attention is paid to the topic of the sanctions imposed on Moscow and their resonance in the Arab world. As can be seen, attitudes towards these measures are negative in the region….
For several decades, US policy in the Middle East has been depended on the cooperation of the Gulf states, headed by Saudi Arabia, and on Israel, Egypt, and Turkey. However, since the Obama administration, relations between Washington and the main regional powers have become increasingly strained. Primarily due to the substitution by the United States…
Russia’s anger at Israel could have far-reaching consequences The conclusion I came to after a brief visit to Beirut last week, during which I met a variety of contacts from across the political spectrum, is that the region is heading rapidly towards war. It is all but unavoidable. Syria is under siege, Lebanon is bankrupt,…
