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Yet Another Financialised Peace Initiative from the Witkoff-Kushner Stable, by Alastair Crooke

Instead of prioritizing stakeholder profit, the Witkoff-Europe combo should address Eurasian security architecture and NATO-Russia-China frontiers to gain traction in Moscow. Back in December 2025, U.S. commentator Sundance, writing in the Conservative Treehouse, wrote about Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner’s new ‘Money Diplomacy’ solution for Ukraine that “require[d] [the establishment of] a system whereby the...
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The 'War of Grand Design' Transforms to More Narrowly Bolster US Hegemony, by Alastair Crooke

To preserve its supremacy, Washington is pushing Europe to the front line against Russia, even at the risk of nuclear escalation The paradigm shifts. The networked supra-national stratum that long has pursued its global ‘grand design’ through manufacturing public consent for wars of imposed compliance has, at last, run up against the limits to power....
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Mohammed Bin Salman Is More at Risk Internally Than from AnsarAllah Attacks, by Alastair Crooke

Disgruntled tribes, a sidelined clergy, an army divided by design. While Houthi missiles hit Riyadh, the crown prince’s power grab may prove his undoing. As part of its ‘blockade-for-blockade’, ‘airport-for-airport’ strategy, Ansarallah carried out a third attack on Riyadh International Airport on Saturday — 12 people (mostly civilians) were killed and more than 300 injured....
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Ansar Allah’s Unperceived Advantages Against Saudi Arabia, by Alastair Crooke

Geography, Yemen’s Revolutionary Inheritance, Saudi Internal Factionalism and its Contested Islamic Credentials Are Yemen’s Trump Cards Ansar Allalah [Houthis] enjoys many perhaps unperceived advantages in its conflict against the ‘wealthy', westernised Saudi Kingdom. This is a war recently rekindled by Saudi’s September rupture of the 2022 Truce, when it bombed Sanaa’s international airport in July...
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