CALIBAN

Alastaire Crooke is a:

"...former British diplomat, and is the founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum, an organisation that advocates for engagement between political Islam and the West.[1] Previously he was a ranking figure in both British intelligence (MI6) and European Union diplomacy."

I suggest you savour his article, entitled The Most Egregious Mistake, in its entirety. Here is the gist:

"The point here is that Russian Resilience, at a single stroke, shattered the plate-glass floor to western convictions about its ability to ‘manage the world’. After the several western debacles centred on regime-change by military shock-and-awe, even hardened neo-cons – by 2006 – had conceded that a weaponised financial system was the only means to ‘secure the Empire’. But this conviction has now been upended – and states around the world have taken notice."

Bis interimitur qui suis armis perit!

Labels: Anti-War, US imperialism