Alastair Crooke

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Alastair Crooke

Director of Conflicts Forum, a small geo-political and geo-financial consultancy, and adviser to a number of larger geo-financial entities. He was formerly advisor on Middle East issues to Javier Solana, the EU Foreign Policy Chief. He has worked in the region for 35 years, including managing a number of ceasefires in the Occupied Territories on behalf of the European Union and working on a number of hostage cases.

11.08.2020

Was ‘Beirut’ a Botched Act of Deterrence?

Most Lebanese do want reform – their anger is real and justified. But the price of western-led ‘IMF-reforms’ – austerity, higher taxes, the end to subsidies, and the expulsion of Hizbullah from all positions of responsibility – will amount to a cost impossible for any government to bear – with some 44% of the Lebanese population slipping towards the poverty level. Equally, most, of course, will not accept to be placed under a new colonial mandate. What happens next?

Alastair Crooke