Alastair Crooke

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The Chris Hedges Report · Is the Ceasefire Dead? (w/ Alastair Crooke) | The Chris Hedges Report · 9 Jun 2026 podcast

But this has been seen.

I know the Russians have seen it and the Chinese see it.

And does it worry me?

Yes and no.

Why it doesn't worry me so much is because I think we in the West, including America but including Europe, are going to go through a period of catharsis.

We have to go through a period which might be quite tumultuous.

But, you know, the old...

has gone past its sell-by date, the old structures, the old systems.

And we need an element of creative destruction, possibly, to try and think, because there are too many contradictions.

Contradictions in the economic structure, the binary economic system, massive easy wealth for a small elite, the ordinary Americans and Europeans

struggle to surviving.

I mean, those are structures, contradictory structures.

You know, you can't, no party can come in tomorrow and say, oh no, this is going to be the solution and we can resolve all that.

You know, and the parties, certainly in Europe, are all Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

So ordinary Europeans just don't have any real trust in that

So if this is what we might be facing, I think this will be partly destructive.

I mean, it will be, as it goes into a process of catharsis, I think, you know...

dangerous emanations will take part.

It's like a sort of exploding star, and you have particles and energy sort of being thrown off by it, which worry Russia and China considerably.

So I think in one respect,

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