Alastair Crooke
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2 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 9 Jun
Alastair Crooke’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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economic um the economic sphere of wall street um and to try and to move to a different economy in the gulf area
And also, by insisting on one, it is trying, if you like, to change the whole basis and the whole geopolitical sit-siting of Iran, and for it to come back as a major geopolitical power in the region.
That's it, essentially.
Yes, exactly.
And this is why, I mean, you know, what is happening in Iran and with Hormuz,
portals a big ship in the global path because already we saw see you know signs of this taking place the their demand that every ship past has got to confirm that it is its cargo is paid for in one and we're seeing consequentially russia has already announced that in future any sales
any purchases of russian oil or gas or products by europe will have to be in one uh from now on that's it then you've seen a big european bank deutsche bank now stopping um if you like the issuance so much of their their debts in dollars and are issuing pendables that is
based in either the digital remembering or the ordinary remembering, and was a huge success.
People have been, it's been oversubscribed, people coming back and taking this.
So what they're doing is actually, if you like, in a small way, but they're trying to capitalize an economic shift
away from the very leveraged, financialized economic world.
which incidentally has been so damaging to America and Europe too, because it's prioritized the financialized world at the expense of the real economy and real jobs.
And it's all about trading and making money by trading or something else.
but it isn't from making goods.
No one does that now.
Not enough money in it.
You can make more money in an hour on the stock markets trading across futures markets and other things.
So it's also part of, if you like, that greater project that the
Chinese and Russians are engaged in, of going back to much more self-sufficient economies that are not just based on financialized products and dealings, but actually produce things for people, produce things for people, and therefore contain salaries to people.
And they think this is what they need to move towards, and they want to change the Gulf in that direction.
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