 On 12 December 2019, The Globe and Mail published a lengthy opinion piece written by Alexander in which he admitted that for most of his time in Afghanistan, he knew that Western strategy "was wrong" in that it did not focus on Pakistan's military support for the Taliban as the root cause of the conflict.Alexander became president of Red Mountain Energy Corp. in August 2010.Red Mountain founder Denis Smyslov met him in the early 1990s while Alexander was stationed at the Canadian embassy in Moscow.