America the Guard and Turkey the Stooge

In crafting his foreign policy, Erdogan has let his most base instincts run amok and has cast a heavy stone into the muddy waters of Washington D.C. He waits for the effects of the stone with the bored confidence of someone who knows exactly where the ripples will go. Certain of the results, he is an expert on every aspect of vulnerability that he exploits. This, so that his American master might accept him when he knocks.

Propped up, he leads — or sort of leads — all the extremism he has fostered inside and outside the region. In the West, his image is that of a cowardly obstructionist who is now reaping what he has sown.

Under this banner were Erdogan’s conditions, which dominated the political conversation; even over the phone, Obama couldn’t succeed in digesting what Erdogan put forward as his requirements, which virtually left the Americans hamstrung. This is an exposed attempt to inflame the situation, to rig it to explode and push it to the brink of total collapse. Too much is piling onto American schemes that [fail] to swallow what Erdogan is serving. This shows the limits of their supposed anti-terror alliance.

Under that same banner, Turkey will continue its policy of supporting terror in a manner similar to America’s, but with different tools and with approaches that reflect Turkey’s situation — a situation that has been affected by the crises of all its neighbors, without exception. The reality of Turkish politics, from the beginning of regional turmoil until today, will also be reflected. Turkey played a significant and dangerous role in setting off that turmoil through collusion with different kinds of terrorist groups.

Turkey’s obstinacy has raised real questions about its problematic relationship with America and others. For starters, there is the issue of Turkey’s usefulness in the new order. Turkey was always searching everywhere for a way to reposition itself, in the NATO alliance and among the Western nations overall, in a manner appropriate to its political clout and strength. But in the last few years, after suffering from falling utility and chasing dreams that were doomed to fail from the beginning, Turkey and Erdogan have left the flock tweeting about improving their position with NATO and the West. At the same time, this kind of behavior is almost always idiotic.

Most dangerous is Erdogan’s request to define the terms of the conversation with respect to correcting maps. Erdogan is aware that this is not a mere crossing of red lines. It would set the region on fire, causing disruption in the Middle East and throughout the world. Even though it might step on America or the West’s toes, these powers still want to re-impose the existing regional order, and for the expected modifications to be agreeable with the language of greed, in harmony with the vocabulary of domination and perfectly matching Israeli desires, needs and interests, above all else.

Turkey’s desired actions reveal its ambitions, as well as its severed borders and its discord with American calculations. The aspects of these professed disagreements are, in the end, another chapter in Washington’s bedtime story about fighting terrorism, which became the tip of the entire Western world’s spear in its mission to redraw the regional map. But the plan slipped out of America and the West’s control; it suffered due to an overabundance of financial and military support from the region and the West.

The conflict comes from the fact that Turkey, with its idiotic policies, arrogant president and pig-headed prime minister, have rigged the region to explode. This was done, despite Washington, to mitigate the peculiarity in Turkish policy. Turkey’s disgusting overreach continues to threaten peace and security of the region and the world, behavior which is subject to international accountability according to the United Nations’ charter.

If America’s defense of Turkish policy is the main thing that prevents some degree of accountability, then this, at the very least, requires the international community to take a clear position and point out the simple fact that Turkey is a rogue state outside the bounds of international law, and a direct threat to international peace.