Even the American conservatives who founded it have realized this, but European liberal democrats still haven’t. Because:
(a) NATO protected them from each other as much as it protected them from the Soviets;
(b) For 40 years against the Soviets and for 25 years against Russia, they have been ensuring their security on the back of the US and spending the money they save on their own social welfare.
The US, while being the richest country in the world, is facing incredible inflation and is even laying off employees in the most vital positions, from air security officers to the intelligence agency, from the army to forest firefighting teams. We laugh at Elon Musk’s antics as if they were in comedy shows, but the American federal budget deficit will be $2 trillion this year. (Just to illustrate the magnitude of the figure, let’s mention that this is more than Turkey’s annual government spending.) … In the last three weeks, nearly 150,000 federal employees have been laid off in the US; the state
Maybe Trump is playing the role of a “madman” (the kind we say ‘He’s crazy, he can do anything’), as some say. Some think he’s really angry. Some even say that Trump has a psychological problem of “completely losing his moral compass.”
So, what are we going to say to this?
Trump’s National Security Advisor Mike Waltz (we remember him from his statement last week that “American troops will continue to stay in Syria”) says that he told Zelensky, “You need to leave the White House after this discussion,” and continues:
“Secretary of State Rubio and other senior officials unanimously told the President that we could not see any possibility of progress in the negotiations after that insult.”
Upon this, Trump gives Waltz the task of “telling Zelensky that he is no longer wanted in the White House.” Waltz doesn’t stop there and says that Zelensky still doesn’t understand what’s going on, “The Ukrainian Ambassador… I don’t know if there is a Russian equivalent of the famous idiom “dance with joy.” But I’m sure Putin and his team would be right to kiss Trump’s hand, who rejected the “encirclement by NATO” strategy and put an end to the US State Department and Defense Departments’ global map engineering.
The US, which has turned the 21st century into a battlefield from day one, with NeoCons on one side and globalist liberals on the other, seems to have finally realized that the only competition that should be done in our age is in the fields of production, education, space research – and maybe a little trade.
I finished this last sentence as “…has realized”; but then I deleted it and replaced it with “…seems to have realized,” which, in the words of the ancients, leaves the contemplation box open. Because although he seems to have dedicated his life to politics, we are not facing a president, but a very wealthy person whose mental state changes frequently. However, Trump is not like Elon Musk, who is in the game industry, not information, science, or research… Eight years ago, before the 2016 presidential elections, the son of a poor farmer who joined the Iraq war as a marine after high school and managed to go to Yale University on a scholarship given to combat soldiers and become a lawyer, emerged on the Ohio political scene and chose presidential candidate, New York businessman Donald Trump, as his target. He starts talking, saying “Trump is the Hitler of our time…” and doesn’t leave out his stupidity, his addiction to prostitution, or the women he silenced with money after raping them.
This promising young senator candidate was none other than James Donald Bowman by his first name, James David Hamel by his second name, and J.D. Vance by his current name. That is, J.D. Vance, with whom Trump ran as a vice-presidential candidate. That is, in Paris, he accused the French President, and at the Munich Security Conference, all European leaders, of giving false information to their people, spreading disinformation, and violating the people’s freedom of expression… A madman threw a stone into a well, and 40 wise men couldn’t get it out! Exactly that! On Monday, while saying, “The concept of ‘the West’ collapsed in a week; let’s see what the Europeans will do?” we witnessed America sitting at the table with Russia without Europe in the last 4 days! European leaders had to cling to Macron’s rope – who even the French are surprised is still president – to save their ruined reputations. European leaders will pay a heavy price for the war in Ukraine, which would have been over long ago if they had not prevented the signing of the Istanbul Agreement two years ago.
European voters will give the heaviest punishment to the European leaders who dissuaded Ukraine’s unfortunate leader Zelensky from signing the Istanbul Agreement at the last moment, for making them bear the financial burden of aid to Ukraine and for forcing them to spend the last three winters shivering in the cold because Ukraine’s natural gas was cut off. Trump, who considers Trump a natural ally, is a new fascist, extreme Christian, ultra-nationalist, foreigner… Trump came, and he came big! The British broadcaster BBC says, “There is no consensus left!” According to Putin’s foreign policy advisor Aleksandr Dugin, the Western unity that started in 1945 when Hitler was defeated and entered a new phase in 1991 when the Soviet Union was destroyed, disappeared with Trump, with Putin’s 90-minute phone call!
Let’s be realistic: Can Trump and Putin abolish the “Rules-Based International Order” and establish a new order in its place, which they will structure through Russia-US talks? Everyone who supports the Realist International Relations Theory can answer this question positively. Everyone who really uses this realist lens could see that the “rules-based” order had already lost its place.
In fact, until the collapse of the Soviet Union, the “basic” rule was nothing more than the answer to the question “Whose side are you on?”: Are you on the side of the US, which defends the free world order, and its various regional defense alliances such as NATO? Not them… Not them, us… That is, not Biden and his Neocons, but us and our Zionists; not European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and her bureaucrats, but our bureaucrats; that is, the bureaucrats of the 6 European far-right parties who gathered in Madrid last week to express their support for Trump will tell the whole world how to think…
Looking at their condemnation of “deep state” structures in their countries and their exposure of “funding” activities carried out by secret organizations, the American government organization United States Agency for International Development (USAID), or American investor George Soros’ Open Society foundations in almost every part of the world, one should not think that either Trump or his European friends are democratic leaders different from Biden and Leyen.
Trump and his European partners also have their own “deep states” and their own bureaucrats. Didn’t USAID exist during the 4 years that Trump was in office before the Biden administration? Ursula von der, who is the current prime minister of Europe… The new world order was called “rules-based relations”; countries behaved according to these rules if they did not want to be considered “excluded, lower class, pariah countries.” However, this cluster of relations has become so intertwined and mixed up that this exclusion cannot be accompanied by a real act of abandonment or a discourse of humiliation; the countries got away with what they did. Even the condemnations were a matter of avoiding the ban…. The rules-based order and norms were not working properly even before Trump. There seems to be such an order as long as it suits the US and the West. When it doesn’t, those who set the rules find a discreet way to circumvent the rules, and supposedly the rules are not broken. Now, Trump has removed this “behaving discreetly” etiquette; he has also rejected the effort to attach a handle that saves appearances.
The opposite of a rules-based relationship is the order we call “the law of the jungle.” With this trend, Trump is not bluffing; he is raising the stakes in the negotiation.
Source: https://www.milliyet.com.tr/yazarlar/hakki-ocal/
