The US is not an ally, it is an adversary

Whether it is pushing Ukraine to the front against Russia, supporting Israel’s brutality in Gaza, or bombing Yemen, in all three cases, alongside other justifications, the calculations the US makes regarding energy resources and routes have an impact. This is because energy competition is a very sharp competition. It is closely related to geopolitical competition. There is a direct link between energy demand and economic development. 

When the shift of the world’s economic, and therefore political, weight from west to east, from the Atlantic to Eurasia and the Pacific, is considered along with the eroding hegemony of the US, it would not be an exaggerated or pessimistic stance to say that tensions will increase even further in the coming years. Because since the 19th century, great powers that have competed fiercely to dominate energy resources never abandon the power struggle because they “love” concepts such as “human rights,” “rule of law,” “freedoms,” “civil society,” and “democracy.” On the contrary, the dirty and bloody record of the US in this field, which uses these concepts as excuses for its attacks and occupations, is known to everyone. The US is the last state in the world that should talk about human rights, freedom, and peace. 

Let us not forget, the US revealed with the Carter Doctrine that it would resort to arms if necessary for the control of the Persian Gulf. Neither the Greater Middle East Project (GMEP, later renamed GOKAP), nor the Gulf Crisis, nor the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq, nor the onslaught on Syria, nor the threats against Iran are independent of energy competition. Concepts such as “failed states,” “preemptive strike doctrine,” “asymmetric warfare,” and “controllable instability,” all of which originate from the US, cannot be explained without taking energy competition into account. 

As the US’s attacks and occupations toward our region have increased, Turkey’s problems have also increased. Since the US has provided all kinds of support to terrorist organizations such as PKK, PYD, YPG, FETÖ, and ISIS, Turkey’s security concerns have also multiplied. Once, Turkey, which defended the territorial integrity of Iraq, described this as its red line, and declared the establishment of a Kurdish state in Iraq as a casus belli (cause for war), compromised on this policy and began to support Barzani in northern Iraq with all its means, taking him as an interlocutor and trading with him. Thus, it has made a great contribution to the de facto division of Iraq and the step-by-step state-building of the regional administration in the north of the country. This wrong policy is undoubtedly one of the biggest reasons for the security problems originating from Iraq that we are experiencing today.

Turkey has also quickly forgotten the sack placed over the heads of its soldiers in Sulaymaniyah, northern Iraq, on July 4, 2003. In these days when our hearts are pained by news of martyrs, remembering that event is also useful in determining that the US is not a friend, but an enemy.