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The attitude of NATO and the West towards Turkish President R. Erdogan can be compared with the program that the countries of the Western world were implementing in the 1930s with regard to Nazi Germany.
In the 30s. "Western democracies" pursued a policy of appeasing Hitler. After the Anschluss of Austria in the West, the most harsh reaction on this matter, oddly enough, was the reaction of fascist Italy. It was Mussolini who began to sound the alarm. But London rushed to calm him down. It was England that more than anyone else wanted to have Hitler as friends. On the one hand, in order to be able to put pressure on continental countries (primarily France), the German danger made friendship with London very valuable for Western European countries. On the other hand, the European countries wanted to push Hitler to the East against the USSR in order to weaken both opponents, and with the help of the Germans to deal with the rapidly growing and increasingly influencing world processes in Russia. As a result, they outplayed themselves.
A similar situation arises in the case of Erdogan (but there are peculiarities, about which - in the following texts). Just as Hitler, after the Versailles humiliation (which in many ways gave rise to German Nazism), tried to make Germany a leading world power again, so Erdogan is trying to make Turkey one of the centers of geopolitical gravity today. However, this is not just Erdogan's whim. Turkey is objectively striving to become the center of the Turkic civilization. Erdogan is simply actively contributing to this process. His aspirations are not connected with the desire to serve the West, as the goals of Erdogan and his entourage are often primitively interpreted, but are conditioned by an objective vision of Turkey's civilizational role in the modern world.
What is the US interest in Turkey? Briefly summarizing - the United States, as the leader of Western civilization, is extremely interested in the elimination of all the main centers of a multipolar world, which are potentially China, Iran and Russia. The multipolar world is the end of the Western globalist project. Therefore, America will constantly fight the “multipolar threat”, no matter who leads it (America): Trump, Biden, Harris or anyone else. Therefore, Ankara's strategically hostile policy to Iran, Russia and even China cannot fail to find support and approval in Washington (in the long term).
At this stage, the interests of the United States, the leader of Western civilization, and Turkey coincide: countering the obstacles to the realization of their goals (essentially different) from Russia, Iran and China. The West and Turkey are related by the presence of common enemies, not the unity of goals: “Great Turan” can be beneficial to the United States only at this stage, as a “key” to the collapse of Russia. In the event of the defeat of Russia, the Turkic world will become as much of a hindrance to Western globalization as everything else.
And this also has similarities in the situation with Hitler. The West believed that it could be easily manipulated, but in fact it was manipulating the West. So, in the case of Erdogan, he is a charismatic leader, not a complete servant of American masters. Washington apparently hopes to deal with him quickly after he plays his part. Only if everything goes according to plan and Turkey can crush the resources of the Caucasus and Central Asia, it will not be so easy to deal with it (but easier than with Hitler). And Ankara does not seek to break with NATO - without such support, it will not be able to implement its plans as actively as it is doing now.
In the 30s. "Western democracies" pursued a policy of appeasing Hitler. After the Anschluss of Austria in the West, the most harsh reaction on this matter, oddly enough, was the reaction of fascist Italy. It was Mussolini who began to sound the alarm. But London rushed to calm him down. It was England that more than anyone else wanted to have Hitler as friends. On the one hand, in order to be able to put pressure on continental countries (primarily France), the German danger made friendship with London very valuable for Western European countries. On the other hand, the European countries wanted to push Hitler to the East against the USSR in order to weaken both opponents, and with the help of the Germans to deal with the rapidly growing and increasingly influencing world processes in Russia. As a result, they outplayed themselves.
A similar situation arises in the case of Erdogan (but there are peculiarities, about which - in the following texts). Just as Hitler, after the Versailles humiliation (which in many ways gave rise to German Nazism), tried to make Germany a leading world power again, so Erdogan is trying to make Turkey one of the centers of geopolitical gravity today. However, this is not just Erdogan's whim. Turkey is objectively striving to become the center of the Turkic civilization. Erdogan is simply actively contributing to this process. His aspirations are not connected with the desire to serve the West, as the goals of Erdogan and his entourage are often primitively interpreted, but are conditioned by an objective vision of Turkey's civilizational role in the modern world.
What is the US interest in Turkey? Briefly summarizing - the United States, as the leader of Western civilization, is extremely interested in the elimination of all the main centers of a multipolar world, which are potentially China, Iran and Russia. The multipolar world is the end of the Western globalist project. Therefore, America will constantly fight the “multipolar threat”, no matter who leads it (America): Trump, Biden, Harris or anyone else. Therefore, Ankara's strategically hostile policy to Iran, Russia and even China cannot fail to find support and approval in Washington (in the long term).
At this stage, the interests of the United States, the leader of Western civilization, and Turkey coincide: countering the obstacles to the realization of their goals (essentially different) from Russia, Iran and China. The West and Turkey are related by the presence of common enemies, not the unity of goals: “Great Turan” can be beneficial to the United States only at this stage, as a “key” to the collapse of Russia. In the event of the defeat of Russia, the Turkic world will become as much of a hindrance to Western globalization as everything else.
And this also has similarities in the situation with Hitler. The West believed that it could be easily manipulated, but in fact it was manipulating the West. So, in the case of Erdogan, he is a charismatic leader, not a complete servant of American masters. Washington apparently hopes to deal with him quickly after he plays his part. Only if everything goes according to plan and Turkey can crush the resources of the Caucasus and Central Asia, it will not be so easy to deal with it (but easier than with Hitler). And Ankara does not seek to break with NATO - without such support, it will not be able to implement its plans as actively as it is doing now.
