Trump and the Middle East
Over the last 20 years, we have read numerous analyses about the nation-state's decline in the face of globalization. It was demonstrated by the European Union project, the common currency overcoming the common national identity, and the regression of nationalist tendencies.
Francis Fukuyama, a functional academic, contended that liberalism proved its supremacy over all the other ideologies in the world and every country would progress in that direction, claiming that we have come to "the end of history." Now we can see that he was wrong.
Britain has departed the EU project, France has become more and more introverted, and the EU has come to the threshold of dissolution, becoming paralyzed in its own bureaucratic cage. No one said anything while Russia invaded Europe. China has become the unstoppable star of the world economy. And the "unpredictable man"in Turkey could not be overthrown with economic, judicial or military coups.
On top of all that, now a person who was strictly opposed by the media and political elites is preparing to be the new American president. The Republican Party elites were also defeated by Trump, when you consider that the main figures of the Republican establishment, including the Bush family, also jumped on the anti-Trump bandwagon in the last month of the electoral campaign.
Even before his inauguration, many articles presenting Trump as "the leader ending the liberal world order" have been published. Of course, the liberal order mentioned here must refer to the global nomenclature and its hegemony, which have the power to intervene in economic and political developments through certain institutions.
We know that U.S. presidents that represented the liberal world advocated coups across the world and engaged in all kinds of unlawful activities outside the U.S. while representing the U.S. as a state of law. This is exactly one of the reasons why the masses disrupted liberal hypocrisy.
Some analysts are trying to spread fear by arguing that Trump gets on well with Russia and this fact will make it harder for the Syrian opposition. However, Russia has been the hegemonic power in that field for a long while. Aleppo has been bombed by Russia for months now. Besides, during Barack Obama's term in office, the U.S. already turned into a scapegoat in the face of Russia, both in Ukraine and Syria.
So, the election of Trump, who promises to subvert both the American and global status quo, was not met with fear in the Middle East. On the contrary, they are rather pleased because they are finished with the Obama government, which caused the expansion of Iran and pursued policies in line with various terrorist groups including the Hashd al-Shaabi (People›s Mobilization Forces), the PKK and Hezbollah instead of with its allies in the region.
Therefore, the man who will take over the presidential office on Jan. 20 is not a greater disappointment than Obama is now.
Francis Fukuyama, a functional academic, contended that liberalism proved its supremacy over all the other ideologies in the world and every country would progress in that direction, claiming that we have come to "the end of history." Now we can see that he was wrong.
Britain has departed the EU project, France has become more and more introverted, and the EU has come to the threshold of dissolution, becoming paralyzed in its own bureaucratic cage. No one said anything while Russia invaded Europe. China has become the unstoppable star of the world economy. And the "unpredictable man"in Turkey could not be overthrown with economic, judicial or military coups.
On top of all that, now a person who was strictly opposed by the media and political elites is preparing to be the new American president. The Republican Party elites were also defeated by Trump, when you consider that the main figures of the Republican establishment, including the Bush family, also jumped on the anti-Trump bandwagon in the last month of the electoral campaign.
Even before his inauguration, many articles presenting Trump as "the leader ending the liberal world order" have been published. Of course, the liberal order mentioned here must refer to the global nomenclature and its hegemony, which have the power to intervene in economic and political developments through certain institutions.
We know that U.S. presidents that represented the liberal world advocated coups across the world and engaged in all kinds of unlawful activities outside the U.S. while representing the U.S. as a state of law. This is exactly one of the reasons why the masses disrupted liberal hypocrisy.
Some analysts are trying to spread fear by arguing that Trump gets on well with Russia and this fact will make it harder for the Syrian opposition. However, Russia has been the hegemonic power in that field for a long while. Aleppo has been bombed by Russia for months now. Besides, during Barack Obama's term in office, the U.S. already turned into a scapegoat in the face of Russia, both in Ukraine and Syria.
So, the election of Trump, who promises to subvert both the American and global status quo, was not met with fear in the Middle East. On the contrary, they are rather pleased because they are finished with the Obama government, which caused the expansion of Iran and pursued policies in line with various terrorist groups including the Hashd al-Shaabi (People›s Mobilization Forces), the PKK and Hezbollah instead of with its allies in the region.
Therefore, the man who will take over the presidential office on Jan. 20 is not a greater disappointment than Obama is now.