Trump, a lone cowboy in the US

Following Trump's announcement on Twitter on 19 December of his decision to withdraw ABD troops from Syria, the process that began in Syria, as it stands so far, has revealed ABD's internal disarray, indecision and the incompatibility of its decision-makers with one another.

Unless all these parties are deliberately trying to give the world this picture of quarreling among themselves for a new, calculated and planned purpose (which is a scenario one can always take refuge in for super-conspiracism), it is a heartbreaking sight for ABD as a superpower.

Both the Pentagon and the CIA had opposed Trump's withdrawal decision. That was not enough; senators of his own party opposed it on the grounds that it would leave ABD's allies in the fight against DAEŞ terror (that is, the JPG elements) defenseless against Turkey. That was not enough either; Israel criticized this withdrawal by saying it would only serve Iran. Of course SA and BAE also showed their opposition on this matter by presenting themselves as aspiring to fill the vacuum that would arise.

In all this process Trump was in fact left alone by all the other political actors in his decision to withdraw troops from Syria, and even if necessary from the whole Middle East, which has become a matter of serious expectation among a significant segment of the ABD public. He is now almost a lone man, a lone cowboy.

Whatever anyone says, ABD's military presence and current activities in Syria are contrary to the interests of the ABD people and state. Not only in Syria but in the whole Middle East, today's ABD policies are of no benefit to ABD and do it much harm. With its current form of policy ABD is sowing no positive value for the future, and this leads to its decline.

ABD, which invests only in Israel's security and in Zionism, has no chance of winning in the Middle East in the long run. In fact, in the end of Zionism Israel too is doomed to lose and to make everyone standing beside it lose. Because Zionism is a bigoted ideology that tries to make water climb uphill, contrary to the realities of history and the world.

The ABD public too is today seriously questioning the way all American values are stuck in the vise of this bigoted ideology. The new ABD generations are seriously questioning the ABD policies that today grant Israel what is almost an unjust advantage of untouchability, and the view that this constitutes the real serious threat to ABD is gaining ever wider currency.

Likewise, the efforts spent to keep today's putschist dictator regimes standing, for the sake of the same Zionism, render void ABD's claims of commitment to democratic values, human rights and freedoms. It distances it from the consistency and seriousness that being the world's superpower requires. A superpower does not base its greatness and superiority solely on its weapons or its money. It also bases it on its commitment to universal values, its consistency, its trustworthiness and its commitment to justice.

In this respect ABD's Middle East policies are both far from universal values, lacking in consistency, untrustworthy, and in no way appeal to the sense of justice. In this state it may perhaps keep its power going for a while longer by force of arms or money up to a point, but its collapse afterwards is inevitable.

The Israeli press had reported Trump's decision to withdraw troops from Syria as "There could be no better New Year gift for Erdoğan, Rouhani and Putin." This and similar reactions were in fact harbingers of the crisis to come. Trump's tweet threatening Turkey with economic sanctions can perhaps also be seen as a white flag he has raised against the pressures coming from inside and outside and the operation to isolate him.

ABD currently lacks an argument that could explain what kind of plan it has for Syria and what benefit this brings to Syria. With the JPG elements it supports, it is not only producing and developing a threat to Turkey, its ally in NATO, but also altogether damaging Syria's territorial integrity and social peace beyond repair.

What it does on the Syrian soil on which it pours taxes collected from the ABD people neither stops the bloodshed nor strengthens peace and human rights nor benefits the Syrian people. In that case, how will it explain to its own people its presence in Syria, which causes a great cost to the ABD people? True, these days it is trying to present to the ABD people, by dramatizing it, a flimsy pretext such as "protecting the Kurds who fought as its ally against DAEŞ." But from whom will it protect the Kurds? From Turkey? Who says Turkey is fighting the Kurds?

To describe Turkey's war with the PKK as a war with the Kurds is no different from ABD or anyone else characterizing their war against DAEŞ as a war against Muslims. Yet just as Turkey is not fighting the Kurds when it fights the PKK, it is not fighting Muslims when it fights DAEŞ. On the contrary, when fighting the PKK it is at the same time fighting the enemies of the Kurds, just as when fighting DAEŞ it is fighting the enemy of Muslims.

We actually have no need to tell them what DAEŞ is. They already know very well what DAEŞ is. We have no chance of knowing better than they do in which laboratories they produced it and released it on the market.

Turkey is the only country that knows what it is doing in Syria and can explain everything it does to the world with peace of mind.

Turkey wants Syria's territorial integrity, social peace, and Syria belonging only to Syrians, and is striving for this. Let us begin the discussion and negotiation from here.

Turkey's interventions in Syria are based not on having its eye on Syrian soil but on stopping the threats directed at Turkey from Syrian soil, that is, on the right of self-defense.

When it is an indisputable fact that the slightest movement or unrest on Syrian soil brings a wave of migration toward Turkey, no one can have a greater right than Turkey to be concerned with what is going on in Syria.