Where will Trump, whose guide is Sisi, drag the US?

The constitutional amendment of the putschist Sisi, who holds his own country and people hostage with his armed forces, and which effectively opens for him the way to be president of the Egyptian people until 2030, has been completed without any surprise.

In a sham referendum held with extremely low turnout, where there was no voter database at all, there was in any case no probability or possibility of any dissenting voice emerging.

This dictator, who stands only by the power of the gun, only the gun, arrested and threw into prison everyone who ran against him in the last presidential election, and, that not being enough, everyone who had the idea of running cross his mind, and, that not being enough, everyone about whom someone voiced the possibility of running.

Among them were Sami Annan, the Chief of General Staff in the Mubarak era; Hisham Genena, the former head of the State Audit Authority; and Ahmed Shafik, who as a presidential candidate against Morsi had received 48 percent of the vote in a real election. None of these is a so-called "Brotherhood member." They were simply names who would all have been certain to win in a real election, or in any election they would have entered alone against Sisi. The only reason for their arrest or their being sidelined was that they ran against Sisi, that there was a possibility of their running, or that someone saw them that way.

Now Sisi has removed all the obstacles in the way of his own dictatorship, and, so that friends may see it on the path to democracy, having also established the constitutional ground, has secured, by his own reckoning, the rule of Egypt for the next 12 years as well. Of course, for after 12 years God is generous. When that day arrives, if Sisi is still alive and nothing else has happened in Egypt, he will then think of making the arrangement to stay in power for another 25 years.

Of course, how well will this calculation he made to suit himself fit the realities of Egypt? Will the Egyptian people, who have an extremely dynamic young population of over a hundred million with a high growth rate, carry Sisi to the very end? Moreover, did Sisi carry out his coup, massacre thousands of his people, hold over a hundred thousand people in dungeons under severe torture conditions, with the rights that the laws or the constitution gave him so far? What is a Constitution to people like Sisi? What value does it have for him other than a formal document?

Once one has leaned one's back on Trump, the current president of the US, who in the Middle East needs a constitution, given the audacity he gives? So long as there is no shortfall in the tribute paid to him, everyone can be above every kind of law or constitution, can massacre as many people as he wishes, can commit as many human rights violations as he wishes. In return for certain price tariffs, the US can be the patron of every kind of filth, every kind of massacre and lawlessness in the Middle East.

Thus the US becomes thoroughly identified in the Middle East (and in fact, as clearly seen from the picture that has emerged these days because of Venezuela, in Latin America too) with an identity that stands out through coups, dictators, the protection given to psychopathic rulers who massacre their peoples, and enmity toward peoples.

Now it is understood that the US is preparing to declare the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamic political and civil movement widespread in every part of the world, a terrorist organization. It was known that pressure had been applied to the US for this decision from Egypt-BAE-SA for quite some time. And it was also known that there was serious resistance to these pressures, especially during the Obama administration. The grounds of this resistance were, first, that the whole world knew this movement had nothing to do with terror; second, that this movement represented the most moderate, civil and legitimate political aspect of Islam, and that there was a risk that such a decision by the US would be perceived as a declaration of total war no longer only against this organization but against Islam; and third, that it was difficult to get even the American public to accept this.

It appears that Trump has given up resisting such pressures, which the Obama administration constantly resisted. Though it is highly probable that he accepted it without resisting at all the moment it came to his agenda. Trump, who received Sisi in the past month, did not turn down his request in this direction and was persuaded of such a decision, which could wipe away all the values of the US in one stroke.

Of course, at this stage, the question that will come to mind more often is this? Does the US, which has built up the PKK, considered a terrorist organization even by its own classification, against Turkey, its own ally, with unprecedented armed support in Syria, still have the right or the credibility to make terror classifications?

It is clear that the US's characterization as a terrorist organization of a movement that has never approved or attempted any armed action will deal a new blow to US credibility, coming from a US that avoids characterizing FETÖ as a terrorist organization, an organization that attempted a coup using its armed elements secretly organized in Turkey, that massacred 250 citizens and wounded 2200 people in that attempt, and that shelters the ringleader of that organization in its own country.

Especially that the US went along with such a decision under the guidance of Sisi, who has sidelined his most legitimate opponents with unimaginable ploys and who came to power by a bloody coup involving crimes against humanity, is enough and more than enough as a page of shame in US history.

Yet the US, which claims world hegemony, could have done more serious things. If it truly invested sincerely in the democracy and human rights it claims to represent, it could have deservedly maintained its hegemony not merely as an armed power but at the level of a representation of human values. Yet the US's choice is, rather than being a valued power, to be a bully power that inspires no respect or admiration and that hobnobs with putschists, gangs and terrorist organizations.

This is the choice of the US under the Trump administration, and its guides in this choice are these partners in crime. This guidance only shows that the US's nose will never come out of the filth.