What does a US unable to put out its own fire promise the Kurds?

We already knew and said that the structure the United States has for years been trying to build with great support in northern Syria was quite inappropriate, needless and even harmful. But the new situation that has emerged in Syria has rendered this structure defunct even from the standpoint of a situation forcibly created.

The United States, claiming that a terrorist organization had emerged 5,000 miles away on the border of Türkiye, its ally in NATO, and regarding it as a threat to itself, came and tried, in order to fight this imaginary organization, to have a petty state established by arming and organizing another terrorist organization. In doing so it also acted in full cooperation with the Syrian regime. Against a regime that, in order to eliminate the imaginary or possible threats the terrorist organization might pose to the lives of innocent people, committed real crimes against all humanity in these places, carried out massacres, and criminally slaughtered hundreds of thousands of people in its prisons, it said and did nothing.

THE UNITED STATES IS NOT THE SOLUTION TO PROBLEMS BUT THEIR CAUSE

In essence, the United States has never been a problem-solving actor in its foreign operations; it has itself been the source of problems. Here, its calculations concerning the YPG, which it took under its protection on the pretext that it was useful in the fight against ISIS, coincided with the calculations of the murderer Assad regime. Assad handed this region over to the US-YPG with an easy mind, out of a grudge for revenge against Türkiye. We say "out of a grudge for revenge," but the Assad regime's use of the PKK against Türkiye did not begin after 2011 either. Even without any score to settle against Türkiye, Hafez Assad was using the PKK against Türkiye and giving it every kind of logistical support.

When Türkiye, in the resolution process, took as courageous and peaceful an initiative as possible, the offer that turned the PKK's head was the de facto situation formed in Northern Syria by the cooperation of Assad and the United States. In this de facto situation, the PKK leaning its back on the United States, and the HADEP people leaning their backs on the PKK, undermined with all their insolence the resolution process Erdoğan had launched at great risk.

When the Assad regime fell and for the first time in years a wholeness formed across all of Syria, the regions the United States had handed over to the YPG were exposed like iodine. The vast majority of those living in these regions, where almost all of Syria's oil fields are located, are Arabs, and all of them now want to be part of a unitary Syria; none of them wants to live under the US-YPG administration. ISIS, behind which the United States has taken refuge as an excuse for staying here, had not been heard from for years, and everyone sees the trickery behind its suddenly appearing with strange acts. These tricks will in no way suffice to remove the uselessness, the impropriety of the United States that has emerged in Syria.

Under these circumstances, it will be to everyone's benefit that, in the new "terror-free Türkiye" process now continuing in Türkiye, they not misread Erdoğan's outstretched hand as before and go chasing new opportunities from it. Those who treated the hand extended earlier as an opportunity to expand their own feudal domain made Türkiye lose a great deal of time, but at the end of the day it was they who lost most.

THE BURNING OF AMERICAN SOCIAL CAPITAL

Meanwhile, those who look to the United States for the continuation of some of their privileges in Syria would do well to take a lesson from the helplessness the United States has fallen into in these days over the fire in Los Angeles, in the state of California. In the face of thousands of villas turned to ashes in fires in the richest state of the United States, in its richest settlement, what the vast state apparatus has experienced is a picture of complete bankruptcy. The firefighters who are to respond to the fire are very few, and those that exist have very few firefighting planes and helicopters.

The fire spreads rapidly, and within a day or two the appearance of a great city came to resemble Gaza.

In fact, fires are disasters to which the United States, and California in particular, is no stranger. California is the richest state of the United States, and its economic volume can be ranked alongside countries among the world's economies. Even so, the weakness the system has fallen into in fighting a fire is not just a management helplessness; it shows how exhausted the social capital of the United States' most prosperous society is in terms of social solidarity and resisting common problems. The greater the economic capital, the more inevitable it is that such miserable scenes will confront us unless it is supported by social capital. The tragic side of the matter is that there is a linear relationship between the development of economic capital and the decline of social capital. The latest issue of Tezkire Dergisi has devoted its dossier to the subject of Social Capital. For this dossier, which contains theoretical and applied studies on what kinds of risks await the modern prosperous world in this regard, the situation of the United States in the face of this fire constitutes a perfect example.

THE UNITED STATES HAS NO EXCUSE LEFT IN SYRIA

Moreover, with this helplessness the United States has shown in governing its own country standing in plain view, let us say as bad news to the YPG and its other components in Syria who look to it for help that it can no longer go on giving orders to the world as it used to. It is already no secret that Trump, who described its helplessness in the face of the fire as a serious management helplessness, sees the United States' foreign missions as an irreconcilable contradiction with this helplessness.

The United States has neither a solution to offer the Syrian people nor any benefit or loyalty for the Kurds. Those who brought it here in pursuit of an adventure are known. Their energy too is exhausted, and all the disasters caused by the adventures they pursued have come out plainly, in Türkiye and in Syria. Today in the Middle East there is a new reality, a new horizon. This reality and this horizon require Turks, Kurds and Arabs to build their worlds and their future together. And by removing the needless, opportunistic imperialists from between them.