Apostolos Apostolopoulos: The decline of the West is a windfall for Erdogan

NATO has suffered a “stroke”, Macron reiterated for the second time a few days ago, without adding substance or effect. On the contrary, the President of the French Republic made a volte face when one of Erdogan’s Turkish warship barred a French ship from conducting a search of a ship carrying illegal weapons to Libya.

NATO is indifferent to Macron’s actions. Friends and allies alike, are now uninhibitedly venting their spite against each other, without interruption. Discipline and solidarity have gone on holiday, and the boss (the Americans) looks more like a pyromaniac than a firefighter. “NATO is outdated,” as Trump has said.

For the Americans, NATO is useful in keeping Europeans away from the Russians and the Chinese. In addition, to preventing Europeans from gaining autonomous armed forces, led by Germany. And of course, for paying Alliance expenses, because the US can’t afford it anymore. But according to FORBES, the Russians will destroy any NATO forces in the Baltic within 60 hours.

Former French intelligence officials believe (according to French blogs) that the United States expelled France and promoted Turkey in Syria and Libya because, among other things, Paris had approached the Kurds, who are dissatisfied with the concesssions of the Americans. to the Turks.

Τhe USA as Tyrant

European demands have shrunk to cheap oil / gas and unhindered trade with Russia and China. Both are hindered by the Americans. Europeans whine, but kowtow. Conversely, the United States cannot stand internationally as a superpower without its Europeans buttress. The US has turned from a savior/ally into a tyrant!

In Western Europe there is enormous wealth, accumulated over the years of colonization, as well as significant capital in knowledge and technology. Western Europe is the perfect complement to any great player, as long as Germany’s leadership ambitions are nipped (but others are fast asleep)!

But Germany is so small and so economically weak that it cannot impose itself on Europe without reckless violence. Berlin does not understand the difference between a governor and a tyrant. Germany, in order to maintain a tolerable standard of living and its primacy over the EU, is obliged to suck the blood of southern Europeans through memoranda. And it always has Russia (tsarist, Soviet, Putin) looming above it, a cause of terror and envy.

American on the decline

The United States remains the only superpower, but on a steady course of decline. The Americans solved their internal problems, using the classical method of turning the country’s potential outward against a real or imaginary enemy. After the defeat in Vietnam, this solution is slowly, but steadily, coming to an end.

President Trump has not started a new war. But the United States has never before imposed so many sanctions, not only on opponents, but also on close allies so that their obedience does not falter. The classic recipe for exporting the internal crisis is running out, because the US was waging wars but not winning them. The downfall has brought division and unbridled violence inside the country, not the other way around. Racism is the ultimate, deceptive, attempt to “export” the crisis from the black minority to the dominant “white America.”

An artful Turkey

In this climate of western decay and corruption, Erdogan is flourishing as an artful player between the Kremlin and the White House. Speaking of non-existent Turkish rights, he is robbing his neighbors, Libya’s oil, and wants the hydrocarbons of both Cyprus and Greece. In Greece, some are bothered by the “undiplomatic” interventions of the leadership of the armed forces (in the spirit of the ancient Spartans’ Molon Lave), not because they are supposedly misguided and hostile, but because it becomes clear that no one wants to become a scapegoat. The one who signs is held accountable, as Tsipras was for the Prespa Agreement.

American capitalism, with its explicit greed and under the guidance of Kissinger, did what no bourgeois or communist could do so well and so quickly: American capitalists, in no time at all, “trained” the Chinese to (hitherto urban beggars and backwards yokels) to become proletarians with strict factory discipline.

The American capitalists did it, not the Chinese communists. It took three to four centuries for this transformation in the West, and three or four decades in China. If China is (as they say in the West), communist then woe to Western capitalism! If, then again, it is capitalist, then the Westerners have gouged out their eyes with their own hands (as a Greek proverb relating to Oedipus has it).

Absence of solid alliances

The American and European elites support Erdogan, hoping that his visions of Ottoman splendor will lead him to a confrontation with Russia like the old sultans, seeing that while the Ottomans had reached Vienna they were losing to the Russians. Now Trump is undermining NATO to reduce Germany.

Macron does not dare cooperate with Trump, so that they can face Berlin together. But he does not dare to approach Russia either, so that Germany would be squeezed and Italy would be expelled from Libya, while not being humiliated by Erdogan. It all comes down to the idea that the US is only maintaining the Alliance so that Europeans can absorb the first deadly blows from Russian nuclear weapons!

In short, the advertised cooperation between France, Greece, Egypt, Cyprus, and perhaps Israel, is a partnership of the lesser for the least. And to wrap things up, the worrying thing is not that Erdogan and Mitsotakis talked. It’s well they did. It is worrying that the leaks from the Greek PM’s office say that they talked about a lot of things, but not the crucial issue: Turkish demands.