On the irreversible transformation of the global order.
On the irreversible transformation of the global order.
By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist/Author
The world has been gradually experiencing a global change in the light of fast-paced agendas, especially in the last 5 years, and the developments that have taken place clearly demonstrate that the “West and others” approach, established after World War II, is no longer real.
This 5-year process, which started with the pandemic, first revealed the defects of Europe and the West in general in many topics ranging from economy to human rights, from health to democracy.
During the pandemic, while the world read the news that the masks ordered by Italy were confiscated by the Czech Republic and the masks and medicines ordered by Germany were confiscated by the USA, on the other hand, the world witnessed food wars due to the disruptions in the trade corridors extending to Europe and the patients and funerals lying on the floors in hospitals.
But that was not all.
Statements such as “Europe is a garden, the rest of the world is a jungle” by Borrell, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and “Africans should thank us, without France they would not exist today” by French President Macron, highlighted the arrogance of the West in humiliating the peoples they have exploited throughout history.
But that was not all.
The wars in Ukraine and Gaza have also revealed the hypocritical approach of the West towards the so-called human rights, democracy and international law.
It has become clear that all these concepts are marketing products that are marketed by the West in shop windows but become worthless as soon as they touch the interests of the West.
Despite the massacre of more than 50,000 people in Gaza, 70% of them women and children, and the open occupation of territory, international law has been shelved, human rights have been ignored, and institutions such as the UN and the International Criminal Court, which are supposed to be “guarantors of a rules-based global order”, have been rendered completely ineffective.
And the latest tango in this hypocrisy is the Ukraine issue.
The Wild West’s “might makes right” rule and the true face of the West
US President Donald Trump’s approach to Ukrainian President Zelensky, whom he received at the White House, clearly demonstrated that the West is only on the side of Ukraine for its own interests and that neither Ukraine nor the Ukrainian people have any value in their eyes if they cannot gain anything from it.
When US President Donald Trump received Zelensky, the topic of the meeting was neither the 12 million Ukrainian civilians who have been forced to flee the country, nor the more than 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers who lost their lives in the war.
It was only about the dollars that the US was giving to Ukraine and whether or not Ukraine was going to hand over its underground resources to the US.
The events revealed that the support for Ukraine since the beginning of the war was really only “for the security of Europe” and that Ukraine and the Ukrainian people were used as a trump card.
The European countries that supported the US, which recklessly bypassed the UN structure during the massacres in Gaza, received a second shock.
Because this time there was a development at the UN that shocked the Europeans as well.
At the UN General Assembly, a draft resolution demanding “Russia’s complete withdrawal from Ukrainian territory” received 93 yes votes and 18 rejections. The US was one of the 18 member states that voted against it.
In other words, the European countries that supported the US’s lawlessness at the UN during the Gaza war have now suffered the same fate with regard to Ukraine, which they consider indispensable for their own security, and have faced the reality that law and justice will be necessary for everyone.
The irreversible transformation of the global order
All these events have brought to light the “Wild West’s” “might makes right” rule, in other words, the true face of the West.
At this point, the so-called “rules-based global order” established after the Second World War has been replaced by a new approach that evaluates relations in terms of cost-benefit.
The value of Türkiye’s independent policy strategy, which it has been pursuing for years, and its security and foreign policy vision that does not rely on the Western axis, is now much better understood.