Retreating US Left Israel Behind
The "Turkish Alternative" will now fill the vacuum left behind by the US Hegemony in the Middle East. That is the cumulative consequence of Clinton's Monica, Bush's Iraq war, and Obama's Obamacare.
Bill Clinton’s escapades in the Oval Office started the downward wortex. George Bush’s Iraq War and Barack Obama’s shortcomings across board ensured the fate of the US in the region. As a result, the US began retreating. However, the retreating US left Israel behind, and all alone.
The retreat today continues with Joe Biden. The US pulled out of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Today, the US is trying to reconstitute itself in Greece and the rest of the Balkans. Soon, the world will witness the final US pull back from Iraq and Syria as well.
THE NEW WORLD ORDER
Globalists came out of the closet in 1992 with the Bill Clinton presidency. Two more stooges like him and within 24 years, moral, military, and economic decay of the US was complete.
The disliked Donald Trump, at least gave the retreating and breathless US some respite. As a realist and patriot, he understood the importance of G-20 over G-7, which was the Globalist tool.
Joe Biden, another stooge of Globalism, continued with G-7 shenanigans. The US lost precious time and opportunities. The rapidly rising East, long switched from Globalism to Nationalism, capitalised.
The New World Order nowadays sets up new regimes across the world. China and India are at the helm but there are others like for example Turkiye. It will surely and overwhelmingly fill the vacuum in the Middle East.
Retreating US Left Israel Behind
The New World Order
In the New World Order, Israel has to work with all the rising powers of the East. Three of them control the region more and more while the US is retreating. There are consequences for this switch. One, the US will not be around like it used to be for Israel. Two, Israel has to make adjustments to other powers at the expense of the US. There are no other options available for either Israel or the US in that regard.
The US
Retreating US had no other option but to leave Israel behind to a degree ever since the turn of the Millennia. One, the US no longer has the economic reach it used to have.
Two, the Sixth Fleet, assigned to the Mediterranean Sea, needs safe harbors. Three, the US has no more options but to accommodate the rising powers of the East.
China
China moved into the Middle East from both ends. It began building the sea port in Pakistan. Now, it is in Basra to link Pakistan to Turkiye over Iraq.
Coupled with ports in Haifa-Israel and Piraeus-Greece, China nudges the US nicely in the region.
India
India, meanwhile, insidiously takes advantage of the US. Reportedly, it is established promptly next to China in Haifa-Israel.
All the while it is also building a parallel line from Bombay through Saudi Arabia, making it double whammy against the US.
Turkiye
Turkiye rules the region, again, since 2002. The US only began to notice it after 2010 but it was already too late.
I authored “GameChanger” in 2020 and explained. Turkiye took the ropes in the region with the US “instigated” 1980 coup d’etat in the country.
Retreating US Left Israel Behind
Turkish Alternative and Israeli Reality
Israel understood this rapidly changing reality. However, it had shortcomings. Cutting ties with the US was not in the cards. First, it was not wise or realistic. Two, the Israeli Diaspora in the West had all the pull.
Further complication to this international dilemma was the domestic mess. Israel for the first time in its history also realized the shortcomings of British democracy. In fact, it was the American hegemony that was the assurance for British democracy.
Retreating US brought this reality out in the open. Today, who in Israel realizes it, I have no idea. However, the frequency of Israeli leaders visiting with their Turkish counterpart President Recep Tayyip Erdogan explains it best.
Turkish Alternative
The last encounter of President Erdogan with an Israeli Prime Minister was Ehud Olmert in 2008. Bibi Netanyahu totally relied on the US and never met Erdogan. 2010-2020 Erdogan filled the vacuum left behind the US in the Middle East.
Yair Lapid, as prime minister and Isaac Herzog, as president noted this rapid transformation in the region.
Netanyahu also understood the realities at hand and now plans to visit Erdogan in Turkiye, as a result.
Turkiye is the dominant economic and military power of the entire region. China’s main middle route of the Belt and Road Initiative passes through Turkiye. Half of the Mediterranean sea is also now an exclusive Turkish economic zone called Mavi Vatan.
Furthermore, since the 1 October 2023 bombing attempt that failed in Ankara, Turkiye has decided to end the US tenure in northern Iraq and Syria. Though Turkiye will ensure it is done gracefully and with dignity, nevertheless it will take place.
Israeli Reality
Besides Turkish reality, there is also Muslim reality in the region. Coupled with China and India taking presence, the last tier are the neighboring countries. Israel can accomodate all of them. However, first it must resolve the Palestinian problem.
Harsh reality is the fact that more countries in the world see it as the Israeli problem. There are more countries that feel sympathy with Palestinians today than Israelis. This equation must be balanced before anything else.
Israeli sovereignty is undeniable however like President Erdogan poses the question: What exactly are the borders of the sovereign Israel? If it is not the 1948 borders, are they limited to the 1967 borders? Do the borders in 2023 make it?
This is a legitimate question to answer the problem be it Palestinian or Israeli. No country, including China, India, or Turkiye will be like the US for Israel. China and India are there for commercial reasons but for Turkiye the interests are vitally important.
Retreating US Left Israel Behind
Turkiye Will Fill the Vacuum
There is no doubt that Turkiye will fill the vacuum left behind by the retreating US. Turkiye will not let either Israel or the Palestinians down. Unlike the US, Turkiye will not side with one at the expense of the other.
Turkiye did not do it when it reigned in the region for more than four centuries. There is no reason to do it now. In other words, the retreating US left Israel behind but Turkiye will ensure that Israel will continue to exist.
Does that mean, Turkiye will fend off Iranian influence? If only the West or Globalists did not back stab Turkiye, Israel today would have been a much better democracy. That is a fact but that is not the place to make the case.
In other words, retreating US leaving Israel behind actually is not the problem. The problem is how to bring the enmity between the Israelis and the Palestinains to an end. So that, they can all live in peace and keep their nose out of the other’s business.