Chapter 1547: Turkey's Ambition
The game of world powers has never been about fighting and killing, nor is it about doing whatever you want.
Even for the United States, it is impossible for every step of the strategic deployment to proceed in the best interests of the country.
Any country that is eligible to participate in the global political game must do a good job in the exchange of political chips.
The only difference is that a superpower has always used the interests of a small country as a bargaining chip to exchange interests with another superpower. This is global politics, a tragedy that a small country can never get rid of.
Putin and Beijing are definitely masters of strategy, and this is truly worthy of the name.
Russia's core interests lie in Ukraine, but Putin and Beijing have a way to play a bargaining chip in the Middle East as a condition of exchange with the United States.
This is where Putin and Beijing are most brilliant, and Putin and Beijing killed two birds with one stone back then, and they also included Turkey by the way.
And Turkey has been the biggest loser in this Middle East political game for several years.
It can be said that Erdogan has always thought that he is the player in this game, but the result completely shows that he is just a small pawn on the chessboard mountain.
When Erdogan understood, Turkey had already fallen into a lot of passivity.
At this time, the rise of Cai Ruichen and the resolution of the Syrian issue made Turkey's passivity instantly resolved.
Turkey has only one core strategic interest, and that is the issue of the Kurds in the southeast.
The way Putin and Beijing retaliated against Turkey at the beginning was to support the Kurds in northern Syria to establish an autonomous region together with the United States. This will have a huge centrifugal force on the Kurds in southeastern Turkey, and even the Kurdish autonomous region in Syria may establish an independent state. At that time, Turkey Civil war is bound to break out.
This is the point that the Turkish government is most worried about. At that time, Turkey was also trying to pull Iraq and Iran into an alliance.
Because the issue of the Kurds is an issue of common interests of Syria, Turkey, Iraq, and Iran.
Tens of millions of Kurds live in the southeastern region of Turkey, the northern part of Syria and Iraq, and the western region of Iran. Once the Kurds in one area establish an independent state, the effect will be no less than that of the Jewish state.
However, due to the rise of Cai Ruichen, it was also exchanged for benefits,
Let the United States and Russia abandon their intervention in Syria at the same time, and send troops to forcefully unify Syria, which will instantly resolve the crisis of Turkey's core interests.
This is why, after the establishment of the Iraqi-Syrian Federation, the relationship between Turkey and the Iraqi-Syrian Federation began to continue to heat up.
Because as long as the strong rule of the Iraqi-Syrian Federation exists for one day, the Kurds will not be able to jump up and down.
After the United States promised a lot of benefits, many high-level officials in the Turkish government are naturally quite excited.
This involves the issue of natural gas and oil pipelines.
Europe has always wanted to get natural gas from the Middle East to get rid of the claws of Russia's control of natural gas. It once tried to lay pipelines from Turkmenistan, through the Caspian Sea Caucasus, and into Europe through Turkey.
It is also trying to transport natural gas from Qatar and Saudi Arabia through Syria and Turkey to mainland Europe.
Naturally, Qatar and Saudi Arabia would like to be able to transport natural gas to Europe, because that represents a lot of money.
This is also the economic reason why the countries headed by Saudi Arabia want to resolutely attack the Assad regime in Syria.
Because of the relationship between Syria and Russia at the time, the proposal to lay a natural gas pipeline from Syria was firmly rejected.
To build a natural gas pipeline from Iran to Europe, it has to go through Iraq and Turkey.
In other words, no matter what, if Europe wants to obtain natural gas from the Middle East, Turkey's geographical location has become the most critical point.
Since Putin and Beijing came to power, they have paid close attention to Turkey's strategic advantage across the Eurasian territory, so Russia has been trying to develop good diplomatic relations with Turkey.
It doesn't matter if Turkey joins NATO. If Turkey shoots down Russian fighter jets, Putin and Beijing can also grit their teeth and endure it.
For the benefit of the overall grand strategy, otherwise, with Putin and Beijing's violent temper, Turkey and Russia would have been at war for a long time.
Of course, once the strategic masters of Putin and Beijing have the opportunity, they will inevitably retaliate.
The opportunity came soon, that is, when the Kurds and Russia proposed federalism in the Syrian issue, and the United States also supported it, Turkey's claws were suddenly numb.
As a result, the Turkish Prime Minister was forced to resign and step down, and then immediately made a series of strategic adjustments.
When the Iraqi-Syrian Federation was established, Turkey also realized that it had made a big mistake in its strategy, or that the new Turkish national strategy was correct, but the implementation method was wrong.
Turkey, which once resolutely attacked the Assad regime, immediately changed its tune and expressed its willingness to repair with Syria and restore the relationship between the two parties. At the same time, Turkey has once again walked with Russia since then.
In the face of the country's highest strategic interests, Putin and Beijing also let go of the hatred that a fighter jet was shot down, and the two sides once again repaired their relationship.
Fundamentally speaking, Cai Ruichen also seems to be unintentional, but in fact he is deliberately helping Turkey, helping Turkey get rid of the fundamental crisis in the country, and prompting Turkey to fall to Russia again.
The original intention of this purpose is to continue to divide the relationship between Turkey and NATO, and to cut off NATO's tentacles around him.
But this time the United States asked Turkey to send troops, and made a huge promise to Turkey. This promise is to help Turkey implement the new Ottoman strategy.
The so-called new Ottoman strategy is Turkey's ambitious strategy of trying to centrally control the territory of the Ottoman Turkish Empire. The formulation of this strategy completely negates Turkey's decades-long strategy of wanting to join Europe.
In the development of Turkey in the past, only when Turkey joined Europe, could it enjoy the high-speed economic development in Europe, which would be conducive to the future development of Turkey. If you contact more rich people, you will naturally become richer.
But now, this thinking has changed. The new Ottoman strategy is Turkey's attempt to build a global center, a new world center standing between Europe and Asia.
It has to be said that Turkey's strategic adjustment has just reached Cai Ruichen's heart, but when two people with the same ambitions meet, they will be tit-for-tat enemies, and there is no second possibility at all.
(To be continued.)