The Iron Chickpea Evolution of the Pyrrhic Victory

What is Pyrrhic Triumph?

In the world war literature, there is a concept called "The Pyrrhic Victory". I quote directly from Wikipedia: It is a victory at the expense of devastating losses. It means that the victory won becomes meaningless after the losses given. This concept, which has historical roots, gained a different meaning after the two world wars. Because Nuclear, Biological and Chemical warfare tools, with their increasing effects and developing methods, are much more lethal Conventional war instruments, the next great war has assumed the identity of mutual destruction.

Preference for Proxy Wars:

For this reason, the imperial and sovereign powers in the world have started to use proxy wars, civil wars and terrorist organizations for their own purposes and have adopted a different understanding of power struggle. Sometimes preemptive wars were fought, sometimes superpowers had to intervene in another country. However, examples such as Vietnam and Afghanistan proved that even this cannot be long-lasting.

Now we are witnessing another form of struggle that has two faces. A country is waging a hopeful defensive war on a military basis against another immensely powerful country. At the same time, other countries take a distinct stand and take sides on all non-military fronts (information technologies, economy, trade, production, politics, etc.). The interesting thing is that military resistance and foreign attitude together present a completely different level of threat. So much so that it can be difficult to even understand and make sense of it from a conventional or orthodox point of view.

Analysis of the Russia-Ukraine War:

In the current Russia-Ukraine conflict, we see that all comments and analyzes are handled with country-based political analyzes. The USA made this sanction, Japan did that, the European Union took that decision, China's attitude was this… But we are missing another important process that is taking place at the same time. If we divide the same Ukrainian side into two as the military resistance forces of the country and the non-military attitude / support of foreign countries; And the sanctions that Russia is facing: "Sanctions of countries and sanctions of global firms (capital)." We have to divide it into two.

I draw your attention. We see the open and clear involvement of global companies, which are larger than the law and capital structure of the country in which they were born, into the war. Now the "corporatocracy elite" can also take a decision-making stance in global struggles. The results of this attitude can be much more harmful, effective and long-term than the ones countries get. You may not fully realize it yet, but we will see it together in time.

Multinational Companies and Sanctions:

At the moment, the heat of the war makes it difficult to distinguish on this issue. Because the place is covered with gunpowder fog and haze. However, if the shipment of the already produced Russian Elbrus microprocessors, whose casting process has been completed, has been delayed, it is necessary to consider whether the agility of this attitude is a decision of a country or a company. Likewise, we know that the S-400 primarily uses these microprocessors in many areas of the Russian defense industry. We clearly observe companies such as Netfilix, Coca-Cola, Meta, Ikea, McDonalds, Apple as some of the names in the showcase of this business.

It is obvious that we are entering a new era in which the attitude of companies is as important as the countries in our age when countries are stepping into the challenges that will be tested in the fire. Our country may not have realized this yet. But the reality in question is China, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Brazil, etc. It would be realistic to say that it is perceived by many countries and evaluated with deep thoughts. Of course, from another side of the business, in terms of the European countries of the old continent, which are holding it in another way...

We may be living in a time when the interests of some countries and global capital and companies are compatible. However, it is also certain that the global capital in question is walking towards the power to make decisions completely independent of the interests of a country or pact. Because the genie is out of the bottle, or we can say that Pandora's box has been opened. I am of the opinion that we are progressing to a point of no return from passing through in this area.

Strap on the Iron Chickpeas Strategy:

In our country, roasted chickpea is a very popular dry food that is consumed with pleasure from past to present. It seems that there is a possibility that the roasted chickpeas will be turned into iron by a power whether it is a country or not. Just as there are countless ways to pay and pay the price, military or not. Therefore, in the near future, we can predict that the trend will shift to the iron chickpea strategy rather than the victory of Pyrrhus. If there is something you want to do, if you can afford it, do it. But you may have to pay for the dimensions that you did not even calculate. After that, you have to calculate the ground of action and the range of initiative according to a new algorithm...

To tell the truth, there is enough material to write many articles on this subject. However, this aspect, which was ignored by many intellectuals, I wanted to open it even if it's just as a title.

Note: Provocative Thoughts is the fifth article in the New Horizons series. (To be continued)