Cold Peace
The doctrine of the USA during the hot war period between 1914-1918 and 1939-1945 was embodied in the framework of realism mainstream thought, in the form of making the whole world accept its own power by force of arms.
The doctrine of the USA during the hot war period between 1914-1918 and 1939-1945 was embodied in the framework of realism mainstream thought, in the form of making the whole world accept its own power by force of arms. Almost the entire continent of Europe and partly the continent of Asia was devastated as a result of these two catastrophic wars. The fact that there was no direct attack on his country in both wars is one of the main reasons why the USA was one of the leading and leading actors of the cold war period, which started from the 1950s at the end of the hot war period and continued until the collapse of the USSR in 1991. In this period, the main political goal of the USA, which continued its hegemony in different parts of the world, sometimes through controlling and sometimes shaping policies, was the expansion, growth and growth of the other bloc led by the USSR.
to prevent its development. The USA, which implements this prevention with containment policies; He supported countries such as Turkey, Greece and Iran through various aid plans and memberships to organizations and protected them from the expansionism of the USSR.
In the unipolar world order that started in 1991 and lasted until 2001, the USA used the benefits of globalization for its own benefit, failed to realize the fair, equal and inclusive sharing of the economic wealth created by capitalism with the collapse of communism, and became one of the main reasons for the emergence of new jihadist terrorist organizations. In 2001, the USA, which was not attacked on its own soil even during the world wars, was startled by the attacks on its heart by terrorists using hijacked planes and led the world to a new order. On the one hand, states led by the USA and on the other hand, states that are claimed to support terrorism and terrorist organizations have returned to bipolarity, neorealism policies have been implemented with the concept of counter-terrorism, and ten-year neoidealism has been destroyed.
As a result of this bipolar world order that lasted until 2011, after the popular movements against terrorism and oppressive regimes, first the Arab Spring and then the Syrian crisis, which would affect the whole world, occurred. The USA's turning the anti-terrorism period into a struggle by using terrorism, and its desire to control and weaken the countries that could compete with it through terrorism, caused proxy wars and the world order to evolve into multipolarity. The period of the states' struggle against terrorism together has been interrupted due to the USA's desire to protect its own hegemony and prioritizing its own interests and interests, terrorism has changed its size and name and has resurfaced as a crime against humanity.
In the cold peace period, that is, in this new world order that started with Obama, continued with Trump and reached its peak with Biden, not only the USA, but also all global and regional powers were able to use whatever non-state organization, organization, force, whatever they were, without fighting among themselves. For their own interests, if necessary, they started to set them against each other, that is, to make their proxies fight.
Cold peace has been the primary policy used by global powers all over the world and regional powers in their own regions.
The main policy of states in the cold peace period;
- Penetrating into crisis zones by using terrorism, freedom fighters, or forces in power,
- to make his proxies fight and
- It can be summarized as staying away from absolute conflict among themselves.
The biggest problem in this period is the power struggle in crisis areas. While regional powers close to the crisis area do not hesitate to interfere with all non-state entities that may pose a problem for their own security, global powers provide all kinds of support to non-state entities that serve their own interests. This situation between Turkey and the USA in the Syrian crisis is an indication that when the interests of the states in the same alliance do not coincide, they may face a cold peace.
What US policy makers have difficulty in understanding and misunderstood is the evaluation and rating of the effectiveness of each state in its own region. The reason is that they do not understand the logic that every rooster crows in its own garbage. Ignoring this reality and continuing to support terrorist organizations and organizations that commit crimes against humanity will cause great trouble for the United States in the future. Yes, the United States may be a superpower, or even the greatest, but everyone has a home, a backyard, and a neighborhood. There, you cannot implement policies that will harm the residents of the neighborhood. The fact that the USA, which claims to represent the values of the modern world such as democracy, human rights and the rule of law, continues to support terrorism and organizations and formations close to terrorism for its own interests will not be accepted by any country that is negatively affected by this policy and is responsible for its own security. . As these countries have to establish closer relations with each other for their own interests and survival, the USA will become increasingly isolated and other states will It will become an unhappy, ordinary, metasore leader-state whose relations with meat are corrupted. If it continues like this, it is obvious that this leadership will not last long.
This environment of political turmoil and turmoil affects not only the USA, but all states, the defense reflex of other states against this disabled thought and policy of the USA is increasing, anti-US sentiment is gathering around Russia in the political sense and China in the economic sense. Therefore, Russia is the loser of the cold war and the continuing state of the USSR, which benefits most from the cold peace policy implemented by the USA. If the USA does not give up on these wrong policies, does not seek to improve its relations even with the states with which it is in the same alliance, and continues to support terrorist organizations in line with its own interests, it will accelerate the increasing anti-US sentiment in the world, and it will lose its economic leadership to China and its political leadership to Russia. Military and technological power alone is not enough to maintain its status as the world's largest superpower in the future.
