What will the West do now?

 

What will the West do now?

 

To tell the truth, we have all noticed that something has been going on in NATO for quite some time now! There is a problem at the eastern edge of the Alliance and the problem is called Turkey! The West's 16th century A.D. bulwark against Russia's expansionism is no longer working.

Important published texts (articles, books, etc.) point, in one way or another, to the above-mentioned issue. It is worth mentioning here some of the most authoritative such texts, for example: The important post, titled as, "Has Turkey Become an American Foe?" of the great and authoritative 'The National Interest' which is a leading forum for US foreign policy thought leaders, which includes a really interesting view, the also interesting approach in the book "Never Give An Inch" by Mr. Mike Pompeo, Former CIA Director and US Secretary of State, where, among other issues, he also deals with the US-Turkey relationship, the ECONOMIST Special Report entitled "Turkey's Looming Dictatorship", where it is pointed out, aptly, that a flawed democracy could tip into full-blown autocracy and other publications.

Well, Turkey is what it has always been, throughout the centuries. Anyone who knows history and looks back at the historical data will find some Mongol tribes that started in the depths of the East and have always tried to advance towards Europe with conquests, wreaking havoc. These are the Turks.

But the question today is how the West will behave. The West, which again based on historical documentation, over time, has shown a fearful attitude towards Russia's expansionist intentions, and as a result, has tried to use Turkey (formerly the Ottoman Empire) as a bulwark against Russia. The culmination of this hastily misguided Western policy was that in the 15th century, it allowed a Christian Empire, the Byzantine Empire, to be replaced by a Muslim Empire, the Ottoman Empire.

The question, then, is: What will the West do now?

First and foremost, it is worth reading in the book “Better the Turkish sari than the Papal tiara” by Anthony Dernellis (available on all Amazon platforms), all the historical documentation you need to understand exactly what the West's responsibilities were in the replacement of the Christian Byzantine Empire in the East by the Muslim Ottoman Empire. In this book, you may find all the historical documentation you need to understand exactly what the West's responsibilities were in the replacement of the Christian Byzantine Empire in the East by the Muslim Ottoman Empire.

In fact, the West has a guilty history of responding to the former Ottoman Empire and the current Turkish state. The West's responsibilities and intentions have been mainly as follows:

·       once it was clear that the Christian Byzantine Empire was to be replaced by a Muslim, that is, the Ottoman Empire

·     and then, in the 16th century, when Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (1520-1566), although no friend of Christendom, was considered by the leaders of the Great Powers of the West at that time, namely Henry VIII of England, Francis of France and Charles V of Spain (Holy Roman Emperor), that he deserved to rank as fourth of the sixteenth-century princes of Europe, precisely because the Ottoman Empire served the West as an important bulwark against Russian aggrandizement

·       note that Suleiman after playing the game of opportunistic Francis who encouraged him to resume his advance on Charles's capital, Vienna, he was stopped after 1526 from any further advance into the West and turned back to Constantinople- and much later on (late 18th to early 20th century) when the fear of Russian expansionism, which was even then one of the Great Powers, made the other two, mainly, Great Powers of the West - England and Austria-Hungary - boycott the only solution for the decadent Ottoman Empire, which was the dissolution of the Eastern part of the Ottoman Empire, which became the present Turkish state, as, of course, the Western part of the Ottoman Empire, which bordered Western Europe, was also dissolved to form the Balkan states.

Therefore, the issue is not what Turkey has done, is doing, and intends to do, but what the West will do this time!