US Magazine: Russian – Turkish conflict escalates

The American magazine “Washington Monthley” said in an article that Russia and Turkey “have just escalated their war on two fronts about which country will have the most prominent role in the Middle East, where they have been competing in this game for a few centuries, but it became more dangerous this week when Russia introduced jet fighters in the Libyan civil war. “

The coronavirus may have closed beauty salons in Texas and Louisiana bars, halted international travel, emptied streets around the world, but it did not stop the war. Rather, Russia and Turkey entered the escalation of a multifaceted proxy war in both Libya and Syria.

And Russians have long memories, they remember when Russia fought the Ottoman Empire in the bloody Crimean War, as well as when the Ottoman forces fought the Tsarist forces in the Black Sea peninsula, where a large number of fighters fell prey to the Asian cholera epidemic.

Turkey won then, but Russia today occupies Crimea again. The Crimean War of the nineteenth century was the crucible in which Russian-Turkish animosities and their imperial dreams were formed in the twenty-first century.

Syria and Libya may look like booby traps, but what is happening in Damascus and Tripoli is worrying, especially in Syria where people in this country suffer greatly from the brutality of the repressive regime and indiscriminate killing, and since 2011, the Syrian version of the Arab Awakening has been quickly eliminated, and images of destruction have emerged. The mass in most of the Syrian cities similar to Berlin after the Second World War.

The only hope for normalcy and peace was in northeastern Syria (with a Kurdish majority) where American forces had a simple but influential presence. The simple American presence was a relatively safe military investment for an active role in the future of the region, where the American presence ensured the safety and security of the strongest anti-IS fighters. In the area.

And what blew up all this, was not a Russian bomb or an incursion of the Syrian forces, what disturbed this American humanitarian effort and the fragile balance of forces was one unexpected phone call from the White House with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and the essence of the conversation, America withdraws, and Turkey is attacked.

The departure of America was an invitation to Turkey to bear costs. It was the life of the Syrians, regional stability, American credibility, the trust of the allies, and the dumping of the region that was relatively quiet in a sea of chaos. With no immediate prospect of lasting peace, Russia and Turkey continue their violent geopolitical game in Syria, and they test each other’s will to seize the power and influence they can afford.

And Moscow and Ankara, which are fighting for influence, oil and the larger Mediterranean footprint, have now launched in North Africa, Libya is the new theater for both countries, and this makes it the ideal location for drug traffickers, migrant smugglers, arms dealers, oil thieves and bandits who terrorize innocent citizens.

Meanwhile, Russia and Turkey support the two sides of the Libyan teams and pretend to mediate a ceasefire, and Vladimir Putin yearns for the days of the Soviet Union, and just as Erdogan yearns for the glory of the lost Ottoman Empire, both leaders face political challenges at home as the crisis of the spread of coronavirus outbreak throughout the two countries, and during a period Shutdown, there is no better fun for defaulted leaders than a foreign war they are entertaining.