
The most powerful state to emerge from World War II was the United States, that’s very clear. As a natural consequence, they created brand-new balances based on their own algorithms. They portrayed Soviet Russia and communism as the enemy, and whenever the countries they controlled drifted off course, they brought them back into orbit with the threat of communism. The world was being ruled by two poles, and no third force was allowed to emerge.
The Illusion of Soviet Power and the Manufactured Communist Threat
While the Soviet Union did not even have the power to rival the U.S., let alone compete with the economic size of any three or five U.S. states, it was portrayed as the second biggest power in the world after the U.S., and communism was shown as a great threat to European and Middle Eastern countries. What’s even more interesting is that these countries accepted and took this thesis seriously, which was truly a form of mass delusion. Even in a country like Turkey, which had absolutely no connection to communism, it was presented as the greatest threat. It was beyond belief, yet all of this happened. Whether we accept it or not, the world was governed based on these balances for over half a century.
By the late 90s, the balances established after World War II were shaking, and pressure on the centers of power was increasing. When the date was September 11, 2001, perhaps the biggest and most unusual terrorist attack in world history occurred, as the Al-Qaeda organization, led by Osama Bin Laden, hijacked two passenger planes and crashed them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York.
9/11: A Turning Point in U.S. Foreign Policy and the Battle for Oil
The planes struck the towers from precisely calculated angles, and the towers, filled with people of nearly every nationality, collapsed after successive explosions. A third plane crashed into the Pentagon building in Washington, D.C., and a fourth plane, according to reports, crashed into rural Pennsylvania, about 240 kilometers away, following a struggle between passengers and the terrorists. In total, 2,974 innocent U.S. civilians lost their lives in these events.
Thinking that such a flawless and highly coordinated attack could be carried out by a terrorist organization, regardless of its name or origin, would be, to put it kindly, naïve. In fact, a poll conducted by ‘The New York Times’ revealed that three out of every four Americans believed their government was not telling the truth about the 9/11 events, proving that I am not alone in my skepticism. A force powerful enough to crash two passenger planes into two skyscrapers in the heart of New York, where even a bird can’t fly without permission, pressed the button and announced that all balances would be overturned. The carefully chosen name of the organization, the country it originated from, and the frequently emphasized Islamic motifs were just the dressing on the dish.
After the 9/11 attacks, U.S. foreign policy entered a whole new phase, and the U.S. military officially established a presence in the Middle East. Chuck Hagel, former U.S. Secretary of Defense, was a very important figure. He had been groomed by a deep faction of the U.S. since childhood. Hagel said the following about the invasion of Iraq: “We care about oil, and we fight for it. We are in Iraq for a very important reason.” This statement alone is powerful enough to understand the world’s balances and to explain the chaos in our region. Wars would never end in the Middle East because the U.S. wanted to control the world’s energy resources. The homeland of oil was the Middle East and Africa.
To be continued…
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