Turkey’s Rise and the Collapse of U.S. Middle East Strategy. [1]
professor Mearsheimer.
For decades, Washington believed it could shape the Middle East according to its own image, install allies, deter adversaries, and preserve a fragile order through force and diplomacy. But history has a way of humbling hubris. Today, that carefully constructed order is unraveling. And standing at the center of this transformation is Turkey. A state once treated as a loyal NATO outpost, now emerging as a self- assured regional power with ambitions far beyond the alliance's script. Ankara no longer takes orders. It writes them. From Syria to the Caucasus, from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, Turkish influence is expanding where American power is receding. This is not a story of betrayal. It is the logic of shifting power, the essence of Real Politic. What we are witnessing is the collapse of US strategy in a region it once dominated and the ascent of a state that has learned how to exploit the cracks in the American led order.
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