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IFJ-INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF JOURNALİST What are the key characteristics that differs Trump from his opponents? How does his presidency relate to the rise of a multipolar world? What direction will his policies on West Asia, Türkiye and Syria take, and what factors will shape them? What steps has the Turkish government taken so far, and what should it do next? UWI author historian and political scientist Associate Professor Mehmet Perinçek analyzed these questions for our website. —— What paved the way for Trump? The most important aspect of Trump’s foreign policy for us is his opposition to the globalists. What does Trump say now? He says, “Instead of using our energy, resources, and money to impose order on the world, let’s focus on solving the problems at home and in our own region”. It’s also crucial to highlight the role of global resistance in bringing the United States and Trump to this point. I mean, it is not that one-day, Trump woke up and said, “Let’s turn inward or we’ve already spent so much money and resources in Afghanistan and the Middle East.” Global developments, such as the shift of the world economy towards the Pacific and Eurasia, the failure of the U.S.’s unipolar world project, the strengthening of the multipolar world, and the emergence of multipolar world organizations like the Shanghai Cooperation Organization as centers of attraction and power, all played a key role. Trump’s Türkiye policy: The incoming confrontation The oppressed and developing world At the same time, many of the US’s plans, from Taiwan to Ukraine, also Great Kurdistan Project and the Greater Middle East Project faced failure. The strength and unity of the oppressed and developing world forced the US to acknowledge the reality of the world. The reality of a multipolar world was forced upon the US, and as a result, Trump’s ideas gained more ground, or rather, those ideas became inevitable for Trump. If we look back at Trump’s first term, he had similar ideas, but he wasn’t able to implement them as much. Some steps or ideas were brought forward, but they couldn’t be put into practice much. This was because the balance of power within the US and in the world were different at that time. Now, those balances have shifted, making Trump’s arguments more valid. Russia’s operation in Ukraine, played a significant role in this. The US’s plan to encircle Russia through Ukraine suffered a major blow. China, of course, has not only strengthened its economy but also achieved more significant military successes. The US had a shameful end to its involvement in Afghanistan, a disaster. I mean, the images of people running to escape by plane were seen by the whole world. All of this made Trump’s ideas even stronger. Of course, the state of the economy also played a crucial role. The US fell deeper into debt. In the Western and the Atlantic press, there’s not a single day when the alarm bells aren’t ringing about the US’s debt. Forget about the media writing about it, even Trump and Elon Musk every day talk about how many millions of dollars the US owes, and they express serious concerns about it. The US couldn’t suffocate or isolate Russia with economic sanctions. On the contrary, sanctions on Russia hit the West harder while Russia found much better and new partnerships in Eurasia. The Russia-China relationship has grown stronger, in terms of military, political, and economic cooperation. Together, they gained power against dollar hegemony. All of this created a more favorable environment for Trump to implement his policies or ideas, compared to his first term. So now that Trump is back in power, he will take certain steps regarding Ukraine. That’s obvious. Negotiations between Russia and the US will start. How positively these talks will progress and whether they’ll lead to a quick peace is something that only time will tell. But at least now there’s a counterpart for Russia to sit down and negotiate with in the US. This wasn’t possible with the globalists or with Biden’s team. So, we’ll see certain developments in Ukraine in the coming days. And also, Trump is not taking as aggressive a stance on China as he did in his first term. He has to be more realistic about that. And this is really important: He has no choice but to be realistic. Why? Because China, with its economy, military, and international alliances, showed that it wasn’t going to fall victim to the US. In fact, China developed its relations even further in West Asia, the Black Sea, Africa, and various other regions. It became a country capable of intervening in policies and providing solutions. The idea to first isolate China, and then to confront with Russia didn’t work out in Trump’s first term. Now, in his second term, Russia-China relations have become much stronger. For this reason, it seems that Trump won’t be able to approach China with the same aggression or bluntness he did before. Trump’s W