The end of the Cold War was first interpreted as the triumph of the West as the representative of democracy. As if overflowing from a dam, citizens of the Eastern bloc were thrown into confusion by their belated meeting with the fruits of the world. The rise of nuclear disarmament and the process of transition of the Eastern European states to democracy strengthened the Western triumph. The integration of the Eastern bloc's member states into global trade increased the world's trade volume and extended the circulation of labor and capital around the globe.
Apart from that course of events, the United States and its "new world order" did not benefit from the unipolar international system. Getting rid of the depressing competition of the Cold War, U.S. foreign policy has begun to signify an unlawful and unjust position in international relations in general and the United Nations in particular.
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the U.S. was no longer required to legitimize their occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan through the consent of the U.N. Relying on a fake allegation over Saddam Hussein's ownership of chemical weapons, the U.S. invaded Iraq, which was then condemned to chaos and war. Through the establishment of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in 2002, the U.S. bypassed the rule of law by imprisoning and torturing people arrested as "criminals" by the Bush administration. Such an unlawful and arbitrary attitude from the U.S., which did not require the consent of any international law, soon infected the rest of the world.
With the occupation of Iraq, the Syrian civil war, the issues of hunger, poverty and massacres of civilian populations, the emergence of massive refugee movements, all traditional and novel types of atrocious crimes, and the rise of militia forces and their mass slaughters, our world has already become a gloomy and sorrowful reality.
What is worse, a new mentality of war has emerged in the Syrian civil war in which the military forces of al-Assad and the Iranian militia forces are now treating all the people of Aleppo as terrorists. Nazi military officers rise from their graves in the disguise of Iranian mullahs who repeat the ferocious methods of war used by Daesh through their Shiite militia forces. Committing all types of atrocious crimes, Daesh is a machine of murder and massacre that was created and manipulated by the intelligence activities of hidden global forces. The Assad regime, Iran and the U.S. greatly benefited from the existence of Daesh. Their regions of control are gradually left to the control of Kurds and Shiite militia forces at the end of which the demographic structure of the Sunni lands have drastically changed. The overall oppression on civilians in the Anbar region of Iraq and in Syria's city of Aleppo reminds us of the holocaust of the Nazi regime.
When Serbians slaughtered thousands of Muslims in Bosnia, many were putting the blame on Christianity. Today, Iran as a Muslim country sheds Muslim blood with impunity; waging a war without regard for basic human rights and the international laws of war was the norm of the Nazi regime.
The Shiite militia under the leadership of Iranian generals is committing atrocious crimes against humanity every day, while Russia continues to bomb civilian populations in Syria.
In short, the unlawful and illegitimate foreign policy of the U.S. after the end of the Cold War triggered the emergence of the genocidal military strategy of Daesh and Iran. Particularly in Aleppo, it is as if Adolf Hitler has come back from the dead as an Iranian mullah.
About the author
İhsan Aktaş is Chairman of the Board of GENAR Research Company. He is an academic at the Department of Communication at Istanbul Medipol University.
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