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This time the US task is really hard. President Donald Trump just drags his country into the cliff like a truck that does not hold the brake. Deep anxiety and panic in the economy began to show itself more intensively in foreign policy. The unplanned and unscheduled understanding roughly based on brute force is coming to an end. The US, in addition to losing “reliability” and “respect” throughout the world, is now a “losing actor”, whose “deterrence” also raises doubts…

The “Hollow bravado” which started with the “Referendum Crisis” in northern Iraq on September 25, 2016 and became more evident by the Syrian-Astana process, “magnificent loneliness” in the context of Qatar-Saudi Arabia and the false Jerusalem decision, the “Humiliation” faced in Lebanon has entered a new dimension with “Two Koreas”.

It is the number one agenda item in terms of the whole world that the handshake of North Korea, which served to consolidate US power with the threat of nuclear war in the Far East and South Asia region, and South Korea, which has taken a covered activities on behalf of this country in the US surrounding of China and in important geography, including the Central Asia-based Eurasian Geography.

It is a mystery for now how the end of the procession comes, but it is very important to take this step and it is extremely disturbing for the USA. In a word, this is a geopolitically-strategic depression in terms of the US!  Particularly, South Korea’s exit from the US orbit is very important. How? Then let’s explain…

First of all, one of the important instruments of intervention in the hands of the US is on the verge of getting out of control. More specifically, the US will not be able to use the North Korean threat as easily as it used to. This is equivalent to the large-scale withdrawal of US influence over regional states, particularly South Korea; because there is no need for the US security umbrella.

Furthermore, the US is at risk of losing South Korea. The U.S. will have lost a very serious ally in the region; Pakistan, Turkey and this loss after the “Gulf” that is not currently on the agenda, put “The American Empire” into a deep power of weakness. As the state/power enterprises that could take their place and replace them (such as GMEP Kurdistan, Balochistan) have not been realized until now, the experienced fiasco has led to boomerang effects…

The loss of South Korea and more generally, the “Korean card” is the equivalent of the great failure of the process in which the US is trying to surround the China and form a new alliance in the region, hence the game in which it tries to establish in the region.

Can the “United Korea” become a new regional power?

Moreover, the US may have prepared a new opponent, the birth of a power to challenge him, as a result of the wrong policies pursued in the region. Because developments point to the formation of a new regional power in the Far East; if this will can be sustained…

The emergence of a new nuclear-technological power in the region will undoubtedly be the equivalent of narrowing the US maneuvering area. Here, the combination of the different technological capacity-superiorities that “Two Koreas” have and the dynamic human factor supporting it, and especially the strong economic infrastructure that South Korea has will bring a new impetus to the big game.

It’s important that the two Korean leaders get together because of all these sorted and unordered reasons. In this context, North Korea or the “The Incident of Koreas” can be considered an important blow to the US.

On the other hand, also the question of great importance is: who or what is behind this process? Is it the US, China or someone else? Backing of North Korea by China and South Korea by the US are so far known to be…

The emerging scene for the moment does not seem to be in favour the US, so it is unlikely that the US is behind this process. Accordingly the eyes are pointing to China, China-Russia couple or others. The fact that the world is divided into “US” and “US opponents” is very important here under the current circumstances.

In a more tangible expression, we see that the most effective strategy developed against this power by “US opponents” is to deprive it of the resources it feeds. This leads us directly to the crises, wars and their solutions in the earth. Countries all over the world, including the Syria-based “Astana Process” launched in the Middle East, tend to solve their own problems. So the Korean incident could be a part of it…

Prof. Dr. Mehmet Seyfettin EROL
Prof. Dr. Mehmet Seyfettin EROL
Born in 1969, Dörtyol-Hatay, Prof. Dr. Mehmet Seyfettin Erol graduated from Boğaziçi University (BU), Department of Political Science and International Relations in 1993. After completing his master's degree at BU in 1995, Erol was accepted to the PhD program at BU in the same year. After completing his PhD at Ankara University in 2005, Erol became an associate professor in the field of “International Relations” in 2009 and a professor in 2014. Erol worked at the Eurasian Center for Strategic Studies (ASAM) between 2000 and 2006 and and served as the General Coordinator of ASAM for a period. In 2009, he served as also Founding Chairman and Board Member of the Institute for Strategic Thinking (SDE). He is also the Founding President of the Center for International Strategy and Security Studies (USGAM) and the President of the International Relations Institute of the New Türkiye Strategic Research Center (YTSAM). Prof. Erol has also served as the Director of Gazi University Strategic Research Center (GAZISAM). In 2007, Prof. Erol received the “Turkish World Service Award” from the Writers and Artists Foundation of the Turkic World (TÜRKSAV), and has received numerous awards for his academic work and his activities in the media. Some of them can be listed as follows: 2013 “Print Media of the Year Award” by the Association of Contemporary Democrats, 2015 “APM 10th Year Service Award”, “2015 Press-Intellectual of the Year Award” by the Writers' Union of Türkiye (YTB), “2016 Volunteer Ambassadors Media Honor Award” by the Anatolian Village Guards and Martyrs' Families, “2016 Türkiye Honor Award” by the Yoruk Turkmen Federations. Prof. Erol has 15 book studies. The names of some of them are as follows: “The United States of Turks from Dream to Reality”, “Türkiye-EU Relations: Foreign Policy and Internal Structure Problems”, “The New Great Game in Eurasia”, “The Search for Strategy in Turkish Foreign Policy”, “The Search for Security in Turkish Foreign Policy”, “The Republic of Türkiye-Russian Federation Relations”, “The Cold Organization of Hot Peace: The New NATO”, “Theoretical Approaches in Foreign Policy Analysis: The Case of Turkish Foreign Policy”, “Crises and Crisis Management: Actors and Case Studies”, “Kazakhstan” and “Current Issues in International Relations”. Since 2002, Prof. Erol, who has carried out radio programs such as “Eurasia Agenda”, “Strategic Perspective”, “Global Perspective”, “Analysis”, “File”, “News Desk”, “The Other Side of the Agenda” on TRT Türkiye's voice and TRT Radio 1 (Ankara Radio), made the programs “Arayış” on TRT INT television between 2004-2007, “Beyond the Border” on Kanal A television between 2007-2010 and “Foreign Policy Agenda” on BBN TÜRK television in 2020-2021. Prof. Erol, whose foreign policy column “Arayış” was published in Milli Gazete between 2012-2018, is consulted for his expertise in numerous national and international media outlets such as television, radio, newspapers, news websites and magazines. Prof. Erol, who also taught at Gazi University Department of International Relations and Ankara University Latin American Studies Center (LAMER) between 2006-2018, has been continuing his academic career as a faculty member at Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University Department of International Relations since 2018. Since 2006, Prof. Erol has also taught in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Ufuk University. The main areas of interest and expertise of Prof. Erol and the titles of his courses at the undergraduate, master's and doctoral levels in this area are as follows: “Geopolitics”, “Security”, “Intelligence”, “Crisis Management”, “Current Issues in International Relations”, “Turkish Foreign Policy”, “Russian Foreign Policy”, “US Foreign Policy” and “Central Asia and South Asia”. Prof. Erol, whose articles-evaluations have been published in many journals and newspapers, has been editor of academic journals such as “Eurasia File”, “Strategic Analysis”, “Strategic Thinking”, “Gazi Regional Studies”, “The Journal of SSPS”, “Black Sea Studies”. He is currently in the editorial boards of “Regional Studies,” “International Crisis and Political Research,” “Gazi Academic View”, “Ege University Turkish World Surveys”, “Ankara International Social Sciences”, “Democracy Platform”. Prof. Erol, who has been working as the Founding President of the Ankara Center for Crisis and Political Studies (ANKASAM) since 2016, is married and has three children.