Why U.S. Policymakers Should Prefer Turan and Türkiye Over India and China
In the small hours you wonder about these sorts of things:
Might a play by the Chinese to genetically sequence everyone on the planet be linked to their concerns about foreigners invading from over the steppe?
Might the Chinese obsession with self-driving cars be a more deeply embedded concern over the horse itself?
How will the Turkish intelligence services, which arrested 33 in a plot to assassinate alleged Hamas fighters on Turkish soil, respond to Mossad’s provocation?
Is the withdrawal of the U.S. aircraft carrier from the Middle East and the announcement of a Turkish one linked to a changing balance of power in the Mediterranean?
And sure enough then you read an article in The Guardian about how the Chinese are trying to turn the Uighurs into the Palestinians and another one in The New Yorker promulgating a revisionism about the steppe people, especially the Mongols.
I recently reconnected with an old teacher of mine who taught about the U.S. in the Modern World over a two-year course. In her telling, modernity began with the Mongol invasions, and I have to say that I’ve come to believe she may well have been on to something. The Mongol Empire arose, in part, thanks to plagues. Sound familiar?
There’s been a lot of focus on S. Korea or Japan. Exports from Korea to the U.S. just displaced exports from Korea to China, for instance, and if you squint you can see the assassination of Abe and the attempted assassination of Lee Jae-myung, the South Korean opposition leader, as part of the same de-Sinophication program.
The Indians are planning to do wetwork in America and bribe American politicians like Nikki Haley. The news that they are a ready consumer of Pegasus and use it to target enemies of the government is disturbing indeed. Some alliance that is!
The future is an uncertain land but I could readily imagine a China which takes fearing a growing India, funded with Russian resources, aligning once more with the United States, provided Xi retires.
Who will open Turkmenistan anyway?
I’d much prefer outsourcing my business to the Kyrgyz than the Indians. Wouldn’t you? Have a look.
Our President gets it. Do you?