A tiny virus also shakes the balances in the world.
Curfews, the mask that enters our lives, the order of working from home, what we experience individually.
On a country basis, the effect of the pandemic has shown itself as an economic shrinkage in the world.
Not for nothing, the price of oil drops to zero or even minus units. The IMF has announced that the economic contraction may exceed 3 percent worldwide. This is the biggest contraction in the world economy since the great depression of the early 1900s.
Of course, the effect of this on world politics has started to be seen.
The effect seems to bring all the big / small players in the world arena to reduce their targets by at least one scale, to pursue the greatest effect with the least expense.
Russia, for example;
He ended the conflict order in Syria and started to give the first signs of the transition to the political plane. Russia’s Ambassador to Damascus, Aleksandr Efimov, has been appointed as the “President’s special representative on developing ties with Syria”.
What we need to understand from the expression “ties developing with Syria” means that Russia is more visible in the economic field in this country. In this respect, it is necessary to read the new restrictions and tax obligations that Bashar Assad has brought to the handful of big holding bosses that have been eating the country’s skins for years, especially his cousin Rami Mahluf. It seems that Russia is planning to take down the waste and corruption in Syria and then settle in the Syrian economy. The main purpose is to be the most effective power in the reconstruction of Syria with Arab money. Oil and natural gas exploration licenses granted to Russia in the part of the Mediterranean falling in Syria are of course the bonus.
Russia’s attitude in Libya, the second largest conflict region in the world, is similar;
On the one hand, he never loses his official ties with the Sarrac government in Tripoli, on the other hand, he provides Hafter with legionary support, with arms and ammunition. Now, Russian fighter jets, which were sent from Syria to Libya, also came into play. But information leaked that the planes would be “used by legionary pilots, not by Russian pilots”. Thus, Hafter will be provided with air support, and the impression that “Russia has not entered into direct conflict” can be given against the Sarrac government. This is the biggest effect with the least possible cost.
– From the US perspective;
Along with the epidemic, the contraction in the world economy seems to have fueled President Trump’s “closure” strategy. The USA has greatly withdrawn its troops in Afghanistan. It is shrinking its military presence day by day in Iraq. American soldiers are already holding the oil-rich region of the country with a few hundred soldiers in Syria.
The USA has “tender” the “task” of weakening Russian and Iranian influence in other parts of Syria to the PYD-YPG, the extension of the PKK terrorist organization, with its enthusiastic NATO ally.
Just as Russia plays “bilaterally” in Libya, the USA gives sherbet to every pulse in Syria; From the Euphrates to the east extension of the PKK weapons restructuring drugs, military training, technical support until almost “yağdırırken that,” giving the shoulders of Turkey’s theses in Idlib.
The situation of the USA is not very different in Libya; Hafter is a Libyan soldier who worked for the USA for years as a salary at the CIA. In other words, he has “hard wearing ties” with Washington.
The same Washington, on the other hand, explains that the Sarrac government in Tripoli “needs to be addressed”.
Washington itself does not directly provide money / materials / education to the Sarrac government; Libyan money and materials from taxes the citizens of the Republic of Turkey “oil of” standing behind the AKP government, remarks “patting his shoulder.”
In short, the two countries of the world, the USA and Russia, which are considered as the most effective powers in the world, are pursuing “the biggest effect with the least cost” in the conflict regions.
Interesting;
These two countries have set up such a “chess board” in Syria and Libya, no matter which side wins, they are already guaranteed to be on the table.
Those who did not see this game and invested in one side in the conflict areas in a way that can;
For those who think of being a big state as “making an oath of speech”;
Unfortunately, falling on this established “chess table” does not go beyond being a pawn…
