Yesterday PRP Channel has broadly treated in an editorial NATO in the light of the new global strategy of the US and the difficulty in relating with Turkey, considered by the "bivalent" analysts.
It was a coincidence that during the same day Donald Trump, in reference to the Turkish ambitions on Syrian Kurds of the Ypg, flooded the network with poisonous "tweets", as always not agreed with his closest government collaborators, especially the "guru" of foreign policy the Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo.
Trump: "We will devastate Turkey economically, if it hits the Kurds".
Pompeo, who was in Saudi Arabia, urged by journalists, suggested that they ask the head of the White House what he meant. Pompeo had also already met with Turkish foreign minister Cavusoglu to negotiate a compromise, in order to create a 20-mile buffer zone. The Kurds in the urban centers where they are located and the Turks in the countryside. Trump's tweet apparently has shuffled the cards again.
Therefore, the reaction of Turkey is rapid.
The Foreign Minister of Ankara, Mviut Cavusoglu: "You do not go anywhere, threatening Turkey economically. We will not be intimidated or stopped by any threat. Strategic alliances should not be discussed via Twitter, but this is probably a statement for internal use to respond to its critics ".
President Erdogan's spokesman: "Terrorists can not be your partners or allies".
As reported by La Stampa, in the message Trump wanted to give four messages:
- if ISIS reforms, the US will continue to attack it from a nearby base, presumably in Iraq.
- Turkey will be economically devastated if it hits the Ypg Kurds, who fought with the Americans to defeat the Caliphate and were considered by Ankara to be terrorists as a Pkk emanation.
- it is necessary to create a buffer zone of 20 miles to guarantee the security of the Turks, and the Kurds must refrain from provoking them.
- the natural enemies Russia, Iran and Syria were the main beneficiaries of the US intervention to destroy the Islamic State, "but we too have benefited from it and now the time has come to bring the troops home".
In the whole affair it should not be overlooked that Turkey is also a member of NATO and that the US threat is being first directed against an ally. The mutation of the Transatlantic Organization is probably already under way, where national interests outweigh the constitutive spirit of the Alliance itself, which probably needs to be revisited in the light of the new challenges of the 21 century.