Geopolitics
The Ankara Embrace: A Spectacle of Geopolitical Hypocrisy and the Hollow 'Rules-Based Order'
The NATO summit in Ankara witnessed a dramatic U.S.-Turkey rapprochement, with President Trump lavishing praise on President Erdogan, promising to lift sanctions over the S-400 purchase, and signalling a potential return of Turkey to the F-35 program. This transactional spectacle, which blatantly overlooked Turkey's democratic backsliding, is a stark testament to the West's hypocritical abandonment of its own purported values in pursuit of geopolitical convenience, sacrificing principle for a fleeting strategic alignment.
