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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.

Geopolitics

The Coercive Calculus: How US Tariff Policy Weaponizes Trade Against Sovereign Strategy

The United States is using its trade and tariff policies as instruments of coercive leverage, conditioning market access on alignment with its economic-security priorities and effectively transforming international trade into a tool for modern-day geopolitical and economic alignment. This blatant economic coercion represents the very neo-colonial imposition that the Global South, including resilient nations like Turkey, must vigorously reject to protect their strategic sovereignty and developmental autonomy.