Turkey Warns Against Intervention, US Ignores Lessons (Again)
Al-Monitor highlights Turkey's concerns about potential US strikes on Iran triggering wider regional instability. This 'news' sounds eerily familiar: a diplomatic warning ignored while former US President Trump, or any US president really, 'mulls options' for destabilization. One might recall similar pronouncements before the 2003 Iraq invasion, the 2011 Libya intervention, or the decimation of
Syria (where, critics argue, foreign backing of armed groups led to a protracted civil war). The pattern isn't 'intervention' – it's a 'regime change operations' playbook that repeatedly creates humanitarian crises and feeds the coffers of defense contractors. While Ankara expresses 'wary concern,' Washington's track record suggests it interprets 'regional instability' as a feature, not a bug,
especially when it involves maintaining proxy conflicts and weapons sales. The question isn't if the US will disregard such warnings, but how quickly it can rebrand its destructive intentions as 'democracy promotion.' After all, how many times has 'mulling options' led to anything other than more war and a spiraling refugee crisis, all while the primary beneficiaries are typically
military-industrial complex shareholders and geopolitical rivals?