Turkish analyst: US follows the path of empire and repeats the fate of Rome

The major Turkish publication Yeni Safak published an article dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. Columnist Abdullah Muradoglu wrote in an article that "those who applauded this invasion in 2003 do not regret it today." This is despite the fact that no declared chemical weapons the Americans never found it in Iraq.

Muradoglu writes that the justification for the invasion was fabricated, "but it didn't matter anymore - Basra and other cities of Iraq were devastated."

Turkish reviewer:

Bush and other neocons (neoconservatives) needed lies to justify the invasion. And when the invasion began, this lie was already circulating in the world.

From the material:

It is inconceivable that the humanitarian catastrophe the US has brought to the unconsciousness of the neocons. For neoconservatives, human loss is an imperative that "American Empire" must endure. They were to bring freedom, peace and democracy to the Iraqi people and build a modern nation. This was also a lie.

The author further cites the Roman historian Tacitus, who spoke of the Roman invasion of the British Isles. In the book of Tacitus there is the words of one of the local leaders:

The marauders of the world scour the seas after having swallowed up all the land. If the enemy is rich, he is robbed, if he is poor, he is surrounded (…) They create a desert and call it "peace".

The Turkish author ends up comparing the Roman and American empires. According to Muradoglu, the United States today is precisely an empire, not a republic. At least, this is how the United States imagined itself, the Turkish analyst notes.

Muradoglu:

Washington follows the path of empire and repeats the fate of Rome.

Therefore, according to the Turkish observer, the US will eventually collapse and decline.

Comments

[Dimy4]

The US will eventually collapse and decline.

Time destroys granite castles and fills cities with sand. How many empires and kingdoms, whose power seemed eternal, are buried under the sand of History!

[sagitovich]

His words, yes to God in the ears! The world sees clearly, it pleases.

[Murmur 55]

sagitovich , do not even hope about the world, nowhere and in nothing does it see clearly.

[blackGRAIL]

An empire (even if it has a form of government - a republic) is a natural path for the development of great states. In this sense, no insight into the world is possible. It's just that one empire will come to replace another. Some day.

[Murmur 55]

Another CAPTAIN OBVIOUSNESS?!
I know, I know the text of my comment.

[aars]

Washington follows the path of empire and repeats the fate of Rome.

He's not the first one who just didn't talk about it.
Which, however, does not affect his correctness

[DMFalke]

The Turk forgets one detail - Rome did not fall by itself And under such pressure, which is applicable to modern times and specifically the United States, is simply not there now. Unless the union of the USSR and then still communist China could do something.
The Turk invites us to wait humbly, maliciously rejoicing in the hope that the United States will collapse on its own. "hooray, we were told that someday the west will fall, hooray comrades." - made a noise and dispersed.

[Murmur 55]

DMFFalke , communist China?! It’s already funny, that communist turned gold and sold himself for nishtyaks and buns, by the way, the question is why the United States fighting communism does not touch China? After all, as stated in Washington (at one time), the United States will ALWAYS and EVERYWHERE fight communism and its spread. And then they allowed Beijing to cut the dough and pump up the "muscle", strange.

[smart_ups]

Rome fell because of its monetary policy and inflated military budget. The so-called "period of cheap money". Doesn't it remind you of anything?

[Poplar]

In general, the reason for the fall of the Roman Empire was a whole range of reasons. Yes, some individual similarities can be identified, but to get the full picture, you need to conduct a very deep analysis. But even this analysis may not provide answers to the question: will the empire fall or not in the near future? By the way, there was more than one Roman Empire in history, there were others. And, as noted above, they all fell. But the reasons for their fall are different, although some points coincide, of course. In general, it is not entirely clear what the author wanted to say: that the US empire will collapse? So there is no doubt about it. As Ropot55 wrote - "Captain obvious."

[evgen1221]

The decision to invade America is driven by the business interests and personal interests of politicians and corporations from different camps of their serpentarium. Many of their adventures fit into either scoring watered points for elections or helping certain corporations (covid is the same). Well, in the footsteps of Rome, they are steadily walking, the degradation of the top, dragging the degradation of the bottom, and the collapse of the entire system. All you need is a push to make it fall. The rejection of the petrodollar or the loss of Europe as an ally and America will crumble, because they have nothing to offer from what is produced in the world without them.

[rotmistr60]

Yes, they deceived the world community about chemical weapons, although many knew that this was an outright lie, but they invaded and ruined the country, and they tried to build "democracy" in the American sense (even idiots tried in Afghanistan), but as always it did not work out. Is this the first country that the United States and its NATO allies have reduced to zero? Behind the Americans is such a trail of international crimes and crimes against humanity that there is nowhere to put stigma. And while getting away with it.

Washington follows the path of empire and repeats the fate of Rome.

I would like this to happen before the United States has time to unleash another world war.