Jozef Bossuyt | Communist Party of Belgium
The imperialist United States has launched a war against Iran, which immediately developed into a large-scale armed military conflict across West Asia. The war in West Asia, in turn, is accelerating the outbreak of war in East Asia, marking the large-scale escalation of the Third World War.
The Trump faction has now become the principal war criminal force responsible for accelerating the full-scale arrival of the Third World War through imperialist wars of aggression. American chauvinists have now been exposed as unprecedented fascists.
The theaters of operation extend across:
• West Asia: Iran, Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen
• East Asia: China, Korea
• Eastern Europe: Donbass, Russia
• Central America: Venezuela, Cuba
These regions constitute the principal battlefields of the Third World War—the front lines of national and class liberation where the anti-imperialist camp and the imperialist camp confront one another.
The imperialist camp has committed a fatal error by opening multiple theaters simultaneously while failing to secure victory in even a single one of them.
Faced with the collapse of its global hegemony and deepening political and economic crises, the imperialist bloc has provoked the Third World War. Yet this fatal mistake has only accelerated its ultimate downfall. Those who play with fire will perish by fire. The imperialist camp cannot prevail in any of the four major theaters. A united people will never be defeated. The final victory in the Third World War belongs to the anti-imperialist camp.
Turkey’s Ambiguous Foreign Policy
Turkey occupies a complex position in international affairs, serving simultaneously as a member of NATO and as a regional power pursuing its own strategic ambitions.
The country has been a member of NATO since 1952 and played a crucial role as the alliance’s southeastern flank against the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It contributed a large military force and significant military infrastructure, including NATO bases such as Incirlik, which continue to play an important role in operations throughout the Middle East.
At the same time, Turkey has developed its own regional path under the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government led by President Recep Erdoğan. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, Ankara has sought to expand its influence in regions such as Syria, Iraq, the Caucasus, the Balkans, and North Africa. While this influence was initially exercised primarily through economic and cultural means, it increasingly took on a military dimension following the Arab Spring.
The Syrian civil war marked a major turning point. Turkey supported opposition forces against Assad and later became directly involved through military operations in northern Syria, particularly with the objective of limiting Kurdish influence.
The Kurdish issue remains a central driver of Turkish foreign policy. Groups such as the YPG (People’s Protection Units) and their connections to the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) are viewed by Ankara as significant security threats, leading to multiple military interventions in Syria. At the same time, Turkey’s interests have frequently conflicted with those of Iran, which actively supported Assad, and with those of the United States, which relied on Kurdish militias as tactical partners in the campaign against ISIS.
Today, Turkey seeks to navigate these competing interests, as a NATO member, it remains part of the Western alliance, yet it simultaneously pursues an independent and often pragmatic regional strategy.
In its relations with both Israel and Iran, Ankara generally favors caution over direct confrontation. Although Erdoğan consistently voices support for the Palestinian cause in his public rhetoric, Turkey continues to maintain trade relations with Israel.
