Great powers, regional powers, local powers, and non-state actors are
all playing a traditional game with new rules in the MENA region. With a new
decade of traditional competition, all of them (particularly the United States,
Russia, Turkey, and Iran) are operating in the same strategic vacuum as the
failed states of the Middle East, where real realism could be found.
A few days earlier, a summit in Tehran aimed to cool the triple
competition in the Levant among Russia, Iran, and Turkey. That has always been
in advance of facilitating them in moving to a new stretching phase in their
interests in new fields (using both soft and hard power), with the Levant as
their playground.
To perceive this traditional competition, foreign powers' tactic in the
MENA has been based on proxy wars via local agencies (corruption totalitarian
regimes, sectarian militias, armed mercenaries, ideological culture), with a
few direct military interventions.
These powers are unable to fully control their tools, so they allow them
to roam freely in local failed societies with one condition: do not target the
other competitors.
Where there are no real opportunities for life and stability, gun-culture has spread, and it is one of the threats to the region's future.
Thus, Russia, Iran, and Turkey took advantage of the summit to build
guardrails among their spheres of influence in the Levant, using the people as
a shield to protect their interests. For that, one aspect of the competition
revolves around attracting an audience in this regard.
ABD ALQADER NANAA
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