There is no longer a Syria war. There is no longer a fight in which Syrians are a side, which can be outlined with the future of the Syrian people and nation. There is nobody other than Turkey who cares about Syrians, Syria’s integrity or existence anyway. There is nobody making sacrifices or showing loyalty to assist the Syrian people, to support them, to share their pain, or to help them return to normalcy either. No country other than Turkey cares in a “humanitarian” manner, nobody comprehends the notion of the oppressed, and nobody is mourning those massacres.

There is no such issue for Iran. It is only concerned about map efforts, moves to expand to the Mediterranean coasts, and clearing the path to greater massacres to form a bigger area of action for itself. It is only concerned about reaching the Mediterranean coasts just as it reached Yemen; it cares only about its imperial ambitions. The massacres it is responsible for in Aleppo, its attacks based on its sectarian identity and opportunistic outbursts are like a ruthless history book.

As for Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and some Arab countries, they couldn’t care less if all of Syria is destroyed. They have been acting as the Western occupation’s leading forces for the last three decades. Through this role, they destroyed Iraq, Syria and Libya. They are the leaders of regional occupation, and the forces and countries who call the foreign troops to these lands.

They act in the name of the U.S., U.K. and Israeli intelligence. They use the region’s resources as a bribe to protect their power, and take on “characterless” roles for the Western occupation to settle in Muslim lands. Look at Mohammed bin Salman’s last one month; this region has never before seen such lack of foresight, such a characterless mission.

The role assumed by Saudi Arabia and the UAE is the same as the role assumed by Daesh in terms of its nature. Both those countries and Daesh were constructed to pave the way for invasion.

Now they are working with all their might to move the U.S., Europe and Israel to Syrian lands, and to have the entire country invaded. They are the Lawrences of the 21st century. Those who moved the British a century ago are, a century later, moving the U.S. and all of the West to these lands.

From now on, every step, every move and every attempt is of a regional nature and part of a global showdown. Through Syria, the worlds are settling their scores, going up against each other, gauging each other. They are preparing for a big war, building fronts and positions.

All of the earth’s showdowns and countries’ fights are done through Syria. Great allocation plans are done through their lives. Resources are plundered through their blood. Our countries are being divided, our cities are turned into ruins, our people are being slaughtered and whatever is Muslim is trying to be pushed outside history.

Pay attention to the new front that formed through Syria in the last week. Those who are conducting a global power war are gauging each other through Syria, determining fronts and positions and making preparations for a major clash.

Yes, the U.S., France, Israel, the UAE and Saudi Arabia may restart the Syria war. They may open a great front from the West and the south. They may wipe off the rest of the country from the map with heavy air bombardments. Of course, meanwhile, they may clamp down on Turkey from the north again.

But this is not going to be the Syria war. It is going to be starting a sort of doomsday storm. The storm is going to hit Eastern Europe, inside Europe, the Baltics, the Caucasus, stretch out to South Asia and emerge as a second big front in the Asia Pacific.

This is the critical picture. The real war is the sharp showdown between the East and the West. It is in some way a world war. From now on, we will see new Syrias of the sub-elements and fronts of this great showdown. New countries will fall victim and be dragged into the clash and thrown into the fire. You can find which countries will be the earth’s new victims by tracing the East-West fault lines. Wherever this fault line is broken, that is the place that will become Syria.

What we see as the U.K.-Russia fight, the spy and diplomat crisis, and the calls of war made on Twitter by leaders who have assumed the “troll” mission are actually the signs of a great storm that is approaching step by step, which no country or international institution can stop.

The U.K. and Russia, Europe and Russia, and the U.S. and Russia are going to clash in the Baltics, but they are gauging each other on the “Syria front.” You best believe that soon, Russia will not only be Russia, almost all Asian forces will take action against the West, that China will be positioned in the back, and that a doomsday front spanning Europe and Asia be formed.

The world has never seen such great danger. The stress that accumulated in the last 30 years has taken such a dangerous state that one morning it can take dozens of countries to the front. There are no more powers or a will that call to common sense or reverse this course. The world that has turned into a toy in the hands of crazy people like U.S. President Donald Trump is being dragged toward a doomsday war that is shaped by the U.K.’s new world war mind and that is provoked by some brainless people in our region and inflamed by booty plans through the world’s sources.

The first step of a world war is being taken in Syria. We will see where and how it will continue. But we very well know that it will never be limited to Syria or to the Middle East. A storm like this is going to completely change the world’s equilibrium. It is going to entirely change the course of history, and the power map.

After a storm like that, some of the countries that are currently steering the world may be pushed outside of history, and the West’s centuries-long global dominance may end. This storm will look nothing like World War I and II, and as much as it can signify a clash for the West, it can also mean the end of history for the West.

Turkey is obliged to prepare for such a disaster. It is obligatory to engage in an extraordinary defense preparation, power investment, public state of alert, strengthening of the state’s central power domain, giving no chance to “native operators,” and quickly closing all room for outside invasion.

I personally believe that this disaster is going to make our country pay a heavy price too, but it will allow Turkey to make a historic leap as well. As long as this preparation is made, and the steps to be taken when all hell breaks loose in the region are determined from now.

Hence, we need to act fast in Afrin and definitely form a “Turkey shield” stretching from the Mediterranean to the Iranian border. Otherwise, the Syria war will turn into an Anatolia war – this is what they want and have been planning for anyway.

In this period, we call the things we have to do, our stance and discourse, “Relentless Resistance.” We are going to act with our political gene that reaches today all the way back from the Seljuk Empire, and we are going to defend with offensives. We are going to overcome this just like we negated all the multinational interventions that followed one after the other in the last five years.

We are going to come out of this stronger. As long as we can read the approaching storm well.