Wars do not start suddenly one morning.
Maps are drawn years ago. Vulnerabilities are measured with patience.
The nerve endings of societies are noted one by one.
Then one day, it looks like a button has been pushed.
But that button is not new; it is just time.
Today we are talking about Iran.
“Why is he alone?” they say.
“Why isn't there a big global outcry?” one asks.
But perhaps the real question is this:
Is Iran really alone, or is everyone waiting for their own chess move?
Russia is embroiled in its own war.
China, on the other hand, is cautious, deliberately avoiding military engagement that could jeopardize trade routes, economic balances and long-term plans.
Israel puts its security doctrine above all else, and the United States provides strategic support to this equation.
This is the reality of the balance of power. Because crises are also opportunities to readjust the balance.
For years, the maps of countries have been redrawn under the pretext of freedom.
Iraq was bombed with the promise of “democracy”,
Libya was dismembered with the rhetoric of “humanitarian intervention”.
Did freedom come as a result, or did it produce new instability?
In this geography, the method is often similar:
The vulnerabilities of societies are measured.
Sensitivities are analyzed.
Internal fault lines are carefully monitored.
Because modern wars are not only fought on the front line.
War is fought in perception, in the economy, in the sense of insecurity at home.
And
“With the ”you-us" discourses, societies are unwittingly placed on one side of the fault lines.
People whose freedom is taken away are then offered freedom as a gift.
But the freedom that is given as a gift is often the packaging for another addiction.
Therefore, when the future of a society is written in the strategic ledger of other powers, the outcome is often not in favor of the people living there.
The winners of wars are often those who sit at the table and plan. The losers are the people who live on the map.
On a chessboard, the pieces do not talk.
They are driven out.
And the most dangerous thing is this:
Some people who admire the freedom of Europe and talk about the democracy of the United States cannot tolerate the differences of the people they live side by side with in their own country.
The admiration for freedom of those who look down on the colors of belief and ways of life of their own society is disturbing. Because their freedom is not the product of equality, but of an internalized superiority complex. What they call freedom is the ornate showcase of a mind that looks for self-worth in the mirror of others.
But freedom is not about speaking the master's language perfectly; it is about being able to speak without losing your own voice.
Libertarian countries, which are admired as role models, carefully examine the social fault lines of the geographies they intervene in. They do not hesitate to break those fault lines, because breaking them is often the fastest way to establish a new order.
Ethnic tensions, sectarian divisions, class anger, repressed identities...
They are all measured and mapped. And these maps are full of traps.
Most of the time everyone knows where the traps are;
But sometimes people deliberately walk into those traps.
Because the traps are covered with false promises of freedom.
Colonialist minds that want the Western understanding of freedom only for themselves, but ignore the others in their countries, knowingly or unknowingly contribute to the establishment of these traps.
But freedom is not far away, it is right beside us.
But sometimes we are not asked to reach out.
Sometimes someone comes along and repeats the same sequence of words. This phrase is the key to freedom. But for those who can see.
It is like magic.
It sounds like a song.
“Right, law, justice...”
It has a rhythm, it is good to repeat, it settles into you quickly.
It feels good when you say it, but it is not emphasized much.
But sometimes, to understand the power of a word, it is necessary to look not only at how it is said, but what it calls for. Because sometimes it is not the weapon that makes a sound, but the silent but determined march of conscience.
And the first word:
Right is not help; it is what one can demand without bowing one's head.
Education, health, housing and transportation... These are basic human needs to which we are all entitled from the moment we are born.
“It is not something that ”it would be good if it was given", it is something that has to be given.
That's why in some Northern European countries, when talking about social support, nobody asks “am I a burden?”.
Because the issue there is not goodness, but equal citizenship.
And in these lands, “right” is not just a legal concept; it is a word of existence. We grow up in the shadow of the belief called Al-Haqq. We learn conscience with the right of the servant, and universality with the right of the human being.
“When we say ”my right“ we declare our existence, when we say ”forgive me your right“ we open the door to our heart. When we are born, we talk about our rights, and when we die, we leave behind the question ”do you forgive your rights?".
Because we open our eyes to the world with rights and say goodbye with rights. Rights are not only a demanded share; they are the dignity of human beings. It is both the individual and collective memory of humanity.
The second word repeated:
The law exists to ensure that justice is done and that it is not left alone.
If the law cannot touch the powerful, if it cannot tax the easy and tax the difficult, if the state is a party rather than an arbiter, then there is law but no security. In such a situation, what remains can only be the law of the powerful. Because law protects human beings only to the extent that it can distinguish the right from the wrong, and that it favors the deserving over the powerful.
And
Justice is often mistaken for equality. However, justice is not that everyone gets the same thing, but that no one is pushed so low that they lose their human dignity.
Equality is sometimes about math; justice is about conscience.
Giving everyone the same umbrella when it rains is equality.
But if some live in their homes and others are on the streets, just giving the same umbrella is not justice.
That's why we keep referring to the freedom and justice systems of the same countries.
Not because they are perfect;
Because they insist on not taking people out of the system.
If a society cannot establish a foundation of rights, law and justice within itself, no outside intervention can make that foundation permanent.
History has repeatedly shown that freedom cannot be brought about by tanks, sanctions or force. Freedom is inherent in human nature. But when rights, law and justice are used only for the benefit of certain powers, orders emerge that separate man from man and oppress man against man. Such systems pave the way for the domination of one group over others and modern slavery.
Therefore, the future of countries like Iran cannot be left to internal pressures alone, nor to solutions imposed from outside.
Because freedom is not built through tyranny or colonial minds. In such orders, it is only the masters who change; the common man becomes a slave again, and humanity continues to experience the same pain in different faces.
Right-law-justice is the natural breath of human beings.
And it is the key to freedom.
The biggest test of the world is not to forget the culture of living together.
Because sometimes the person we have coffee with can turn into someone else without us realizing it, with the silent touch of internal and external dynamics.
Unfortunately, the world is full of painful examples where a neighbor may go to kill his neighbor the next morning.
Therefore, democracy is not just a form of government, it is about trying to understand the other, being vigilant against forces that play with perceptions and standing together against languages that seek political gain by dividing the people.
This is the essence of right, law and justice:
To be able to live without oppressing, without despising, getting to know each other, making peace, respecting each other and preserving the magic of remaining human...
If we lose the talisman of light to remain human, it is not difficult for the magic of darkness to transform us into a horrible being.
Because sometimes power can turn into a silent black magic that mesmerizes people but robs them of their humanity.
But have we really understood the magic of right, law and justice?
Or have we remained human enough to surrender ourselves to the call of that magic?