America: A World Checkpoint Where the Rule of Law Is Suspended
The United States of America has long acted with the claim of imposing order on the world according to its own understanding, its own interests, and whatever best serves its agenda. This claim is no longer merely a political preference; it has evolved into a dangerous sphere of arbitrariness that directly undermines international law, diplomatic conventions, and trust between states.
Diplomatic immunity, the security of heads of state and senior public officials, the binding nature of international law “principles once accepted without question” are now seen to have effectively lost their validity in the face of American practices. Law has been stripped of its universal character and reduced to an instrument shaped by circumstances, political needs, and power relations.
Under these conditions, the growing reluctance of world leaders to travel to the United States is not a rumor but a natural consequence. Even the decision of some leaders to refrain from traveling personally and instead send representatives is not a diplomatic discourtesy, but a reflex of self-preservation. Because the fundamental question has now become this:
“Can someone who goes to the United States return in legal and political safety?”
If the answer to this question is unclear, then what exists there is not order but uncertainty, not diplomacy but risk.
At this point, it is entirely legitimate and rational for citizens to oppose the travel of ministers, senior bureaucrats, or state officials to the United States - whatever the cost may be. The United States now presents the image of a country where return is not guaranteed, where the legal norms being applied are unpredictable, and where security cannot be assured.
Until the United States resolves this issue in a clear, binding, and credible manner, no country “at any level” should send its leaders, bureaucrats, or official representatives there. Because the issue is not a series of isolated incidents, but a structural record. Within that record, the existence of mechanisms capable of producing charges for political purposes is well documented. This record cannot be ignored.
The United States is gradually ceasing to be perceived as a country and is instead assuming the identity of a world checkpoint - entry permitted, exit uncertain. This condition first produced fractures and unrest within its own internal structure, and now the external manifestations of this discomfort have begun to surface. Power can produce fear; but power that cannot produce trust cannot lead.
No one “neither temporary administrations, nor narrow cliques, nor short-term political calculations” has the right to drive a country like the United States into such a discredited, insecure, and problematic position. Because the damage is inflicted not only on America, but on the international order itself.
When international law is suspended, no one is safe.
The mechanisms established for others today will work for everyone tomorrow.
YORUMLAR