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Today, Turkey is pursuing an active foreign policy, claiming the role of a regional leader in the Eastern Mediterranean, Black Sea region, even Southwest Asia, sometimes doing so in parallel with British efforts. Through the balancing principle of foreign relations, London uses Ankara as a tool to realize its own geopolitical agenda. Within this strategy, the GB takes consistent actions to strengthen the British-Israeli-Turkish-Ukrainian axis, countries which, apart from Israel, are members of or aligned with NATO. Neither Britain and Israel recognize the Armenian Genocide. Moreover, it is very unlikely that they will do so in the near future....
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However, Biden’s recognition of Armenian genocide ultimately signals the emergence of a certain good cop-bad cop division of responsibility between UK and US, respectively. US gets to be “bad cop” that enforces liberal values upon its allies, conditional on their level of responsiveness to US interests and preferences. UK gets to be the “good cop” of cooperation and tutelage, freeing the US from the onerous task of having to be friends with genocide deniers. It’s useful to bolstering #GlobalBritain’s self image, and also to Biden’s desire for the US to play a less public role in international politics in tune with US public’s disenchantment with “forever wars”. To be sure, the “forever wars” will continue, in Afghanistan and elsewhere, but with the US maintaining at least one or two degrees of separation from the actual “dirty work”.