A storm is drawing near the world, and all of us will be affected by it.
Before storms, strange changes occur in the atmosphere that people cannot usually explain. Everyone senses that something is not normal, yet they cannot understand precisely what it is. The current global situation seems exactly like this feeling.
Strange things are happening, phenomena that defy description, abnormal changes in human behaviour, and no one knows the exact reason.
There is a massive accumulation of negative energy.
Many political historians and sociologists I have spoken to compare the current situation to the world on the eve of the Second World War.
After the sweeping transformations brought by the Industrial Revolution, the First World War erupted, followed by the Second. The accumulated tension was not released except through those wars. Today, after the digital revolution and now the artificial intelligence revolution, an enormous energy is building up, and the tension it produces can be seen everywhere.
Rare minerals, the essential raw material of the technological age, appear to be at the centre of the current global tension. However, the unprecedented free flow of knowledge has produced multiple complications. For example, contaminated and manipulated information flows have fuelled irrational ideologies, resulting in social strata that resemble a state of delirium.
In America, the “Make America Great Again” movement has emerged. In Italy, the “Five Star Movement”. In Germany, racist parties. In Turkey, the Fethullah Gülen organisation. In Israel, racist Zionism. In the Middle East, the Islamic State group. In Africa, criminal organisations are labelled with religious and ethnic labels.
In Turkey, we discuss daily the rise of small criminal gangs. In Europe and America, states have become powerless in the face of drug proliferation, human trafficking, and violence.
Perhaps you have noticed, even in the countries you live in, that people have become quick to resort to violence, even during minor traffic congestion.
What is the reason for all this? It is exactly like the mysterious turbulence of the atmosphere before a storm.
Negative energy can only be released through war.
Day by day, tensions rise, and energy accumulates. Unfortunately, this energy is only released through a devastating war, just as happened before the Second World War.
At that time, nationalist sentiments intensified, the gap in wealth distribution widened, greed for wealth grew, the demand for raw materials peaked, irrational ideologies surged, and leaders with extreme ideas emerged, pulling the masses behind them.
Today, the new list of needs generated by the technological revolution has turned greedy corporate giants into warlords. These corporations, most of them headquartered in America, believe they will collapse if deprived of precious minerals.
The United States has the largest army in the world. It is now deploying one third of its forces to the Venezuelan border, claiming to fight drug trafficking, while truly seeking to seize oil and underground resources.
It has openly told Ukraine: “If you do not give us your rare minerals, we will stop selling you weapons.” Its ambitions in Greenland and Canada are not above the ground, but beneath it.
Europe, having lost the technological race, is no longer striving for precious minerals and therefore does not intend to wage any wars. It has exhausted its share of aggression and greed in the previous century, having ignited two bloody world wars.
Now, it seems the turn has come for the United States, China, and Russia to play their new “historical” roles.
The tension surrounding Taiwan, although appearing geopolitical, is driven primarily by the presence of TSMC, the global monopoly on semiconductor chip manufacturing, the essential backbone of all modern industries. Without chips, almost all technological production on Earth would come to a halt.
As for Russia, it has occupied a third of Ukrainian territory and has no intention of giving it up.
Day by day, tensions rise and energy accumulates. Unfortunately, this energy is released only through a devastating war, just as happened before the Second World War.
A terrifying arms race
Faced with these threats, Europe has already begun an intense arms race. Not only Europe, but from Australia to the Middle East, and from Latin America to Africa, a frenzied military buildup is underway.
In the past ten years, global armament has increased by 37 per cent. The numbers are alarming: in 2024, the world spent 2.7 trillion dollars on weapons. To cover these costs, states are shrinking education, health, economic, and urban development budgets, which only worsens social decline.
In other words, the world is witnessing a global wave of militarisation. China, America, and Russia are leading in production.
But what will become of all these weapons? They will inevitably be used somewhere.
Israel is attacking six countries around it in pursuit of irrational ideological objectives, backed by America, the world’s largest manufacturer and exporter of weapons.
Israel’s motives stem from its blind ideological obsession with the “Promised Land”, its interest in Mediterranean gas and oil, and the ambitions of American arms corporations, most of which operate in alignment with Israeli interests.
As for what is happening in Sudan, Somalia, and other African countries, it cannot be understood solely as geopolitical conflict. It is also a race for underground wealth.
Everything mentioned above is an indicator of the immense tension and accumulation of energy across the world.
Rising tendencies toward violence, the desire for rapid wealth, and growing rebellion against class disparities all point to the buildup of dangerous energies at an individual level as well.
We see this clearly on social media, in waves glorifying war, encouraging violence, and granting legitimacy to aggression.
People try to influence their states, armies, and leaders, who are increasingly treated like demigods. Everyone threatens everyone, fingers point in every direction, and violence has become a virtue.
For this reason, a storm is approaching, and it will inevitably strike one day.
“Only a god can save us”
The head of the Turkish National Intelligence Organisation, MIT, and professor of philosophy, Ibrahim Kalin, published a new book last month titled “Journey to Heidegger’s Hut”.
The book explores the reflections of German philosopher Martin Heidegger on “being”.
In one of the chapters, Heidegger discusses the chaos into which humanity sank after the Industrial Revolution. He says that a world placing technology at its centre, reducing the human being to a mere tool of production, becomes a civilisation that has lost its meaning.
When asked how humanity can escape this dilemma, he replies:
“Only a god can save us.”
Yet Heidegger does not mean a “god” in the traditional religious sense.
He means that escaping the prison of technology is not something human willpower alone can accomplish. It requires a new “opening”, an unfamiliar horizon, an unconventional rebirth.
Is this not exactly what we are living today?
