Why has America become the scene of terrorist attacks on the eve of Trump’s inauguration?

Mehr News, International International Group: while the countdown Trump’s inauguration ceremony, which is to be held in a few hours, has started in this At the same time as New Year’s Eve, the world witnessed at least three acts of terrorism and mass murder in America; An issue that has involved analysts and experts in this field as well as the authorities of this country.

In the latest case, there was a shooting in a nightclub in New York and 11 were injured; Incidents like this are repeated many times in America under the name of mass shootings every year and are significantly different from two suspicious and terrorist incidents in Louisiana and Nevada.

In New Orleans state of Louisiana, an armed driver on the first day of the new year 2025 with a A rented truck ran over a number of people who were celebrating the New Year and then opened fire, killing 15 people and injuring more than Out of 30 people were injured.

The US Federal Investigation Agency announced in a statement that the attacker was born in the US and was from Texas and was killed in a shootout with the police. On the other hand, CNN, citing two law enforcement sources, reported that the attacker was carrying an ISIS flag during the attack. The network added that the attacker had a history of serving in the US Army. US President Joe Biden said after this attack, the signs indicate that the perpetrator of this attack was “inspired by ISIS”.

At the same time as this incident, the explosion of a Tesla “Cybertruck” car in front of President Donald Trump’s hotel The president-elect of the United States killed one person and injured seven others in Las Vegas, Nevada; An incident that is being investigated as a terrorist act.

Increasing terrorist and subversive activities on the eve of Trump’s inauguration

Trump, who will take the oath again in the coming days and enter the White House, recently on his social network under the title “Truth Soshal” referring to recent incidents and terrorist attacks, he wrote: “Our country is a disaster and has become a laughing stock of the whole world.” This happens when you have open boundaries and weak and ineffective leadership, so that there is virtually no leadership.”

He said, “The Department of Justice, the FBI, and the Democratic state and local prosecutors have not done their job while blaming various departments and institutions of the United States.” They are incompetent and corrupt, and instead of focusing on protecting Americans from the violent events that have infiltrated our government and nation in every dimension, they have spent all their waking hours illegally attacking their political opponent, me.”

Although such statements are more political and are made with the aim of destroying the established democratic government, they depict the reality of the American society, which is always full of violence and ready to carry out terrorist activities. is.

“Clara Brokart” a researcher at the Sufan Center who follows the activities of ISIS in the cyber space. He said: This attack was not so unexpected and there were warning signs. In recent months, we’ve seen a flood of calls for violence during the New Year holidays, with frequent calls for tactics ranging from stabbings to vehicle attacks. It was discussed.

This researcher added: In 2024 alone, at least five ISIS-inspired and directed plots inside the United States were foiled. He added that the success of the New Orleans attack, for which ISIS has not yet officially claimed responsibility, has greatly boosted the activities of this group in cyber space.

According to the Guardian, before the mid-November presidential elections, ISIS activities increased in America. First, a Pakistani national living in Canada was arrested before plotting against a New York Jewish center. Then, in October, the FBI arrested an Afghan man in Oklahoma on charges of planning an election day gunfight. Around the same time, a man from the state of Maryland was arrested on suspicion of supporting ISIS and allegedly trying to buy a Kalashnikov assault rifle.

Now the American law enforcement and intelligence officials have the difficult and time-consuming task of dealing with terrorist movement imitators. Recent or possible supporters of ISIS who may try to repeat this operation are facing.

From economic and social problems to virtual space and political bipolarity

American officials agree that the terrorist attack in New Orleans is attributed to ISIS . This point, however, has been neglected to some extent, and that is that both suspects of terrorist attacks had a history of working in the American army; The army that has made the Middle East and the world insecure since 2001 by occupying Afghanistan and then in 2003 by occupying Iraq. Therefore, terrorist movements must be rooted in the foreign policy and domestic situation of the United States before being attributed to ISIS.

In a report, the American television network “NBC” considered the economic and social conditions to be effective in the escalation of extremism in America and cited: factors such as the financial crisis of 2008, the epidemic Corona and economic instability have caused an increase in despair and as a result the tendency to extremism.

The war in Ukraine has also increased the dissatisfaction and disappointment of Americans in recent years. On the eve of the US presidential election, the latest Gallup Institute survey indicates that according to 90% of the people of this country, the economic situation and high prices are their most important issue and problem. . While strongly criticizing the unbridled high prices and inflation in this country, they expressed their disappointment at the indifference of all American governments to the problems of the people.

From the point of view of the observers, the polarization and the spread of extremism in the online space is also the cause. The bipolar atmosphere produced by politics and the media affiliated with politicians has caused the level of solidarity and tolerance of the American society to decrease; The bipolarity that can be clearly seen during the recent American elections.

In the recent election, which Trump eventually won, in a far-right party led by Trump with the slogan of nationalism (America first) which highlighted the fear of Muslims And the arrival of immigrants was after the people’s vote, and on the other hand, Harris was completely under the influence of the extreme left and focused on different demands from the Republican spectrum.

In this regard, the American television network “NBC” warned about the security consequences of the polarization of the US political environment, referring to the spread of extremism in the online space. In a report referring to the New Year’s deadly attacks in New Orleans, the network’s website wrote: We are witnessing a complete storm. Extremism online and the polarization of the political environment have increased the risk of attacks.

This American media assessed the dispersion of extremists and the diversity of their ideology as one of the dimensions of extremism in the new conditions and wrote: Now the American Federal Police and other security institutions must fight individual attackers with different ideologies.

NBC blamed social networks and online algorithms for increasing their isolation and added: online algorithms increase anger and intensify polarization and extremism.

This English-language media no longer considered armed attackers to be from a single ideology, as before: attackers are usually inspired by different ideologies, and the attacker may even be , has combined extreme right ideology with religious fundamentalism.

This western media, referring to the increase in attacks by extremists in 2024, evaluated these attacks as more influenced by extreme right-wing ideas than by fundamentalist religious ideologies.

Conclusion

Although due to the aggressive and interventionist foreign policy of America, especially in the post September 11 environment, This country has become a platform for terrorist activities, but internal economic and social problems, such as unemployment, high prices, lack of energy, polarization of American society, promotion of online violence, etc., affect terrorist movements. added.

On the eve of the re-entry of Trump and his team into the White House, who are known for causing trouble and militancy, there is a possibility of an increase in extremist and terrorist activities. He earlier was also the target of armed attack several times during the election campaign and in one of the cases when he was giving a speech, a bullet hit his ear and miraculously He survived.

The fear of the repetition of these terrorist incidents made the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FF). E) and the US Department of Homeland Security to 18,000 law enforcement agencies about the possibility of copying and imitating recent attacks in New Orleans and the explosion of a Tesla car in front of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas be warned. Law enforcement agencies in the US were also advised to look for signs of potential attacks, including pre-operation surveillance and the use of fake documents or credit to rent a car.