The goal of honor
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FIRST the good news:
Erdogan is not invulnerable, neither militarily, nor politically, nor economically, nor geopolitically. Militarily, because the tip of the bow of the "Lemnos", an exercise by our Armed Forces on the border in minority villages (the day after Aksoy's claims that we were closing Muslim schools) and the repulsion by the Coast Guard of a yacht carrying illegal immigrants in the Aegean (the cunning Turks had raised the US flag!) were enough for the Sultan to understand that our Army is not afraid, is not a liar, is not playing around, and that with two or three symbolic moves it can humiliate the Turk. And to send its frigates to the shipyards for repairs, as we were the first to reveal in this newspaper. Even Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis noticed this, who rushed to have his picture taken next to our armed fighter jets in Chania on Friday, making the Turks shudder.
Our Army, one step ahead of our leadership as a whole, has shown Erdogan what kind of “dialogue” it can have on the field to which it was called. Just as the national guards showed him in Evros in February. Politically too – the good news continues – Erdogan has shown that he is not as strong as he shows when he “barks”. He lied to his people and his MPs in the first 24 hours when the three-meter crack that the commander of the “Lemnos” managed to make in his “Kemal Reis” inside the Greek continental shelf was discovered. A leader who swears on the Koran to be virtuous and to tell the truth told them that "Kemal Reis" managed to inflict a blow on "Lemnos". Liar! He also lied about doing research. He didn't. "Oruc" would sometimes open its speakers, sometimes close them. However, the Sultan presented his "sulatso" within our continental shelf to his loyal, good voters in Anatolia.
He also lied about Thrace. Not a single hair on the head of a Muslim was touched by the Greek Armed Forces. Erdogan was simply alarmed at the idea that the local population there could suffer within the framework of Lausanne reciprocity what the Greek minority of Constantinople did in 1955. That is, to be left with three out of a hundred minority schools to begin with!
Economically, Erdogan is also not doing well. There are times when Turkey resembles the Soviet Union shortly before its fall and collapse.
Geopolitically, finally, the Sultan is not feeling well: Against his alliance with Iran and Qatar with the aim of controlling the Muslim world, a heterodox alliance of Mediterranean Christian Muslim states is being formed (France, Israel, Egypt, Emirates, Cyprus, Greece, Saudi Arabia) with the aim of stopping his invasion of the Muslim world and reducing his influence in the Mediterranean Sea (the French don't like this either.) Dendias has worked a lot for this alliance and for the theory of the two "arcs" with visits, which is why Pompeo listened to him carefully. So the good news is this and it stops here. Erdogan fears war more than we do. But he is bargaining for his country with weapons, its size and geographical position with the threat of war. Our Army sent him a specific message: "A life ἐonςἐyou dressedto thelandandἐwithςin thewater! Nowdid you remembertoἀopentto thesea; Insomethingwherenot you know and you will never know aνwe judgeἀAPtheirἀjamorseegovernorthemyour;».
The good news for us, however, I repeat, stops here. The limitation of Turkey's influence in the Muslim world and the cancellation of its plans to penetrate Africa with the primary goal of Libya's sources (which will make it energetically self-sufficient - and against Putin) must be offset by something. The West wants Turkey to be cut off but in its bloc. The bad news that comes to us from the General Affairs Council and from the Vienna summit meeting is that the Americans and Germans do not want to lose sight of Turkey. Even Biden, who denounces it, is hunting for votes. As Obama's vice president, he gave everything in favor of Attila's stay in a meeting with Kotzias! In the General Affairs Council, the Germans took the lead in not issuing a joint statement condemning Turkey, they scolded us for the agreement with Egypt, and given our economic situation – we need the money from the Recovery Fund – they are pressuring us unbearably for a dialogue on all matters. We, through Dendias, correctly blocked the joint statement on the pro-Russian leadership of Belarus – out of necessity – but we did not receive a text condemning the Turks!
The Americans, too, are in an election period and the outgoing leadership of the State Department does not want to blame Turkey's loss to the West on its days. Although Pompeo "buys" the Dendias argument for the anti-Western "Turkey-Iran-Qatar" arc. In reality, America, like the Germans, is biased in favor of Turkey, pretending to be neutral. Given this, what is left? Erdogan settled for a week on the Greek continental shelf in the Kastellorizo EEZ and established in practice that it is an area of "disputed jurisdiction" (US announcement). Together with the Imia. Now it is entering a new phase. Using – for the first time it came from his lips – the term “International Law of the Sea” he is attempting, through the suffocating pressure exerted on us in the background by the USA – Germany, to put all the issues into dialogue. And in order for Turkey to gather in a part of the Eastern Mediterranean away from the Muslims of the whole world (that is why Israel stops colonizing the West Bank), we are called upon to become the scapegoat of the affair. Us and Cyprus. If Erdogan needs a major diplomatic victory for the West to "keep" him in the West and for him to remain stable (his fall will cause a geopolitical hole in the West, the US fears), this must be achieved on our backs. If so, then the crack caused by the courageous commander of the "Lemnos" in the Turkish frigate may prove to be the goal of honor for us. At this stage, we must not bend, we must not accept dialogue on all fronts, and we must not tell the people - at the level of head of state, President of the Republic - inaccuracies. Turkey is not isolated. But it can only be isolated if we engage in dialogue like Governor Saliaris: with the nose of the bow! Not with the stern! And by showing the West what is at stake from any destabilization of our own. First of all, the issue of immigration. We must add a little contingency, a little "madness" to our politics. The strategy of the "predictable" has measured life!
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