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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is trying to counterbalance Turkey’s distancing itself from Europe by shifting his focus to the East.

The invasion of Ukraine constitutes an effort to change the country’s borders, and thereby bolsters all manner of revisionism, which violates international law.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has understood the strategic impasses created by his country’s energy dependence on Moscow, for which Angela Merkel has not expressed regret.

The Ukrainians have not only have they put up a fierce resistance to the Russian invaders, but they also forced Moscow to retreat from the area of Kyiv and to revise its overall strategy.

The optimism bred by the Kremlin’s announcement that it is withdrawing certain forces from the Russia-Ukraine border proved to be premature.

The “true spirit of democracy” to which Xi Jinping referred and with which Putin agreed, has nothing to do with democracy as the US and the EU understand it.

For a year-and-a-half Vartholomeos has been the target of an intensive propaganda campaign by both the Kremlin and the Moscow Patriarchate, which in both the Soviet era and under Putin has been the long arm of Russian soft (and often not so soft) power.

Unbridled Erdogan is becoming ever more aggressive despite President Trump’s admonition to him not to act as the tough guy and not to be “foolish”, a term normally inconceivable in diplamtic parlance.

Europe’s absence is also glaringly obvious in the latest Syria crisis and the chaos caused by the recent Turkish invasion.

What is most important is the creation of a new international conscience that will take into account the fact that asymmetrical challenges are here

Aside from energy security, enhanced energy and military cooperation between the three countries and the broader geostrategic setting were high on the agenda.

The State Department said that the Secretary will attend the summit to discuss basic energy and security issues faced by the Eastern Mediterranean.

Naturally, this is a detail of the bigger map of Nato’s overall strategy with its known aggressive aims and with the main target in this period being Russia.

Seeking primacy in the Orthodox world, the Russians historically called Moscow the “third Rome”,  after the collapse of the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium)

As for the accord’s recognition of a “Macedonian language”, Zaev said that there is already a UN decision clarifying that FYROM’s language belongs to the family of South Slavic languages.

In response to the question “Do you favour the agreement with Greece on changing the name of the Republic of Macedonia, 52.6 percent of respondents said no, and 47.4 percent said yes.

Energy is the critical factor in US plans to detach the Balkan countries from the Russian energy vice

The strategic cooperation of the two sides is now very deep. Athens has entirely embraced the “US energy doctrine”, which seeks to isolate Russia.

The US has resoundingly expressed its consternation over the fact that Nato member Turkey plans to buy a Russian anti-aircraft, anti-missile system