US-Greece relations

If a minister of a foreign country visits Turkey or meets with a Turkish official, that is automatically and wrongly interpreted through the prism of Greek-Turkish relations.

The former US Secretary of State says Erdogan’s tactics ‘do not befit good neighbourly relations between two NATO member states’, only way to confront Putin ‘adequate show of force’.

The new security terrain that is emerging in Europe can be exploited in order to manage Greek-Turkish disputes in a realistic manner.

Erdogan has not moved an inch in pursuing a wide array of claims and challenges to Greek sovereignty, and the PM must make tough calls on what more Athens may legitimately negotiate, without compromising sovereignty and national interests.

Pyatt addressed the question of a Biden-Mitsotakis meeting in Washington asserting that both sides want it, but it appears that the timing remains very unclear.

The exceptionally good personal relationship between Donald Trump and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, gave Ankara great leeway in charting its geopolitical moves and to harrass other NATO member-states and to ignore good neighbourly relations.

In Greece one sees the celebrations of pundits and politicians who perhaps believe that the new president will suddenly improve Greece’s position geopolitically on the fluid regional map.

Tsipras is underlining the need for improved bilateral ties so as to “stably build the basis of the two countries’ cooperation after nearly five years of inertia in their relations”.

What would Greece receive in return by turning the country into a US military base? How would it be shielded in terms of defence?

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