Times are changing, and rapidly. Try and bear with me as I give a short run down of the problems facing Greece and the EU as they are multilevel and intertwined like a Gordian knot. The summary goes like this:
1. Germany has an open border policy.
2. Turkey has an open border policy.
3. FYROM has shut her borders and refugees are trapped in Greece.
4. Austria spearheads group of Balkan states refusing to open borders even for transit refugees.
5. Germany is energy dependant on Russia for natural gas.
6. Germany wants access to middle east natural gas from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
7. Syria had refused to alow a pipeline to cross her territory to expediate point 6.
8. Austria is close ally to Germany.
9. Turkey is close ally to Germany.
10. Merkel sees threat to both Schengen zone and Euro zone from unilater Austrian actions.
Now taking into account point 1 and 2 consider point 10 to be realistic. Taking into account points 8 and 9 in combination with 5,6,7 suddenly point 10 is weakened. Countries become allies when they have common interests, I am not talking about hobbies and music, of economic, millitary and other such nature. Germany played hardball in the Ukraine supporting all kinds of pro-Nazi groups in order to tip the balance away from Russia. Failed miserably there. Germany went on to try and tip the balance by supporting ISIS in the middle east through Turkey. That episode ended with the shooting down of a Russian warplane that spent a few seconds in Turkish airspace. Turkey has been violating Greek airspace for years. Waterspace too. Now NATO warships are in the Aegean in an apparent attempt to stem the flow of refugees. The plan was that these warships would save refugees from their dinghies and then return them to TURKISH shores. Turkey has refused. The president of Turkey, Tagip Erdogan, went on a trip to west Africa to promote Turkish Airways service from Ghana and other countries with added daily flights to Istanbul at 50 euros a ticket and NO VISA REQUIRED. Turkey has an open border policy for anyone who wants to climb into a dhingy and attempt to cross the Aegean into Greece. Mekel claims to have an open border policy for any refugee that land on EU soil but NOT BY AIRPLANE. NATO has an anti-Russian mandate historicaly and is now operating in the Aegean. Russia of course has been sailing her warships down to Syria from the Black Sea through the Aegean. I think the conspiracy theory here has been proven. The only question that remains is what will the US public vote. If they vote either Clinton or Trump they will be voting for a Kissinger fan that will certainly increase the level of tension here.
1. Germany has an open border policy.
2. Turkey has an open border policy.
3. FYROM has shut her borders and refugees are trapped in Greece.
4. Austria spearheads group of Balkan states refusing to open borders even for transit refugees.
5. Germany is energy dependant on Russia for natural gas.
6. Germany wants access to middle east natural gas from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
7. Syria had refused to alow a pipeline to cross her territory to expediate point 6.
8. Austria is close ally to Germany.
9. Turkey is close ally to Germany.
10. Merkel sees threat to both Schengen zone and Euro zone from unilater Austrian actions.
Now taking into account point 1 and 2 consider point 10 to be realistic. Taking into account points 8 and 9 in combination with 5,6,7 suddenly point 10 is weakened. Countries become allies when they have common interests, I am not talking about hobbies and music, of economic, millitary and other such nature. Germany played hardball in the Ukraine supporting all kinds of pro-Nazi groups in order to tip the balance away from Russia. Failed miserably there. Germany went on to try and tip the balance by supporting ISIS in the middle east through Turkey. That episode ended with the shooting down of a Russian warplane that spent a few seconds in Turkish airspace. Turkey has been violating Greek airspace for years. Waterspace too. Now NATO warships are in the Aegean in an apparent attempt to stem the flow of refugees. The plan was that these warships would save refugees from their dinghies and then return them to TURKISH shores. Turkey has refused. The president of Turkey, Tagip Erdogan, went on a trip to west Africa to promote Turkish Airways service from Ghana and other countries with added daily flights to Istanbul at 50 euros a ticket and NO VISA REQUIRED. Turkey has an open border policy for anyone who wants to climb into a dhingy and attempt to cross the Aegean into Greece. Mekel claims to have an open border policy for any refugee that land on EU soil but NOT BY AIRPLANE. NATO has an anti-Russian mandate historicaly and is now operating in the Aegean. Russia of course has been sailing her warships down to Syria from the Black Sea through the Aegean. I think the conspiracy theory here has been proven. The only question that remains is what will the US public vote. If they vote either Clinton or Trump they will be voting for a Kissinger fan that will certainly increase the level of tension here.
Photo is from Idomeni at the Greek-FYROM border.
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