Historically they have always been at the brink:
There is one issue on which Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its main opposition, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), are in complete agreement: The conviction that the Greek islands are occupied Turkish territory and must be reconquered. So strong is this determination that the leaders of both parties have openly threatened to invade the Aegean.
The only conflict on this issue between the two parties is in competing to prove which is more powerful and patriotic, and which possesses the courage to carry out the threat against Greece. While the CHP is accusing President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an’s AKP party of enabling Greece to occupy Turkish lands, the AKP is attacking the CHP, Turkey’s founding party, for allowing Greece to take the islands through the 1924 Treaty of Lausanne, the 1932 Turkish-Italian Agreements, and the 1947 Paris Treaty, which recognized the islands of the Aegean as Greek territory…
History is, in fact, filled with examples of Turks carrying out murderous assaults against Anatolian Greeks. In one instance, the genocidal assault against Greek and Armenian Christians in Izmir in 1922 was highlighted in a speech before the parliament by Devlet Bahceli, the head of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP)…
Turkish propagandists also have been twisting facts to try to portray Greece as the aggressor. Ümit Yal?m, former secretary-general of the Ministry of National Defense, for example, said that “Greece has turned the Greek-occupied islands into arsenals and military outposts that Greece will use in its future military intervention against Turkey.”
Turkish politicians all seem to have their own motivations for their obsession with the islands: Traditional Turkish expansionism, Turkification of Hellenic lands, neo-Ottomanism and Islam’s flagship of conquest — jihad. There are also strategic reasons for their wanting to invade the islands, which can be understood in a statement made by Deputy Prime Minister Tu?rul Türke? about Turkey’s control of Cyprus since 1974…
The same attitude and mentality apply to the Aegean islands. Although Turkey knows that the islands are legally and historically Greek, Turkish authorities want to occupy and Turkify them, presumably to further the campaign of annihilating the Greeks, as they did in Anatolia from 1914 to 1923 and after. The destruction of any remnant of Greek culture that existed in Asia Minor, a Greek land prior to the 11th century Turkish invasion, is almost complete. There are fewer than 2,000 Greeks left in Turkey today.
Given that Turkey brutally invaded Cyprus in 1974, its current threats against Greece — from both ends of Turkey’s political spectrum — should not be taken lightly by the West. Greece is the birthplace of Western civilization. It borders the European Union. Any attack against Greece should be treated as an attack against the West. It is time for the West, which has remained silent in the face of Turkish atrocities, to stand up to Ankara.
That wasn’t bad enough? It gets better:
A Turkish court has ordered two Greek soldiers to be held on charges of ‘military espionage.’ The soldiers claim they lost their way in bad weather before being apprehended by a Turkish border patrol.
Turkish-Greek border (picture-alliance/AP Photo/E. Gurel)A court in the northwestern Turkish city of Edirne has ordered the detention of two Greek soldiers, charging them on suspicion of “military espionage.” Greek authorities have demanded the soldiers — a lieutenant and a sergeant — be immediately released.
The soldiers, who were apprehended by officers in a Turkish military zone, claim they lost their way due to heavy snow and fog before straying over the border. The two-man Greek patrol was detained in an unclearly marked wooded area near Edirne.
There are rumors Turkey went over the border and grabbed these guys out of Greece, because they want to force a trade for eight Turkish soldiers who attempted a coup and then fled to Greece and sought asylum when it failed.
Erdogan would seem to be on that rabbit high that occurs when nobody will stand up to them, and they think they can just bully everyone into doing whatever they want.
The problem is, everything is about to come down, and one great way for the elites to avoid rampaging mobs hunting them down will be to start a war. If Trump were to get close enough to taking down the Global Deep State/Rothschild networks, a world war might even be a good way to stop Trump’s gradual advance, and buy time to establish some sort of failsafe.
Since both Greece and Turkey have mutual defense agreements with other nations, a skirmish between them could easily snowball, with allies jumping in and triggering their own mutual defense networks, the same way the shooting of some little-known arch-duke whose name almost nobody can remember dragged country after country into one World War that then set the stage for a second World War which raged across the globe.
And if that third World War happens, it will be a Muslim vs European World War, which will be exactly what you will need to set off the European civil war powderkeg between Muslim inhabitants and native Europeans, all at the same time.
It is actually all so perfect a depopulating meat-grinder for the plebes, I find myself wondering if this was the plan all along, and it was why all the Muslim migrants were drawn into Europe.
I would love to know just how owned by Deep State Erdogan is. He could be the trigger, just waiting to be pulled by his Deep State masters.
Tell everyone about r/K Theory, because war is increasingly in the air
It probably is at least one the plans. Great call. I think the way to stop this is to spread the warning to as many as possible. Elite rabbits can only function via the collusion of the ignorant. If the masses openly recognize and anticipate the scam, then the elites have to fall on the next plan.
Well for starters, both Russia and America wouldn’t side with Turkey, so the Turk is pretty much done. Erdogan would be lucky to make it another year or two.
Armstrongeconomics.com had an article last year stating that Turkey’s currency is collapsing and Erdogan (like most politicians) would go to war as a deflection. However, it gets interesting when we factor in the Kurdistan issue. My view is that NATO will take the side of Greece and either expel Turkey or Turkey will leave in a huff. Turkey will try to join the SCO and the burgeoning EAEU. Unfortunately, if Kurdistan is to be realised, Turkey (and Iran) has to be smashed. It’s all to play for as they say. Given that the world is in the depths of depression, war is inevitable. The fact that all the big players get dragged in on a global scale is also inevitable.
World war 3 looms.
Hi AC!
Storytime.
I was in Athens a year ago, just in time for the annual military parade which I watched from the restaurant on the top of my hotel, the Grande Bretagne. Down the street they went, parading in groups, always turning to face the Greek poohbahs in the canapied reviewing stand. What struck me, at first, was how ludicrous they were — each group had a unique, impractical uniform, weird hat, funny walk/march, and unloaded arms. Their marching was on par with that of a junior high school band, as they were mostly out of synch. But what really got me, AC, was the ridiculous display of airpower. The helicopters were very old, boomer-age!; the planes were out of formation and many of the planes and helicopters weren’t functioning. This is why, they said, formations were “unformed.”
If this is the best of the Greek defense, they won’t last ten minutes against the Turks who are notoriously brutal fighters.
(After seeing the military, I turned down a fun job teaching Sanskrit and classical Greek to university students who were spending a semester/year in Greece: I didn’t feel safe.) They don’t protect their own citizens from the invaders or the corruption within. Little things, like ever-present graffiti, always overflowing garbage bins, and predatory Albanian taxidrivers, suggested a country that had lost self-control. So it wasn’t just the military, but their people who were both weak and defeated, perhaps after so many years of EU financial predation.
I fear for Greece. It’s a lovely country, particularly the islands, and strategically important. It’s been defeated, risen again, and is now defeating itself. I’m not sure, however, that it’s past is predictive. It seems different, as if the Greek people today aren’t made of the sterner stuff of yesteryear.
Fascinating on the ground report. Thank you!
“as if the Greek people today aren’t made of the sterner stuff of yesteryear.”
I recently read somewhere that indeed they are not! Seems the original greeks have been replaced by migration waves from the east. IIRC the original greeks were more like the central europeans of today.
A Greek here.
Say what you like about the Greek State, but the claim that “the original greeks have been replaced by migration waves from the east”, has been debunked many times. Such claims were rife in the 19the century, especially as the Austro-Hungerians tried to preserve their multi-ethnic empire fracturing along ethnic lines. The nascent Greek Revolution, and its appeal to classicists was seen as a mortal threat at the time, as the very idea of a nation-state was inimical to the Austr-Hungerians.
There were, of course, population exchanges in the 1920s, but the Greeks who came from the East are no less “Greek” than those from the mainland. Don’t forget that until the Turkish invasion of Asia Minor, the whole area was full of Greek city states, and afterward was the heart of Byzantium. To this day, Greek ruins are scattered throughout what is today, Turkey.
In any event, the latest DNA evidence strongly suggests that the inhabitants of modern Greece are, indeed, closely related to the ancients. Moreover, the modern language bears a remarkable similarity to classical Greek. The two are much more closely related than, say, modern English and the English spoken by Chaucer.
As for the claim that “the original greeks were more like the central europeans of today”, I urge you to just look at classical Greek Pottery. The vast majority depicted therein can only be described as Mediterranean types.
Yes, we have our fair share of shifty Albanian taxi drivers. Yes, we have been let down by our craven elites. Yes, I wish our military was in a better state. However, under no circumstances should you underestimate our resolve when push comes to shove with the barbarous Turk.
On a final note, I do not share the view that the US will automatically intervene on our behalf. I guess we all soon find out.
Best of luck to you in the Apocalypse to come.
I would file away that I might have said we “were let down by our elites” a few years back, but I have come around to thinking there is something truly evil afoot, and it is planning a global conflagration to kill as many of the K-strategists as it can. I now no longer think of it as being let down, so much as being attacked so covertly most do not realize it is even happening.
I agree with you!
Many thanks for your good wishes.
If needed the greek people will defend their homeland as they did nunerous times in the past against all odds…its up to the west to understand finally who is their real ally in the region…
The fact that they keep finding more oil & gas in the larger region won’t help either…
Rien, it is true. Apparently there have been huge oil/gas finds in the Eastern Mediterranean. A company called Noble Energy is seeking to capitalise on this. A feller by the name of William Jefferson Clinton just happens to be on the board of Noble Energy. As we know, there is profit in chaos. The plot thickens!
OT:
Must read thread about DJT foreign trade policies:
https://twitter.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/970403280349220865
On Topic:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-04/islamic-teacher-found-guilty-grooming-child-terrorists-attack-london
Lol, and normies wonder why the Buddhists in Myanmar did what they did (chopping up every muslim man woman and child in pieces)…
Always good to remember that war is unavoidable:
https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/147886871/#q147886871
Off topic:
Top kek:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-04/anarchist-explains-how-hackers-could-cause-global-chaos
Say henlo to the lastest controlled opposition hire by the deep state.
“It borders the European Union.”
With a bone-head comment like that, are we supposed to take the article seriously, or assume it’s from the Onion.
PS. In case you don’t know, Greece (but not Turkey) is a full member of the EU.
Surely, as an outer member of the EU geographically…it’s Bordering the EU?