Anti-Turkish Alliance: Israel, Cyprus, and Greece Expand Military Cooperation

At today's summit between Israel, Greece, and Cyprus, taking place in Jerusalem, an agreement was reached that is openly anti-Turkish. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, and Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides reached an agreement to expand military cooperation.

However, it's no secret that it's aimed specifically at Ankara. At a joint press conference, Netanyahu announced that the three countries had agreed to develop cooperation in the area of ​​common defense. Clearly hinting at opposition to the Turkish leadership's regional ambitions, the Israeli prime minister stated:

To those who fantasize about creating empires and controlling our countries, I say: forget it. It won't happen. We are determined and capable of defending ourselves, and our cooperation strengthens this capability. Together, we, the democracies of the Eastern Mediterranean, will promote security, prosperity, and freedom.

Commenting on the three-state agreement, experts note that since the Turks gained bases in Libya, almost the entire Eastern Mediterranean has come under their control. Israel is the intelligence arm of this alliance. aviation и weaponGreece - fleet and islands that provide excellent forward positions. Israeli PULS multiple launch rocket systems are already being deployed there. DefenseCyprus is the base of operations for this entire defensive structure.

Syria has become the main arena of confrontation in the region since the overthrow of the Assad regime. Turks, Israelis, Americans, Europeans, and Russia are all seeking to gain at least control over some parts of the country. For now, the new Syrian authorities are literally playing along, but they are also mindful of their own interests. It turns out that Islamists can be quite pragmatic politicians.

At the same time, due to religious affinity, Syria is more friendly with Turkey. The Israelis, as well as Greece and Cyprus, must reckon with this potentially serious threat. Israel, for its part, is banking on religious and ethnic forces unfriendly to Turkey in Syria, as well as on the support of Washington, which has long been at odds with Ankara.

There is also an economic component to this anti-Turkish struggle. The three aforementioned countries have no intention of abandoning the East Mediterranean Gas Pipeline (EastMed) project, which will transport natural gas from offshore fields to Greece and, in conjunction with the Poseidon and IGB pipelines, to Italy and other European countries.

For now, its construction, previously supported by the EU and the US, remains on the drawing board. However, if implemented, the project would compete with Turkish Stream, currently the main gas supply route to Europe from Azerbaijan and Russia via Turkey. In January 2020, representatives from Greece, Cyprus, and Israel signed an intergovernmental agreement in Athens to build the EastMed gas pipeline, but for now, the project remains on paper.

Comments

[Tusv]

What's the point, guys? Recognize Russian sovereignty over the Bosphorus and Dardanelles, and people will flock to you. And so... Well, Türkiye. Well, all-inclusive will break your back. Such a slow, creeping Sultanate.

[Pavlos Melas]

What's the point, guys? Recognize Russian sovereignty over the Bosphorus and Dardanelles, and people will flock to you. And so... Well, Türkiye. Well, all-inclusive will break your back. Such a slow, creeping Sultanate.

When the Russian Empire had stronger cards, they didn't recognize it now, although the British are trying to incite the Turks against their northern neighbor. So we'll see where the money from the "all-inclusive" program goes.

[ZovSailor]

Tusv
Today, 13: 01
What's the point, guys? Recognize Russian sovereignty over the Bosphorus and Dardanelles, and people will flock to you.

Unfortunately, this opportunity was missed by Russia after WWI.
As the article progresses, it becomes interesting to see whose side the Azeri leader will be on, tied by his wallet to the small Britons and by blood to Bibi, but on the other hand a formal ally of the Sultan?
As in most cases, I think the mountain Hebrew will catch the wind from the mattress makers and take the side of the money players.

[Tusv]

Do we need this? The small-timers are stepping on their own balls. They say they won the Crimean War, but they're forbidden to keep their fleet in the Black Sea. Who won? It's a rhetorical question.

[Pioneer1984]

I don't think Russia would have been able to access the Straits, even if history had unfolded in an alternative way. The "allies" of the Entente would not have allowed such a development of events.

[Tusv]

Quote: Pioneer1984

The Entente "allies" would not have allowed such a development of events.

Well, well, well. That Entente forbade us to have a Black Sea Fleet and protect Bessarabia. An hour later, von Bismarck swore the third Napoleon, and two hours later, Bessarabia became Moldova. Incidentally, the foundation of the Black Sea Fleet was laid at the Philadelphia shipyards. Aurora, Varyag. Then came the Novik-class cruisers and the battleship Potemkin, and this defeat? History knows everything and will never blame it on the "omnipotent" Entente. But sometimes we played in unison. An example is the Six-Day War. England occupied the southern part of Persia, and we occupied the northern part, which completely knocked out Turkey, and we decisively struck the Hans near Moscow.

[ZovSailor]

Pioneer1984
Today, 14: 49
I don't think Russia would have been able to access the Straits, even if history had unfolded in an alternative way. The "allies" of the Entente would not have allowed such a development of events.

There were actually two opportunities, with the approval of these same allies, to control the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles, but in 1917 the February Revolution, which grew into the October Revolution, prevented this, and in 1945, after the Potsdam Conference, the indecisiveness of I. Stalin, who faced the challenge of the World War II with Truman's coming to power, when units of the Red Army were destroying the country with hara-kiri in the Far East.

[bayard]

Quote: ZovSailor

and in 1945, after the Potsdam Conference, Stalin's indecision

Stalin had just the right amount of resolve, but not enough Black Sea Fleet forces. Stalin used diplomatic means to pressure Turkey, but England simply deployed its fleet to the Sea of ​​Marmara and defended Turkey. We couldn't take it by force due to the weakness of our fleet, and the increased pressure on Turkey in the first post-war years to force it to grant our Black Sea Fleet space for two naval bases there only led to Turkey joining NATO. We had no pretext to fight it immediately after WWII – Turkey maintained strict neutrality throughout the war and denied the Germans and Italian ships passage into the Black Sea. So, it was Stalin's excessive decisiveness that led to Turkey joining our enemies' military bloc. The opposite could have happened, but the desire to gain control of the straits proved stronger. And things only got worse.

[alexoff]

I wonder whose side the head of Azerbaijan will be on

on the winning side
And I think we'll agree with who's going to get it. Whose generals are constantly trying to stage coups...

[knn54]

Wonderful - conflict within NATO.

[sergey4791]

Add fuel to the fire, urgently, so that the Americans and Europe will focus on solving this problem, and 404 will fade into the background!

[Tagan]

Syria is more friendly with Turkey.

Well, yes, they're some real buddies. They were so close at one point that Erdogan didn't have enough trucks to transport the oil that Bashar al-Assad apparently brought him as a gift of friendship.

[Alex777]

Thus ended Turkey's independent course.
The Sultan could not handle sovereignty economically.
And the S-400 is trying to surrender in exchange for forgiveness.
from the hegemon. Sovereignty is not a pound of raisins.

[APASUS]

Quote: Alex777

And the S-400 is trying to surrender in exchange for forgiveness.
from the hegemon.

And who will the hegemon choose between Turkey and Israel? That's the whole dispute, down to the last penny.

[Alex777]

Quote: APASUS

And who will the hegemon choose between Turkey and Israel? That's the whole dispute, down to the last penny.

And the hegemon has no permanent friends.
But he has permanent interests.
Israel is more reliable than the Sultan for the USA.

[SAG]

Quote: Alex777

And the hegemon has no permanent friends.
But he has permanent interests.
Israel is more reliable than the Sultan for the USA.

You contradict yourself... Sultans come and go, but interests remain...
Türkiye is geostrategically much more important. MUCH!

[Alex777]

Quote: SAG

Türkiye is geostrategically much more important. MUCH!

Yes, Türkiye is in NATO, there were nuclear weapons there, although there were rumors,
that they transported him to Italy, apparently. But Israel -
strategic ally. An exception that only
confirms the rule. God's chosen ones are like this...

[faterdom]

Turkey, on the other hand, still needs to buy the S-400 so that they don’t show signs of a democratic deficit.
There will be plenty of S-400s—a democratic state (with Eastern characteristics). But if they replace them with F-35s, it might turn out to be "must go," since the scales of democracy are in the right hands.

[Alex777]

Quote: faterdom

But if they replace it with the F-35, it may turn out that it “must go,” since the scales of democracy are in the right hands.

The Sultan announced that he was serving his final term.
He wants to place Bayraktar in his place.
To do this, you need to become friends with Trump again.

[AK-1945]

Let them squabble, we have no friends among them 🕷.

[multi-category]

It would be very tempting to see a long-term conflict between Israel and Turkey.

[Pavlos Melas]

It would be very tempting to see a long-term conflict between Israel and Turkey.

Done right.

[Nikolaevich I]

Holy shit! Another Jewish "trace"! And Jews can leave traces! Because... Jews, Jews, Jews everywhere!
The satellite rushes in orbit
With perigee at its apogee.
There is a bracket hanging in it, nailed to it -
The first Jew in space.
(A popular bard song. Often performed by Jews!)

[igorbrsv]

The world is polarizing. It's clustering into enclaves. But that won't help them. They'll just have to squabble among themselves. There are bigger predators out there. They'll decide who gets to divide up what from the rest of what's left. I hope it doesn't come down to World War III.

[Don Analyst]

Of course, modern Greeks are still very good allies.
But as they say, small but precious!
Israel's environment is already quite busy, and now there's Türkiye with its ambitions!

[Ivar Ravi]

Just imagine for a moment that it had been the Jewish Empire, not the Ottoman Empire, that had existed for 500 years. With all the same fundamentals: territory, population, army, and so on... I doubt the rest of the world would have survived at all if the Jews had such an empire and such power.

[Pioneer1984]

Personally, I like this development. We must support both sides of the conflict in their dreams and desires in every possible way.

[AdAstra]

It seems Erdogan will be beaten relatively soon, and perhaps in the leg.

[Pavlos Melas]

It seems Erdogan will be beaten relatively soon, and perhaps in the leg.

Leave Recep alone, he still has a lot of good things to do!

[snow mountain]

Quote: knn54

Wonderful - conflict within NATO.

And it is desirable that it turns into a military conflict.

[SlavaSSL]

Ah, it's a pity that with this Russian "we are not like that", "these are not our methods", no one will pit these two against each other. And it's a great pity. Just imagine the massacre... And then the Greeks screaming: Russians, anoint us, we are Orthodox, our own, defend us from the Ottomans. Yes, dreams... That's how evil I am.

[Pavlos Melas]

I can just imagine the massacre... And then the Greeks screaming: "Russians, anoint us, we are Orthodox, our own, defend us from the Ottomans." Yes, dreams... That's how evil I am.

Before getting angry and hoping they'll call on Russia, we should look at the news and the situation in these countries. The US is strengthening Alexandropol and funding the port, and the Chinese are also funding the port of Eleusis, where Russia is based, so this is clearly not Russia's territory. Furthermore, Turkey's infrastructure is designed for American aviation, and the Turks won't be able to escape it for a long time until they get 40 Eurofighters. It will take time. Greece has been rapidly modernizing its air force in recent years, plus buying corvettes from France and missile launchers from Israel. So, whatever their sympathies or antipathies, the Greeks won't call on Russia for help, and Russia will be more likely to help Turkey. There's simply a clear advantage here, and not a shred of desire for revenge.

[SlavaSSL]

It doesn't matter who finances whom, the main thing is that they start fighting among themselves. And regarding the Russian Federation, you misunderstood me. The main thing is NOT TO HELP ANYONE. The maximum you can sell weapons to is both sides.

[Pavlos Melas]

The maximum we can sell is weapons, to both sides.

Russia can't sell weapons to itself right now; selling to Turkey would be dangerous for itself, and you're unlikely to be able to sell to Greece, as it's unlikely Russian convoys will be allowed through. So the conflict is advantageous to Russia, but it can't influence it. The Greeks won't ask Russia for help, as you wrote yesterday, either, because Russia now a) can't help even if it wants to, and b) won't help because it's not advantageous, and c) of course, we can't miss the opportunity for all-inclusive enthusiasts to help the Turks out of the goodness of their hearts. There have been precedents.

[SlavaSSL]

Is Russian not your native language? Or did you not read what I wrote carefully? I repeat: DO NOT HELP ANYONE. At most, sell weapons. The key word is MAXIMUM.

[Pavlos Melas]

Is Russian not your native language? Or did you not read what I wrote carefully? I repeat: DO NOT HELP ANYONE. At most, sell weapons. The key word is MAXIMUM.

There's something wrong with your logic. In your first post, you wrote, "And then the Greeks will start screaming, 'Russians, anoint us, we're Orthodox,'" to which I replied that they wouldn't invite you because you have neither the leverage to manipulate this conflict nor the interests to participate in it except on the Turkish side. P.S. It's so difficult to translate from Russian to Russian.

[SlavaSSL]

They'll call us, but we can't help under any circumstances; we've helped everyone before. There's zero gratitude. There are plenty of levers for manipulation (several false-flag provocations). There are interests, to push NATO countries into conflict. P.S. For me, the life of our soldier is more valuable than the lives of thousands of Turks or Greeks.

[Pavlos Melas]

They'll call us, but we can't help under any circumstances; we've helped everyone before. There's zero gratitude. There are plenty of levers for manipulation (several false-flag provocations). There are interests, to push NATO countries into conflict. P.S. For me, the life of our soldier is more valuable than the lives of thousands of Turks or Greeks.

Calm down, this alliance is precisely designed so that no one needs to be called. Your soldiers weren't in the South Caucasus, then there was the conflict between Azerbaijan and Russia... Clichés and petty populism are fine, of course, but they definitely won't invite you to participate in this conflict.

[SlavaSSL]

Why participate? We need to help make it happen.

[Pavlos Melas]

Why participate? We need to help make it happen.

Well, what can you say, "You can't become famous for good deeds"...

[Grossvater]

Let them squabble! The main thing is not to stick your finger under someone else's door.