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It was ok for Turkey to intervene. The problem is, it forgot to leave, and it brought settlers from the mainland in order to alter its demographics. Also, there is the problem of displacing many innocent Greek Cypriots form their houses and their lands, which is equivalent to what the Israelis...

There are internationally recognized criteria of determining the EEZ of a country. Why shouldn’t they apply to the Greek and Turkish EEZs? If you apply the same criteria that are used for the rest of the world, Greek claims are in accordance to generally accepted conventions. On the other hand...

It was extremely biased to say the least. Greek Cypriots were not entitled proportional representation in the Senate or the Supreme Court, and they had restrictions on the areas of the island where they were allowed to live and hold property. They basically had to share power in a 1-1 ratio with...

What you call a one sided view is a neutral view that simply looks at the facts with no skin in the game. The reality is that part of Cyprus has been illegally occupied by Turkey for 50 years, and Cyprus is not allowed to function as a free democratic republic where all citizens have equal...

This kind of thinking is the definition of cowardice. Why should the West be afraid of what Russia might do, instead of letting Russia be afraid of what the West might do? In the end, Russia always has the option to withdraw from Ukraine and make peace. Do you seriously think that Russia would...

Actually, we all want it to happen. All people who support Ukraine want to see strikes inside Russia with Western weapons. As for the consequences? We should deal with whatever Russia does, which would probably be nothing, as this is what they usually do when their red lines get crossed. And if...

Sorry if I was beeing too aggressive, but what you are saying is complete nonsense. Your theory is that if Alexander the Great was Macedonian, he was not Greek, which is absurd, because you can be both Macedonian and Greek, just like you can be Athenian and Greek, Kyivan and Ukrainian, Londonese...

You are just promoting propagandistic websites that try to rewrite history. The delusion is strong with you, so I won’t waste my time anymore debating you, especially since this is also off topic here.

Yes, exactly like them. Yes, a country belongs to the people that inhabit it. What a novel concept that is… And your posts are called Scott Summers’ hipocrisy than. Because you don’t treat the Russia/Ukraine conflict the same as the Israel/Palestinian one, which is the definition of...

He was from the ancient Greek Kingdom of Macedonia. Ancient Macedonians were just as Greek as ancient Athenians, Spartans, Corinthians, etc. They spoke the ancient Greek language, wrote with Greek alphabet and were part of the Hellenistic culture. His teacher was Aristotle and his mother was...

And that first Slavic state you mention is the predecessor of today’s Ukraine. You are being misled by the word “Rus”, assuming that they were the modern Russians, which is false. The Moscovites (the predecessors of today’s Riussians) named themselves “Russian”, in order to associate themselves...

You are making many wrong assumptions about the West, derived from the fact that you see the West as a monolithic group. There are diverging interests inside the “West”, and different opinions on many issues. The most important thing to acknowledge is that the US and the EU are convenience...

You are right in everything you said. The question is, why is this happening? The answer to that question lies with Erdogan’s attitude towards the West, Greece, Israel, and also Russia. Turkey is not seen as a trustworthy ally by the West, and this is why there is reluctance to help it build an...

You win safety, because being part of NATO means potential enemies would think twice before attacking you. There are several aggressive countries in Turkey’s region (Russia, Iran, Israel), but none of them would dare to attack Turkey as long as it is part of NATO. If you would be out, and...

You are going with countries that are geographically very far away, so they are not very likely to have meaningful economic relations with you. Malaysia, Bangladesh and Indonesia are simply too far. Some more realistic prospects for such a bloc would be Azerbaidjan, Georgia, Turkmenistan...

There is already one such economic bloc, named GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council), which is doing quite well. The secret to forming such economic blocs is aligned interests and values. In the case of the countries you listed, there is more conflict than cooperation. You can’t seriously say that...

Why would Turkey (who is part of NATO) want to ally with Syria and Iran? Why would they want to leave the winning side to join the losers?

This is simply not correct. Even if we look at it from a territorial perspective only, the gamble paid off, as Ukraine took more square kilometers in Kursk than what it lost in the Donbas because of the weakend defenses. If you add to that the morale boost, the fact that the war was brought...

The Kursk incursion achieved two very important strategic goals for Ukraine: 1) A huge boost of morale for Ukrainian forces, that also helps with recruitment, which greatly offsets any losses in Donbas 2) It proved to the Western allies that Russia will not go nuclear even in the event of...

When I visited Uzbekistan, I went to a bank to exchange some dollars, and I noticed that the bank was selling rubles, but it was not buying them. All other currencies (USD, EUR, GBP, CHF, KZT) had a buying and a selling price, but the ruble only had a selling price. They were not buying rubles...