noemon wrote:I understand you are a bit sour. Greece going to Ankara at the time is a bit like Hong Kong going to Beijing. For Kemal to save his capital and his nation from Greek annihilation, it took the combined efforts of Russia, Italy and France switching sides and abandoning their positions covering Greek lines forcing the Greek army into retreat.
The problem was why the three of them switched sides. I could understand Russia but neither Italy nor France.
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I am reading some recent developments of the Turkish "proposal" from reports in my local language. It takes a slightly different perspective, but not quite supportive to Turkey anyways, and according to the report, even Russia is not supporting them.
To be fair, the Mediterranean is even more complicated than the South China Sea that,
every country, including Turkey, Greece, Libya, Cyprus, Syria, Israel, etc., are all locked up to some extent. Why there's anyone thinking grabbing more space would break the lock is a mystery to me.
I personally think Erdogan does not really mean it either. He just wants to rally people behind him. "Leaders"...