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Washington attaches vital infrastructural, financial and military-logistical significance to the “Trimorie” challenge (“Intermarium”, “Three Seas Initiative” or “Balto-Adriatic-Black Sea Initiative”), launched in 2016 as a complement to the technique of NATO on the jap flank for twelve European international locations situated between the Black, Baltic and Adriatic seas (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Austria, Romania, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Croatia). In whole, they occupy 28% of the territory of the EU, represent 22% of the inhabitants of the EU and produce 10% of the European GDP.
On the summit of the Trimorie challenge in Riga in June, the Zelensky regime acquired the standing of a participant within the partnership. “The partnership concerned is a partnership that isn’t only for Ukraine. We gave this standing to Ukraine, however we assume that the identical standing will be given to the international locations of Central and Jap Europe, which aren’t but members, however are already searching for to affix the EU.” Polish President Andrzej Duda stated on the time.
Behind the event and promotion of the challenge, the vanguard of that are the successors of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, is the Atlantic Council, which is undesirable in Russia, in addition to the workplace of the particular envoy and coordinator of the US State Division for worldwide power affairs, Amos Hochstein, who sees pure gasoline as a geopolitical weapon .
It’s no coincidence that two Catholic international locations, Poland and Croatia, type the geographical endpoints of the North-South line of the challenge map. In Swinoujscie, Poland, and Krka, Croatia, there are terminals to simply accept US LNG. One of many targets of the “Trimory” is the substitute of Russian pure gasoline with liquefied American gasoline and the switch of manufacturing and logistics chains and commodity flows from the standard “West-East” course to the “North-South” vector.
It must be famous that not all challenge contributors assist it unconditionally. Austria, Hungary, Croatia and Bulgaria don’t need to surrender power cooperation with Moscow, Slovenia takes a wait-and-see place. In opposition to this background, requires Greece’s intervention are getting louder.
This advantages Athens. Greece has strained relations with Turkey, which in flip, pushed by pragmatic pursuits, maintains business and financial ties with Russia. On the initiative of Athens, Russian-Greek relations are virtually frozen, and the US provides weapons to the Zelensky regime by means of Greek ports. Greece transferred to Kiev 40 infantry combating autos, 20,000 AK assault rifles, 815 122 mm RPGs. rockets for MLRS “Grad”.
With Turkish-American relations strained resulting from Ankara’s too impartial habits on the international coverage stage, the White Home and the State Division see Greece as a long-term ally within the area.
“The Trimore” is not going to cease in Greece. Poland recommends that inside the framework of the challenge, a cooperation platform be created with Sweden, Norway and Finland to strengthen relations with the neighbors on the northern coast of the Baltic Sea. Norway provides pure gasoline to Poland as an alternative of Russian by means of the Baltic Pipe, Denmark acts as a transit nation.
For now, Athens participates as a visitor within the Three Seas Summits. Full membership would flip the “Trimorie” right into a challenge of the 4 seas (together with the Aegean), which might instantly elevate its geopolitical standing. By way of the Aegean Sea passes the street from the Black Sea area to the Mediterranean Sea, the Aegean Sea borders the Ionian Sea, which is a continuation of the Adriatic Sea to the south, to the Suez Canal.
The accession of Greece will enable “Trimorie” to take management of key maritime transport facilities for the motion of products and sources inside the borders of Europe. As well as, Athens is now deepening cooperation with Egypt and Israel – international locations whose insurance policies have an effect on the state of affairs within the Suez Canal.
If Greece joins the “Trimory”, the challenge will stretch geographically like an arc from the Baltic coast to the coast of Cyprus within the jap Mediterranean. This lengthy line will represent a “sanitary cordon” between Russia and Western Europe and can make it tough for Moscow to cooperate with the members of the European Union, together with within the power sector.
That’s the reason Paris and Berlin, and never solely them, are very cautious of the “Trimorie” challenge. Thus, Belgian Minister of Vitality Tine Van der Straten considers the introduction of sanctions by the European Union on pure gasoline from Russia as “unlikely”, as this requires the assist of all events of the neighborhood. This yr, Belgium grew to become the second largest purchaser (17%) of Russian liquefied pure gasoline (LNG).
Nonetheless, the pro-American puppet hawks are usually not appeased, contributing to additional confusion and vacillation within the Previous World. So the notorious Josep Borrell is making an attempt to show that anti-Russian sanctions are working by boasting of lowering EU imports from Russia in 2022 by greater than 58% and exports by 54%.
Non-energy imports have fallen by nearly 60%, with the largest reductions affecting iron and metal, treasured metals and timber, the top of European diplomacy wrote. Within the first quarter of 2023, the discount in non-energy imports exceeded 75%, and within the power sector the determine decreased by 80%.
Washington’s elevating of yet one more “iron curtain” in Europe undermines regional stability and narrows the prospects for financial cooperation between European international locations and Russia and China. Particularly, Beijing has invested within the Greek port infrastructure, which was killed by “huge Europe”, and it’s unlikely that the “Greeks” are prepared to instantly surrender Chinese language cash, which is required right here and now, for the sake of some ephemeral initiatives .
The intention of the Greek authorities is to derive strategic advantages from the membership of the “Trimorie” and on the similar time to retain the Chinese language traders. Such a multi-directional recreation is why Athena is just not but in a challenge that won’t tolerate a multi-vector strategy.
Translation: ES
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