How do they deal with Trump’s victory in the Maximos Palace and what assessments are made of what his second term in the White House can bring?
The Prime Minister congratulated Donald Trump on his election and his staff, as the Pacemaker points out, are taking a wait-and-see attitude, remaining cool, not manifesting. However, there is an important fact on the table. That Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ relations with the “Trump system” are excellent.
However, it is not only the relations with the “Trump system”. The Pacemaker also recalls the relations that Mitsotakis and Pompeo developed all this time in the frequent meetings they had when Pompeo was foreign minister (and during his ministry Turkey was blocked from the F-35 program). It is not a secret at all that Pompeo (one of Trump’s closest associates) gathers many chances to either take over as Secretary of Defense or National Security Advisor. Let me not forget to tell you about the meal he recently hosted at his house in Chania in the presence of Nikos Dendias, for republican MPs.
They still tell me, writes BIMAtodotis, that the new Trump administration, especially in Greek-Turkish, the assessments made here in Athens are that there is not going to be anything that could be perceived as favoring Erdogan and the Turkish government, since the Greek-American defense agreement cooperation, is for both countries of strategic importance. They will certainly encourage dialogue as well as the calm waters in the Aegean.
Due to the interest of the Americans in the Middle East, it is expected that there will be further utilization of the Souda base (the Americans consider it to be the safest base they have in the Mediterranean), further upgrading of the port of Alexandroupolis and also of Cyprus, which now assumes a key role in the Middle East region for Washington, as a result, as we will see below, degrading Incirlik and irritating Ankara.
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