Turkey has a point though, relevant treaty says those islands should be demilitarised. If Greece is not happy about that, it should renegotiate and sign new treaty.
Dismissing someone greavances as "warmongering" will just escalate war.
Dismissing someone greavances as "warmongering" will just escalate war.
Source: https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1186488/erdogan-issues-thr...
If Italy wants to complain about Greece violating the treaty, by all means, but why should Turkey, as a non-signatory?
There's also a treaty between Greece and Italy, which stipulates that there will be no army on some islands, the violation of which Italy apparently has no problem with. I don't understand by what right an unrelated third party complains about it, it seems to me about as relevant as Greece complaining about a treaty between Colombia and Brazil.
Soon climate crisis will produce anywhere between 100 million to a billion refugees. Will countries that polluted most take the most?
Imagine you are in charge of a struggling nation, somewhat behind technologically, close to Germany and Italy, during the most destructive war in history.
In that situation, would you be eager to declare war on the axis powers, and condemn your people to suffering?
Even US wasn't keen to get involved untill war came to them - and they had technological parity and protection of the oceans..
You also have to realise that To non-europeans, for example folks in China, Nazi germany didn't look like 'absolute evil', it looked like a yet another war between colonial powers. They had fresh memory of atrocities commited by colonial powers which, to them, were not that different from Nazis's ones.
To them, Europe only cared about europe - when empire of Japan was doing genocide in China, noone cared.
The point is not to agree or disagree with this worldview, but you have to realise that world events don't look the same from dofferent corners.
> You also have to realise that To non-europeans, for example folks in China, Nazi germany didn't look like 'absolute evil', it looked like a yet another war between colonial powers.
China land was literally occupied by Japanies who fought on the German side and joined the allies. China fought in that war and lost quite a lot of people in that war.
Ad Turkey: It is one thing to stay aside of genocide far away, it is another thing to demand credit for fighting genocide when it is clear who won.
> The point is not to agree or disagree with this worldview, but you have to realise that world events don't look the same from dofferent corners.
Those other corners don't get to lie about places away from them or history while ranking up own aggression.
This is pot / kettle black. It's not like none of this happens over here.
If you open a typical British or US history textbook, it omits or glances over most of the atrocious and dark parts of it's history.
As a result most population is unaware of their scale, or sometimes unaware of them at all. That's how you get false narratives in politics, usually nationalist ones. In my experience a typical brexit supporting person has never heard of half the stuff that was going on in the colonies.
That does not mean it is suddenly honorable when Turkey do it right now. Or that we have to accept similar behavior from everyone else without pointing it out.
Not every part of Europe, even that is selective. Atrocities happened in ex-Yugoslavia right under it's nose and inaction, less than 30 years ago.
Who knows if anything would've been done for Ukraine either if it wasn't for their president and people's heroic defense in the first days.