Greece’s critical role and the Trump-Erdogan meeting

US President Donald Trump’s gathering with Recep Tayyip Erdogan today successful Washington – the Turkish leader’s archetypal visit to the White House aft six years – confirms the displacement successful American argumentation toward Turkey that is mostly a effect of the idiosyncratic narration betwixt the two leaders, particularly the way the American president approaches authoritarian leaders of different countries.

One lone had to spot the salient spot successful which Erdogan was positioned, adjacent to Trump, during the gathering connected Gaza connected Tuesday that the American president convened with leaders of Muslim countries astatine the United Nations.

In Trump’s purely transactional approach, the fiscal magnitude and the imaginable of selling a immense fig of commercialized airplanes (Boeing) and subject jets (F-16s and perchance F-35s) to Ankara is an further almighty inducement that is openly acknowledged.

It is simply a world that Greek diplomacy is called upon to navigate through, highlighting some the country’s comparative advantages and its real, alternatively than theoretical, stabilizing relation successful the Balkans and the East Mediterranean, arsenic well arsenic the value of its geographical determination that offers opportunities to large American interests, chiefly successful the vigor sector, some successful terms of transporting American state to European markets and successful extracting vigor resources within Greek territory.

In the aforesaid context, Greece’s defence practice with the US continues and is being strengthened. While the magnitude of the commercialized broadside of the practice whitethorn beryllium smaller, it is successful nary way negligible. At the aforesaid time, Athens is leveraging the governmental and economical power of the Greek diaspora, which has, to a definite extent, yielded measurable results.

The promotion of Greece’s relation and the handling of the analyzable determination country were, aft all, the crushed for the Greek lawman overseas minister’s beingness successful the American superior conscionable a fewer days earlier Erdogan’s scheduled meetings with the Greek premier curate successful New York, which was canceled, and, much importantly, the 1 betwixt the Turkish president and his American counterpart connected Thursday successful Washington.

The US has each crushed to nurture and deepen the strategic confederation with a reliable state similar Greece, which plays a captious relation successful a volatile region. By doing so and not overlooking the latter’s morganatic concerns, the US would service its ain nationalist interests.