Is the US Greece's proxy?

As you are well aware, we are all living together. Dear readers, we are witnessing firsthand that Greece continues its outrageous behavior with increasing momentum. And from all four sides. Day after day, even hour after hour, Greece is displaying everything from threats and harassment with an armchair approach. In fact, it can be said that Greece has now taken the bull by the horns. So much so that the tension has reached such a level in recent days that it can be said that the tension has evolved into escalation, escalation, which is also called the road to war. Undoubtedly, another name for this is a deliberate act of provocation. However, it should not be forgotten that all this is not something that Greece can do or be capable of doing on its own. The Defense Cooperation Agreements with both the USA and France have a big share in this. Greece is very, very confident in the Defense Cooperation Agreements. But above all, after the New Democracy Party (NDP) leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who won 39 percent of the votes and 158 parliamentary seats in the early general elections held in Greece on July 6, 2019, came to power alone, the needle suddenly turned towards the 'Deep USA'. 

Just like 'Britain's Sword' Greece after the First World War. With one difference, from Greece, the country that used it, to Greece, the country that supposedly used it, in old terms, from mef'ul to doer. But it should not be forgotten that neither the US nor France will allow itself to be used, as the statements made by the US clearly show. Kiryakos Mitsotakis, one of Greece's new generation of politicians, is the son of Constantine Mitsotakis, former leader of the YDP and prime minister between 1989 and 1992.  After graduating from the American College in Athens, Mr. Mitsotakis studied Social Sciences at Harvard University in the USA, where he received the "Hoopes" and "Tocqueville" awards for his thesis on "The US View of Greece" in 1990. In 1993, he received a Master's degree in International Relations from Stanford University, USA, on "European Integration", and in 1995 he received a Master's degree in Business Administration from Harvard University. (2) 

What can we say, he was raised or recruited from the beginning with an Americanist attitude like the Trojan Horse. The loser is the Greek people, the hardening of their way of life. 

The additional protocol exchanged on October 5, 2019 to the 'Mutual Defense and Cooperation Treaty' signed between the US and Greece in 1990 constitutes the starting point of the sailing situation. According to this Protocol, provisions regarding the modernization of the Suda Military Base on the Greek island of Crete, the renovation of Larissa Airport, and the strengthening of the Stefanovikeio Air Base between Valos and Larissa in terms of military fortifications have come to the fore. 

The US-Greece Defense Cooperation Agreement was renewed and extended two years later on October 14, 2021 for five years. After 2026, if there is no objection, this agreement is as if it is an eternity agreement. In this way, the United States has become Greece's "Surrogate State", as the proxy war is called. Just like the 'Attorney-in-Fact', the US and France have become Greece's 'Proxy State'. With the renewed agreement with the US, the US has gained access to Greek military bases, notably the Greek bases in Alexandroupoli and Suda in Crete, and the areas where US forces will conduct exercises in Greece have been expanded. (1) 

If you like, let us refresh our memories, RF is the "Proxy State" of Armenia in the east of Turkey. However, let's not forget that in the 44-day Karabakh War, it was seen that the 'Proxy State' approach did not have much value. 

The most prominent of Greece's indiscretions is that Greece, which claims to use the S 300s stationed in Crete for training purposes, added a new one to its impudence and we all watched together that it threw a radar lock on Turkish F 16s in international waters during a NATO exercise. This move by Greece against Turkey is defined as a direct "hostile act" according to NATO Rules of Engagement. Greece's use of the S-300s purchased from Russia is itself an act of aggression, and a hostile act according to NATO's manual. Another question mark is that while the US imposed CAATSA sanctions on Turkey for buying S-400s from Russia, it did not see Greece's use of S-300s as a problem. I think Turkey's rationale for the S 400 is now much better understood. The S 400 is an antidote to the Western threat. 

In fact, despite the fact that Turkey borders Saddam Hussein's Iraq, Baathist Syria and Iran, the most serious missile threats in the Middle East, backed for decades by North Korean technology, that is, despite the fact that it is the most suitable country in NATO to be turned into a missile defense dynamo, its allies have not shown Ankara the "interest" they have shown Greece. 

Another important issue is the S 400 launcher system. It is an anti-missile weapon system that can only fully utilize the capabilities of both the S-400 and Patriot strategic weapon systems within a holistic architecture. By architecture, I mean a set of sensors such as satellite capacity, radars, early warning aircraft that can detect a ballistic missile as soon as it is fired, and complementary systems at different altitudes and ranges that can work in harmony with the air and missile defense system. In other words, the Russian S-400, the American Patriot or the European Aster-30 Block 1 NT, whichever system is used, are sensors that can provide instant information to these systems and other defenders that can "step in" before these systems, or later if they miss the target. Therefore, air and missile defense systems can only be described as better or worse than each other under certain circumstances. 

In fact, the term "Radar Lock" is a very innocent description in NATO military literature. In fact, it is extremely dangerous; it is directly called "Missile Lock".  The implication of this is clear: weapons and weapon systems that have been released from the safety lock are dependent only on the press of a button, and in the air, on the pilot pulling the trigger. Even the trigger gap, the retaining gap, has been taken away. The retaining gap is an additional safety designed to prevent weapons and weapon systems from exploding due to involuntary contact. Let's refresh our memory, exactly thirty years ago, on October 2, 1992, the TCG Muavenet with a crew of 300 was hit by two Sea Sparrow missiles fired from the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-60) during the "NATO Decisiveness Demonstration-92" exercise in the Sea of Islands (Aegean). In the sad incident of that day, 5 martyrs and 22 wounded, including the ship commander, officers and enlisted personnel, my friends from the War Academies. (3) 

Just like this incident, the S 300 incident is not a simple incident. A missile can be fired after at least five stages. In other words, a guided missile cannot be fired without going from the lowest level to the highest admiral level. In other words, a missile cannot be fired by accident by pressing a single button. Each stage is explicitly confirmed by a verification system. 

All NATO missions are assigned by SACEUR, the Commander of NATO Allied Forces Europe, and NATO members are the custodians of the B1-B2, B52 strategic bombers sent to Europe by the United States for strategic support, as a kind of presence. NATO issues "Air Task Orders" to its member states, and the exercise is recorded, stored and documented by the Ramstein base from the beginning to the end of the mission. 

It should be noted, however, that NATO has been following a different parabolic curve in recent years.   In a NATO exercise that took place in Norway between November 8-17, 2017, a picture of Atatürk and the name of President Erdoğan were used as the "enemy painting". Is it conceivable that this could have been done unconsciously? Certainly not. Secretary General Stoltenberg's statement, "I apologize for the mistake that occurred" is nothing more than a mere glossing over. What about the warnings about the purchase of S-400 missiles, "It is your right to buy, but you will bear the consequences"? It was even NATO commanders who suggested that the US should cancel the delivery of F-35s if the S-400s were purchased. I repeat, these flights are not a national flight, but a NATO mission flight. All this is a threatening and harassing attitude of the US and Greece under the mask of NATO.  

What can we say, the road is a long and thin road. With the inheritance from the Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Turkey is following the situation closely and seriously with prudence and foresight, with the mission of being a great state. In addition to restraint and prudence, reciprocity, which means retaliation, paves the way for Ankara-centered decisions, dear readers. 

Footnotes:

(1) BBC News Türkçe, ABD-Yunanistan Savunma İşbirliği Anlaşması yenilendi ve genişletildi, 15 Ekim 2021; https://www.bbc.com/turkce/haberler-dunya-58921152/Erişim Tarihi 04.09.2022/

(2) Stelyo Berberakis, “Kiryakos Miçotakis kimdir? Yunanistan'ın ülke siyasetine damga vuran bir aileden gelen yeni başbakanı” BBC News Türkçe, Atina, 8 Temmuz 2019; https://www.bbc.com/turkce/haberler-dunya-48907540?ocid=socialflow_twitter/Erişim Tarihi 04.09.2022/

(3) Milliyet Gazetesi, 23 Yıl Önce Vurulan Muavenet’in Muhabere Subayı O Anları Anlattı, 04.10.2015; https://www.milliyet.com.tr/yerel-haberler/bursa/23-yil-once-vurulan-muavenet-in-muhabere-subayi-o-anlari-anlatti-10996087/ Erişim Tarihi 04.09.2022/