"The Second Battlefield in Europe", it is about to send it?

Author:Global Times Time:2022.09.13

The two latest upgraded F-16 fighters were delivered to Greece on the 12th. This seemingly not eye -catching news indicates that a serious crisis in Europe, especially NATO, is still upgrading.

Will the "European Second Battlefield" be released when it is touched?

This kind of concerns in the United States and Europe's public opinion have exacerbated.

This kind of concern is not unprecedented. In recent days, the dispute between Greece and Turkey has not shown no signs. The United States to help Greece upgrade fighters is only the latest details of the situation upgraded. In addition, Ankara accused the Greek maritime police ship fire on the cargo ship carrying the Turks and used the air defense system to aim at the patrolling Turkish fighter.

Greece accused Turkey's "war threat" ...

Higuki is a member of NATO. So what is NATO? What is the "surprising" role as the actual leader of NATO?

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Another conflict similar to the Ukrainian crisis is on the European continent?

When relations with Turkey with neighbors were increasingly tense, Greece received two upgraded F-16 fighters on September 12.

In recent years, Greece has not spent a little money to buy weapons and equipment from the United States and France to deal with the threat from Turkey. The latest plan costs 1.5 billion US dollars to upgrade 83 F-16 to the most advanced version of the European active model. It is also led by Lockchid Martin, USA, and completed before 2027.

General Floorus, the chairman of the Greek Chiefs Chief of Staff, poked at Turkey at the speech at the ceremony of the day. He said that once the upgrade is completed, "any potential invaders" must think twice.

"Invadator", this is also the recent "allegations" of Turkish President Erdogan.

The Greek Prime Minister Mizetaki said on the 11th: "Turkey is provoking the tension and depicting Greece as the so -called invaders." He also said that the recent remarks of Turkish President "are unacceptable."

In the last half of the month, Greece and Turkey, also a member of NATO, have continued to upgrade.

The latest wave of friction is the "shot shot" on September 10.

Turkey has accused the Greek maritime police offset "harassing fire" to cargo ships driving in international waters.

The Turkish side announced a video of mobile phones. The video showed that a Greek maritime boat appeared next to the cargo ship and there were about 12 shots. A crew shouted in Turkish, and they were attacked. In the picture, there are traces of suspected bouncing holes on the ceiling of the cargo ship and the ceiling of the cab.

The "shot" did not cause casualties.

The Greek side admitted that it was alarm, but that was because the ship refused to be inspected.

Going forward, it is not unusual to deal with evil.

In May of this year, Erdogan has announced all communication channels for cutting off Greek Tu: "For me, from now on, there is no one named Mizetaki."

It was only at the end of August, and the tension of Xitu had a tension.

Ankara claims that the Greek army uses the S-300 air defense system to target the Turkish F-16 fighter in patrolling, and also said that Greece will be militarized by the island near the Aegean coastline of Turkey.

Erdogan put a lot of ruthless words for this: "Suddenly acting overnight!"

The wording was said by Erdogan, which threatened to take military operations against Syria and Iraq's Kurdish militants. In fact, Turkey did take many military operations.

But in Greece, Erdogan said this for the first time and was generally regarded as a threat to martial arts.

"Once the time comes, we will take the necessary means. As we said, we can act suddenly overnight."

Erdogan's words are very polite. "There are some illegal threats to our illegal threats. If these illegal threats continue, we will lose patience."

He reminded Greece to keep in mind Izmir's historical lessons: "Greece, look at history, and review the past. If you do too much, the price will be very heavy." The Battle of Izyl was 100 years ago, Greece and Greece and Turkey's contest around Simai (Izmir) ended with a full defeat of the Greek army.

Faced with this series of accusations of Erdogan, the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded that Turkey would not follow Turkey's "positive and inferior threats every day." Athens asked NATO, the European Union, and the United Nations to condemn Akara's "war threat" remarks. "If you do not do this in time or underestimate the seriousness of the matter", the current bilateral tension may be upgraded to regional conflicts.

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The upgrade of Higu's tension seems to be coincidental.

In recent years, Greece has upgraded its military equipment with Turkey's neighboring islands. Tens of thousands of soldiers have been deployed on Cruzes and Lesworth Island, and relatively strong military relations with Western countries such as the United States and France have also been established.

Ankara is getting more and more difficult to hide.

Moreover, Turkey will hold a general election next year. According to analysts, the election is approaching, and the Erdogan government may use the conflict of Turkish to seek support for domestic nationalists.

In addition, continuous high inflation and geopolitical turmoil in the region have also caused these two countries to face increasingly domestic economic pressure.

Many factors are superimposed to make some scholars pessimistic about the conflict of Xitu.

Some scholars believe that the contradiction between Greek and the earth belongs to the old conflict and has been stretched for centuries. It began the Greek independence war from 1821-1829. The Greeks have always tried to recapture their historical territories from Turkey, from Constantinople to Little Asia. This eventually led to the Greek Turkey War from 1919 to 1922. "They are so inconvenient, and the conflict is out."

Although, when asked whether Erdogan's recent remarks meant the prelude to the conflict of the Higuki armed armed, the Greek Prime Minister said, "I think this will not happen." However, he went on to say: "Once (conflict) occurs, Turkey will be destroyed."

Under the stalemate, both Greek and the two countries thought of seeking "organization".

Just last week, on the 7th, Athens wrote a letter to the United Nations, the European Union, and NATO, asking for formal condemnation of the "war threat" remarks of Turkey. Ankara's similar actions were earlier. On the 1st, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had sent a letter to the EU member states and the United Nations Secretary -General, the senior representative of the EU diplomacy and security policy, and the secretary -general of NATO to clarify the related positions and views of the earthwork.

How to mediate and resolve this internal 化, NATO's statement and role have attracted much attention.

But as some media broke, NATO actually "refused to involve in -depth intervention". NATO Secretary -General Stoltenberg made an effort. When he visited the Tu on the 5th, he announced that it would establish a "military conflict downgrade mechanism" in the East China Sea.

But NATO's mediation ability or willingness seemed to end.

Russia and Ukraine's conflict is still continuing, and NATO is obviously worried that Higuki will weaken the unity of Europe and NATO, and this crack may be used by Moscow. But what can I worry about? After all, Higu's grievances have troubled this military group for a day or two, but for decades, but NATO has actually been unable to fundamentally mediate.

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Especially considering the attitude of the United States, it is even more difficult to resolve the crisis of the Greek soil in a short time.

An analysis of the recent article on the Peninsula TV website has played a vital role in dealing with the dispute between member states as a leader in NATO. However, in the dispute in Higuki, Washington "played the opposite role".

Compared with NATO, he carefully appeased when he was treating the two parties. The United States not only stood on the side of Athens not only in the statement, but it was said that the local warnings of the Turkey have not been beneficial to Greece recently. Military security and other actual actions support Greece.

An example of Ankara's dissatisfaction is that in July of this year, the US House of Representatives passed a bill to set up restrictions on the sale of F-16 fighters to Turkey, which actually hindered the relevant operations of the Biden government. One of them is clearly "protecting Greece", which stipulates that even if the F-16 is sold to Turkey, these fighters cannot be used as "led the airspace of the Voice of Greece".

The obvious "favoritism" of the United States made Ankara dissatisfied. Eldor even "threatened" if the United States did not sell the F-16, Turkey would buy Russian military aircraft.

In addition to these actions, Ankara is also worried that the United States has more direct military support for Greece.

A few months ago, Eldor publicly accused that nine military bases established in Greece in Greece were targeted at Turkey.

These U.S. bases are "targeting", why is it set here? Erdogan visited, "They are against Russia ... but this is a lie." The Turkish president bluntly said that Washington was dishonest, "their attitude towards Turkey is obvious."

Ankara's precautionary psychology is not unreasonable.

A reality visible to the naked eye is that since the outbreak of the Russian -Ukraine conflict, Turkey, a member of NATO, has been pursuing a balanced or more independent foreign policy and refused to follow the West to sanction in Russia. Erdogan even criticized the West's "provocative policy" to Russia.

In this context, many analysts believe that such incidents such as the Higher Turkey conflict have been regarded as an opportunity to put pressure on Turkey to "show punishment."

In addition to the United States, the European Union and one of the European leaders, France also chose to stand in Greece this time.

The European Union said on the 5th that Turkish leaders have caused great concern for the hostility of Greece's sustainability. France not only issued a similar statement, but also expressed support for the actual actions of the 18 Greek Georgian fighters with half -sale.

NATO is unable to mediate. In order to restrain Turkey, the major member states such as the United States and France obviously pulled the bias and even the two sides in the military security. In addition, the domestic political and economic situation of the Greek soil, especially the elections of the two years and the two years. You may choose to show strong to win the votes ...

Under such complicated internal and external factors, it is no wonder that even some media in the United States and Europe have begun to worry. It is difficult to say when the Russian and Ukraine conflict ends. Essence

Source: Make up one knife

Writing: Sword Laughing Sister

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