EDITOR’S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis). This news was first reported by the prominent warmongering megaphone, the Financial Times of London, which reported on Monday that EU leaders were trying to convince countries “who do not need them so critically,” like Greece and Spain, to send their missile systems to Ukraine. Greece was dealing with another argument, specifically for the Russian-made S-300 missiles stationed in Crete. The argument was that these missile systems “are obsolete,” and unfortunately, it was repeated by globalist puppet Mitsotakis. But if they are obsolete, why send them to Ukraine? They will work for Ukraine but not for Greece? If any Greek leader had real balls, they should stop the discussion right there and demand the EU and the US first to guarantee Greece’s sovereign rights, then offer systems to replace the S-300, and only then open their mouth and require the transfer of these weapons elsewhere. But they allow Turkey to keep its “casus belli” threat standing and then they demand from Greece to disarm. Unbelievable hypocrisy!
For example, why does the State Department push the policy that Greece should be the only country on Earth with less than 12 miles of a territorial zone? First, support Greece in expanding its territorial water zone instead of opposing her. Then, make other demands. But Greece, unfortunately, does not have real leaders. Mitsotakis and Dendias represented Greece in the EU meeting and neither one inspires confidence. Dendias was ready to sell “obsolete” Greek F-16 and Mirage fighters the other day…
BELOW IS THE NEWS FROM ZEROHEDGE.COM
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EU Leaders Trying To Convince Greece & Spain To ‘Sacrifice’ Their Own Anti-Air Defenses For Ukraine
NATO and European Union leaders are literally pressuring member states to sacrifice their own national defense for the sake of Ukraine, part of the ongoing saga of desperation which has led some Western nations to deplete domestic arms and ammo stockpiles.
A disturbing report by Financial Times published Monday says Greece and Spain are under intensifying pressure from Western allies to give up what few Patriot anti-air defense systems that they possess.
President Volodymyr Zelensky issued an urgent appeal Sunday on X, writing that “Patriots can only be called air defense systems if they work and save lives rather than standing immobile somewhere in storage bases.”
Commenting on Ukraine’s ongoing pleading, one Western official was cited in FT as saying, “We all know who has them, we all know where they are, and we all know who really needs them.”
Only Germany has so far answered the call by lately providing a single Patriot battery. FT reported on back-to-back meetings of EU foreign and defense ministers of the last days, where it’s been decided that Greece and Spain’s anti-air systems aren’t really crucial to their homeland defense:
Other EU leaders used a summit in Brussels last week to personally urge Spanish and Greek prime ministers Pedro Sánchez and Kyriakos Mitsotakis to donate some of their systems to Ukraine, according to people briefed on the discussions.
The two leaders, whose armed forces possess between them more than a dozen Patriot systems plus others such as S-300s, were told their need was not as great as Ukraine’s and that they did not face any imminent threat.
An EU diplomat said, “There are countries that are not in immediate need of their air defense systems, to be very honest.” This as “Each country is being asked to decide what it can spare,” according to the statement. Countries like Poland or those in the Baltics and Eastern Europe are considered too vulnerable at this moment to be asked to give up their defenses.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell is also ramping up the pressure, saying “I don’t have Patriots in Brussels, they are in the capitals, and it is up to them to take decisions.”
So this is what it has come to: first European populations are dubiously told that Putin is eyeing expansion of the war deeper into Europe, and next Western countries are told to make drastic decisions which severely weaken their own national security.
Greece in particular has faced long-running threats from Turkey, with the geopolitical rivals locked in a dispute over maritime territory which has at times very nearly resulted in a shooting war. This has happened on several occasions in the last couple of years. So certainly the Greek population is going to balk when EU leaders in faraway capitals lecture Greece about ‘not really needing’ anti-air protection. And if they are sent to Ukraine, there’s a chance they could be destroyed anyway.
Sure…keep exporting Greece’s air and other defense systems…that’s what Makarios did when he sold his stockpile of anti-aircraft missles shortly before the 1974 invasion…that model worked real well for Makarios, didn’t it?
The UK and the European Union subsequently proved “great allies” in enforcing the UN resolution demanding the Turks to withdraw troops didn’t they? Their citizens even bought tons of confiscated property from the “occupiers” in the occupied north, if you recall…
Let’s propose a different story for the Financial Times to print…ask Spain to move all its weaponry and blockade Gibraltar instead, demanding an immediate surrender of the rock back to Spanish sovereignty… :)
Maybe after that, the Financial Times can also urge Spain to send additional ordinance to its old colony, Argentina, and blockade the Falklands, now that the UK is out of the EU, weakened economically, and has depleted a fair amount of its military ordinance in the Ukraine… :)
All the world is a circus!