alexISS wrote:vaughanwilliams wrote:Doesn't follow. The Junta was going to collapse whether the Turks took part of Cyprus or all of it.
The Junta would collapse and the Americans would lose Greece completely if they would had gifted the whole island to Turkey, so they partitioned it instead. Get it now?
Ionnides disapproves u...
10. At this point Ioannides summed up as follows:
A) He stressed that he too had a God; he was definitely not anti-American; “even a jackass needed a post to be tied to” and in his case it was the U.S.
B) His hasty decision on 13 July might have been stupid. Instead of abandoning Cyprus and letting U.S. worry about its fate and pour money down another rathole, he had allowed love of country, a moral obligation to the Greek Cypriot nationalists and his “philotimo” to overrule logic and to assist Greek Cypriots.
http://history.state.gov/historicaldocu ... 30/d88#fn2
http://kostasmavroskoufis.blogspot.com/ ... pmt-4.html
It is clearly seen that on 13th of July 1974, Ionnides was ordered to "abandon" Cyprus... However, on 15th of July; Ionnides ordered the ring leaders of his National Guard in Cyprus to overthrow Makarios... Why?
According to his idiotic opinion he would have rescued U.S. worry about its fate and pour money down another rathole, he had allowed love of country, a moral obligation to the Greek Cypriot nationalists and his “philotimo” to overrule logic and to assist Greek Cypriots.
So when did Kissinger assure Ionnides that he could overthrow Makarios and Turkey wouldn't intervene?
Was his aim double Enosis? Apparantly, no. Greek Junta rejected Turkey's double Enosis proposal back in 1967.
Had there been no coup in Cyprus or coupists succeeded to stay in power, they would first have persecuted and intimidated the left-wingers aka so-called resistance fighters as they had done the leftists in Greece.
However left wing of Cyprus did not constitute even a little danger for US interests in cold war era.
Ionnides in his idiotic us-puppet mind supposedly would have served US interests and gain a strong position in eye of US for Greece's national interests.
Junta had made it clear in the begining of 1967 that they want an unconditional Enosis. Had they changed their minds after 7 years? Obviously no...
Had Junta succeeded in their plans; they would quickly have reinforced the Greek forces in Cyprus and declared Enosis.
In this case Turkey wouldn't dare to militarily intervene; accept the fait accompli as a defacto situation and via US, try to pressurize Junta to withdraw from Cyprus...
In idiotic mind of Ionnides, US would have stood by right wing controlled Greece instead of leftists led Turkey...
Even maybe Ionnides would offer to US more installations in Greece and most probably in Cyprus....
