miltiades wrote:YFred wrote:miltiades wrote:YFred wrote:miltiades wrote:observer wrote: I don't think that they were ever going to get involved in EU military exercises as they are rather insignificant compared with NATO exercises.
At the moment !!
Come on Milti, can Cyprus ever become militarily significant to any organisation other than offering bases in the med?
Can we be realistic in our capabilities please?
Sometime in the not too distant future the EU will emerge as the new world superpower . Cyprus as well as all other EU member nations will by definition become a part of that European and world superpower.
On a related topic , the recent financial predicaments of Greece that some suggested might signal the ...end of the mighty Euro , have proven that the EU is a financial superpower right now and challenging the US $ emerging as the new currency of the world. Who is to say that in 5 , 10 or more years the EU will not become the military superpower ?
No matter what happens to the eu and that is debateable; the relevance of Cyprus will always be insignificant compared to super powers. When we are invited to the dinner table we must know our place. Just because we sit at the table, does not give us equal power. Power is economic first and military second.
We should aim to demilitarise Cyprus so such atrocities can never happen again.
Fred , you know full well where I stand .
The fact remains that regardless how " insignificant " Cyprus might be , Cyprus is a part of the wider European Union. Fact .
At the moment the EU determines most of a nation's contact in commerce , agricalture and every other activity that the nation engages in.
In future , military commitment will be established whether we like it or not we are now a part of the EU .
Milti, I sincerely hope that you are wrong and the future has no armies in europe. If Europe stopped economic oppression of the thirld world there would be no threat from anywhere what so ever. All Alqaida is saying to the west is get out of Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Arab lands. If that was not the case, do you really think that they would have attacked any US interests in the world.
Long before the Arabs attacked US do you remember the incedent in early 80's when Israel attacked Lebonan and US boats bombed Lebonan from the sea, untill couple of truck loads of explosives blew up one of the Amercian bases in the area and the yanks couldn't run away fast enough.
Yanks have brought it on to themselves. They have to stop trying to dominate everybody, and then they will find peace.
