by Nikitas » Sat Nov 01, 2014 12:57 am
Lucky that Rolandis was not a diplomat of any former ottoman province, if he had been nations like Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia, Serbia, Egypt and all other Arab contries would not exist today.They would have cowered as not to rile the ruthless Turks.
He does not deal with another possible scenario, that there are powers stronger than Turkey who do not want the gas to go to Turkey. They are exerting as much pressure on RoC as those ridiculous ships in the EEZ, perhaps more. Germany has already said these are European energy resources. Rolandis proably missed it, maybe he does not read German. The French have said as much and last week the Italians said their companies have the right to exploit "European energy deposits".
They do not give a crap about us, but we are a good legitimising system for their exploration and much easier to deal with than the Turks.