17 - Kitsikis's interview to Sputnik

Moscow 

17 - Kitsikis's interview to Sputnik

Interview to Sputnik News,Moscow,

28 August 2020

To Andrei Savenkov

 

Dear Andrei,

 

1 - There is no intention whatsoever neither from Turkey nor from Greece to go to war in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterannean.

 

2 - The whole crisis has been pre-arranged by the Western Powers to force the two sides to sit down and agree on an overall settlement of their disputes in the shape of a joint-venture of a common exploitation and not in a separation of profits and losses.

 

3 - Because of the election period in the United States till November 3, President Trump has left the initiative of directing the agreement to its otherwise rival Germany, knowing the influence of Merkel on both Mitsotakis and Erdogan, awaiting his sure further presence as President after November 3, 2020, when he will take over the lead of this coming Greek-Turkish common venture.

 

4 - President Trump knows that in case of success of his efforts as leader of the Greek-Turkish Ensemble he will have in some way to compensate his friend Russian President Putin in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean.

 

5 - Still there remains the small possibility of an accident that would lead to confrontation and also to the now unpredictable character of President Erdogan. Truly, Erdogan, after the failed attempt of 2016 to assassinate him has become another man determined to take incredible risks that he would have never taken before July 2016.

 

6 - All in all there should be optimism from the American side in the success of the building of a Greek-Turkish wall against the further expansion of the Chinese New Silk Road westward, considered as the main geopolitical threat for Donald Trump`s strategy.

 

Yours truly,

 

Prof. Dr. Dimitri Kitsikis