Greece and Turkey are adamant about retaining their Russian missiles

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1. In other news, the water is wet.

2. Sorry Forbes, I won’t disable my adblocker.

3. First off, the S-300 are in Greece only because Turkey threatened Cyprus, the buyer, with war.

   >Greece’s S-300s were initially meant for Cyprus but were transferred to Crete in the late 1990s after Turkey threatened to preemptively destroy the system if it arrived in Nicosia, triggering a tense crisis.

   Secondly, we will never give up weapons UNLESS, as stated repeatedly, a replacement is procured.

   I “wonder” why EU politicians continue to ignore the issue that we are threatened with war regularly and a war has almost started with Turkey multiple times since WW2.

   And Erdogan is not the issue.

   **CHP, the Turkish opposition has been saying for close to a decade that 18 islands are under Greek occupation and “something must be done”.**

   **They promised to take back the “occupied islands” if they won the 2019 elections.**

   And I can keep going with statements by all major parties except the Kurdish one.
   Erdogan is not the problem, he is a symptom.

4. While full scale war seems unlikely, a few potshots and limited exchanges are definitely on a table, and AD systems would definitely come in handy. Even then, Russia just showed us that you can never say never.

   Pretty delusional to expect Greece to give those away. Maybe some old M48/M60 but again, Ukraine has shown that a healthy reserve of tanks is pretty neat when push comes to shove.