I think it’s time our glorious leaders stop trying to sit with one ass on two chairs. Preferably before our Western partners realize that Cyprus failed to properly participate in the EU sanctions against the russian federation, and, by admission of our own Ministry of Finance, only froze 0.2% of the assets directly or indirectly connected to the persons on the EU sanctions list.
>After Crimea’s annexation, President Anastasiades was the only EU leader to accept an invitation from President Putin to attend a big parade in Red Square; three party leaders visited Crimea after its annexation at the invitation of Moscow; the Cyprus legislature passed a resolution calling on the government to work for the lifting of EU sanctions on Russia over Crimea; two party leaders publicly demanded that Russia was given a military base; at the EU Cyprus often argued against the imposition of sanctions. Should we mention how the former ambassador of Russia, until the day he left, was constantly meddling in domestic affairs and issuing directives?
The hypocrisy.
No chance.
Cypriot politicians think they’re some kind of amazing genius slick global political operators who can play both sides.
In reality they alienate the west, get threatened by Russia, get fucked by Turkey and then go on TV telling us how awesome they are and if it wasn’t for them it would be worse. But then if we elect them we probably deserve it.
We should apply for nato asap
>Cyprus must choose between Russia and the West
“Choose”? There is no “choice” allowed to us. Two NATO countries already occupy large parts of our island, they have their armies here, they have the very top of Troodos as a listening station and if we dared not to accept their demands they would do even worst things to Cyprus.
At the same time they do not give us the option to be part of NATO as an equal member. They take everything they want from Cyprus without providing any security to us. They essentially see us as their colony.
On the contrary they often promote the interests of Turkey and until recently they had an arms embargo on us instead of the invaders. So we had to look elsewhere for weapons and support at the UN security council to counter their pro-Turk policies.
If they supported us as they support Ukraine and if they treated Turkey as they treat Russia, then I would be the most pro-NATO person in the world. Unfortunately they do not do that and they will never do that because it is not about principles, but about interests.
Hi Cyprus. Choose the west, good chaps.
cyprus’s issue is that we are awash with russian money and are also members of the european union, and our plan seems to be to ride both of those horses into the sunset.
at the moment, it’s working out *quite well* for those in power. the eu has bigger fish to fry in terms of members and neighbours not towing the line on russia, and russia is in no position to demand absolute loyalty (and would probably rather have a foot inside the west’s camp, as it were).
however, the moment that the position of either the eu or russia hardens further, there could be an issue
Neutrality! Is the way. The geopolitical position Isa such that neutrality can bring the most
If only it had the choice…
First UK refusing independence. Then both UK and US encouraging Turkey to invade.
Then putting an arms embargo on the victim and doing essentially nothing to help Cyprus expel the invaders. On the contrary, selling all sorts of advanced weapons to Turkey.
Cyprus would LOVE to be part of NATO and have nothing to do with Russia. They didn’t give it a choice so far.
Russians moved in and invested. It’s hard to forcefully cut the major financial backer now. Give them an alternative, and they will take it.
You got the answer many times from our politicians but you refuse to recognise it. We need to have some kind of decent relations with all big powers or probably unficyp that gets renewed every 6 months by the UN security council will get cancelled at some point. First issue with that is that Turkey will immediately take over most of the green zone that we are “lending” to the UN. Then you will have “hot” incidents at the frontline daily which would affect security which then affects part of tourism and international investments. If you don’t believe that then you got no idea what is happening in Northern syria.
Cyprus is neither with the east nor the west, we are with whoever serves our interests.
Who is the west? If that’s NATO then why would we ever side with them, given that one of their member is occupying our island and another member has an overseas ~~colony~~ territory with military bases? All this without giving us the option to join NATO but still using our country as their airplane carrier against the Cypriot’s will.
is the west the EU? If yes so, why has the EU never supported a fellow member state the same way they support Ukraine, a non-member state? Why has there been no severe EU sanctions against Turkey? Is Cyprus even considered seriously within the union or are we just serving the interests of the big members?
Who is the east? Is that Russia and China? Both of whom have never actually invaded Cyprus, never imposed a military embargo on us, never used our island as their tax-free military base against the locals’s will. Isn’t Russia the biggest investor in our economy and a major supplier to our military and energy needs?
Don’t get me wrong, I am very pro-EU but I would want our “partners” to take us seriously for once and stop treating non-member states like Turkey better than they treat us. As for NATO, as long as they are the major oppressor of Cypriots all around the island and exploit our geographic location, we cannot side with them. The EU seriously needs more autonomy from NATO and stop being the bitch of non-member states like the US, UK and Turkey. Maybe an only European defence alliance would be ideal. As for Russia, we are not going to burry the relations with one if our most important economic partners just to keep being a piece of rock in the Mediterranean that the west can freely exploit. We sanctioned them for now, but after the war, if the EU doesn’t seriously reconsider their foreign affairs with our oppressors, we will reconsider our stance to Russia. Our only ally is Greece, but they suffer much from the same problems as we do and since it’s not the 50s anymore, any current plan for unification is science fiction. We are in the crossroads of the east and the west and we should act as such, depending on the circumstances. We go wherever Cypriot interest goes.
Don’t bite the hand that fed you 🇷🇺
It’s funny how those people that have 1,5 of their legs stepping in a grave are choosing what’s better for us.
A big percentage in cyprus support Russia but we cant and shouldnt turn the back to the global police man the US . We are a small island we cant mess with superpowers. In my opinion we should follow the EU policy .
You can’t be committed to the EU and allow yourself to get finger-diddled by “Ivan”.
Although polyamory is a thing, it doesn’t work in global politics.
Also polyamory would make all the fundamentalists’ head explode…which would be nice but not on a political level.
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I think it’s time our glorious leaders stop trying to sit with one ass on two chairs. Preferably before our Western partners realize that Cyprus failed to properly participate in the EU sanctions against the russian federation, and, by admission of our own Ministry of Finance, only froze 0.2% of the assets directly or indirectly connected to the persons on the EU sanctions list.
>After Crimea’s annexation, President Anastasiades was the only EU leader to accept an invitation from President Putin to attend a big parade in Red Square; three party leaders visited Crimea after its annexation at the invitation of Moscow; the Cyprus legislature passed a resolution calling on the government to work for the lifting of EU sanctions on Russia over Crimea; two party leaders publicly demanded that Russia was given a military base; at the EU Cyprus often argued against the imposition of sanctions. Should we mention how the former ambassador of Russia, until the day he left, was constantly meddling in domestic affairs and issuing directives?
The hypocrisy.
No chance.
Cypriot politicians think they’re some kind of amazing genius slick global political operators who can play both sides.
In reality they alienate the west, get threatened by Russia, get fucked by Turkey and then go on TV telling us how awesome they are and if it wasn’t for them it would be worse. But then if we elect them we probably deserve it.
We should apply for nato asap
>Cyprus must choose between Russia and the West
“Choose”? There is no “choice” allowed to us. Two NATO countries already occupy large parts of our island, they have their armies here, they have the very top of Troodos as a listening station and if we dared not to accept their demands they would do even worst things to Cyprus.
At the same time they do not give us the option to be part of NATO as an equal member. They take everything they want from Cyprus without providing any security to us. They essentially see us as their colony.
On the contrary they often promote the interests of Turkey and until recently they had an arms embargo on us instead of the invaders. So we had to look elsewhere for weapons and support at the UN security council to counter their pro-Turk policies.
If they supported us as they support Ukraine and if they treated Turkey as they treat Russia, then I would be the most pro-NATO person in the world. Unfortunately they do not do that and they will never do that because it is not about principles, but about interests.
Hi Cyprus. Choose the west, good chaps.
cyprus’s issue is that we are awash with russian money and are also members of the european union, and our plan seems to be to ride both of those horses into the sunset.
at the moment, it’s working out *quite well* for those in power. the eu has bigger fish to fry in terms of members and neighbours not towing the line on russia, and russia is in no position to demand absolute loyalty (and would probably rather have a foot inside the west’s camp, as it were).
however, the moment that the position of either the eu or russia hardens further, there could be an issue
Neutrality! Is the way. The geopolitical position Isa such that neutrality can bring the most
If only it had the choice…
First UK refusing independence. Then both UK and US encouraging Turkey to invade.
Then putting an arms embargo on the victim and doing essentially nothing to help Cyprus expel the invaders. On the contrary, selling all sorts of advanced weapons to Turkey.
Cyprus would LOVE to be part of NATO and have nothing to do with Russia. They didn’t give it a choice so far.
Russians moved in and invested. It’s hard to forcefully cut the major financial backer now. Give them an alternative, and they will take it.
You got the answer many times from our politicians but you refuse to recognise it. We need to have some kind of decent relations with all big powers or probably unficyp that gets renewed every 6 months by the UN security council will get cancelled at some point. First issue with that is that Turkey will immediately take over most of the green zone that we are “lending” to the UN. Then you will have “hot” incidents at the frontline daily which would affect security which then affects part of tourism and international investments. If you don’t believe that then you got no idea what is happening in Northern syria.
Cyprus is neither with the east nor the west, we are with whoever serves our interests.
Who is the west? If that’s NATO then why would we ever side with them, given that one of their member is occupying our island and another member has an overseas ~~colony~~ territory with military bases? All this without giving us the option to join NATO but still using our country as their airplane carrier against the Cypriot’s will.
is the west the EU? If yes so, why has the EU never supported a fellow member state the same way they support Ukraine, a non-member state? Why has there been no severe EU sanctions against Turkey? Is Cyprus even considered seriously within the union or are we just serving the interests of the big members?
Who is the east? Is that Russia and China? Both of whom have never actually invaded Cyprus, never imposed a military embargo on us, never used our island as their tax-free military base against the locals’s will. Isn’t Russia the biggest investor in our economy and a major supplier to our military and energy needs?
Don’t get me wrong, I am very pro-EU but I would want our “partners” to take us seriously for once and stop treating non-member states like Turkey better than they treat us. As for NATO, as long as they are the major oppressor of Cypriots all around the island and exploit our geographic location, we cannot side with them. The EU seriously needs more autonomy from NATO and stop being the bitch of non-member states like the US, UK and Turkey. Maybe an only European defence alliance would be ideal. As for Russia, we are not going to burry the relations with one if our most important economic partners just to keep being a piece of rock in the Mediterranean that the west can freely exploit. We sanctioned them for now, but after the war, if the EU doesn’t seriously reconsider their foreign affairs with our oppressors, we will reconsider our stance to Russia. Our only ally is Greece, but they suffer much from the same problems as we do and since it’s not the 50s anymore, any current plan for unification is science fiction. We are in the crossroads of the east and the west and we should act as such, depending on the circumstances. We go wherever Cypriot interest goes.
Don’t bite the hand that fed you 🇷🇺
It’s funny how those people that have 1,5 of their legs stepping in a grave are choosing what’s better for us.
A big percentage in cyprus support Russia but we cant and shouldnt turn the back to the global police man the US . We are a small island we cant mess with superpowers. In my opinion we should follow the EU policy .
You can’t be committed to the EU and allow yourself to get finger-diddled by “Ivan”.
Although polyamory is a thing, it doesn’t work in global politics.
Also polyamory would make all the fundamentalists’ head explode…which would be nice but not on a political level.