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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis: I want to thank Emmanuel once again because he clearly reiterated yesterday that if ever — God forbid — Greece needs France’s support, France will be there.

American workers will use Israeli technology to bring more clean water to Texas. 🇺🇸🇮🇱 A partnership that benefits us!

Turkey 🇹🇷 is the future of Europe. Much like the late-stage Byzantine Empire, modern Europe finds itself at a civilizational crossroads, where a rich but aging internal structure is being met by a youthful, demographically 'vibrant' exterior... The transformation of Anatolia into a Turkish heartland was not an overnight conquest but a centuries-long "soft" integration followed by a political finality. This shift was fueled by a demographic vacuum; as Byzantine cities shrank due to plagues, constant warfare, and economic stagnation, the Oghuz Turks moved into the fertile interior not as mere invaders, but as settlers filling a space that the empire could no longer defend or inhabit. This mirrors the modern European paradox: a continent with world-class infrastructure and high-value institutions, yet one grappling with a birth rate far below replacement level and an rapidly aging workforce that effectively mandates large-scale migration to maintain social stability. The "Islamization" of the Byzantine lands followed a pattern of encirclement and institutional osmosis that finds modern parallels in the changing character of Europe’s urban centers. By the time Mehmed II took Constantinople in 1453, the city was a Greek island in a Turkish sea; the surrounding Balkans and Anatolian provinces had already transitioned culturally, linguistically, and economically. Today, as the Muslim share of the population in Western European nations is projected to rise toward 10–15% (and higher in specific urban hubs like Berlin, Marseille, or Birmingham) by the mid-21st century, we see a similar "frontier" culture moving into the core. This is not a simple "replacement" of people, but a transformation of the public square. Just as the Turkish beylics adapted Byzantine administrative and legal structures to suit their own Islamic frameworks—creating the unique Ottoman synthesis—modern Europe is beginning to see its legal and social institutions navigate the friction and fusion of secular Western values with the communitarian and religious traditions of its newest citizens. Ultimately, the future of Europe may not look like a sudden collapse, but rather a "Third Rome" rebranding. The Turks did not view themselves as the destroyers of Rome; they considered themselves its rightful successors, with the Sultan taking the title Kayser-i Rûm (Caesar of Rome). They kept the geography, the bureaucracy, and the strategic imperatives of the empire, but they changed its soul. The Europe of the 22nd century will remain a global center of power and culture, but its defining character will have shifted from a post-Christian secularism to a Turco-Islamic synthesis. This new Europe would be a product of demographic momentum—a civilization that, much like the Ottoman transition, maintains the "shell" of its predecessors’ institutions while filling them with the demographic vitality and religious conviction of a younger, more dynamic population.

Comparar Turquía con Grecia es una tontería. Los pescadores turcos podrían derrotar a Grecia incluso por sí solos.