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Η αναβάθμιση των βάσεων σε Πάφο και Μαρί εν τελεί χρηματοδοτείται απευθείας από τις ΗΠΑ — μια επένδυση με τεράστιο γεωπολιτικό αντίκρισμα για την Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία. Από παθητικός δέκτης ασφάλειας, σε ενεργό πάροχο των Δυτικών Δυνάμεων 🧵1/2

🇬🇷 is completing the first phase of its humanitarian assistance to Lebanon 🇱🇧. Consistent with its role as a pillar of stability in the Eastern Mediterranean, Greece stands firmly alongside the Lebanese Government and people, responding to the UN Flash Appeal with concrete action. Through Hellenic Aid, 🇬🇷 MFA Greece has: • Contributed €300,000 to the Lebanon Humanitarian Fund of United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs • Allocated €500,000 via World Health Organization to support Lebanon’s healthcare system • Delivered 3 tons of humanitarian aid in 🇱🇧, in coordination with the 🇬🇷 Ministry of National Defense. Greece reaffirms its steadfast commitment to Lebanon’s stability, sovereignty, and resilience, and to advancing coordinated international humanitarian action.

The UAE’s State Security Service has dismantled an Iranian-linked terror network and arrested 27 suspects accused of planning attacks aimed at undermining national unity and destabilizing the country through acts of terrorism and sabotage. VIA: @ariel_oseran

Pakistan’s Fragile Facade as US-Iran Broker: A Strategic Assessment of Dependency, Not Diplomacy linkedin.com/pulse/pakistan…

The EU AI gigafactories initiative: why Europe can’t afford to wait — and needs strong commitment now from both public and private sectors linkedin.com/pulse/eu-ai-gi…

Say goodbye to passports and boarding passes at airports – BusinessTech share.google/59c6kJ2NlY8ic4…

The United States and Greece are bringing our partnership to a historic new level. I was honored to join Minister of Defense @NikosDendias today in announcing that Greece will be paired with the great State of Florida through the @USNationalGuard State Partnership Program. We are committed to making sure we have the best fighting forces in the world, ready to tackle the challenges of the future. Congratulations, Greece and Florida! The future is bright for 🇺🇸 🇬🇷 . @SecWar @GovRonDeSantis

In 1821, under the rallying cry of “Freedom or Death,” Greeks forged their path to independence. Two centuries later, the relationship between our two great nations, rooted in faith, freedom, and love of country, is vibrant and expanding. I extend my best wishes to all Greeks for a happy and prosperous Independence Day and look forward to what we will achieve together in the year to come.

BREAKING: Greece just shot down two Iranian ballistic missiles over Saudi Arabia. A NATO member that signed no declaration of war against Iran used a Patriot battery operated by Greek soldiers on Saudi soil to intercept missiles targeting the SAMREF oil refinery in Yanbu on the Red Sea coast. Greek Defense Minister Dendias confirmed the engagement. Prime Minister Mitsotakis called it strictly defensive. It is the first time Greek military personnel have fired a weapon in combat since the battery was deployed under a bilateral agreement with Riyadh in November 2021. A European democracy that borders Turkey just entered the Middle East’s largest war to protect a refinery jointly owned by Saudi Aramco and ExxonMobil. The target tells the story. SAMREF is not a military installation. It is a 400,000-barrel-per-day refinery on Saudi Arabia’s western coast, far from the Strait of Hormuz, far from the front lines of Operation Epic Fury. Iran fired ballistic missiles and at least one drone at it. The missiles were intercepted by the Greek Patriot PAC-3. The drone impacted the complex with what Saudi authorities described as minor damage. Iran is no longer limiting its retaliation to Hormuz or the Gulf coast. It is reaching across the Arabian Peninsula to the Red Sea, targeting refineries that supply Europe and Asia through the Suez Canal rather than the strait. The geography of Iranian retaliation just doubled. This happened on March 19, the same day 23 nations signed a joint statement condemning Iran’s Hormuz closure and pledging readiness to ensure safe passage. Greece is not one of the 23 signatories. Greece did not sign the statement. Greece fired the interceptor. The country that pledged nothing on paper did more in three seconds of missile engagement than 23 signatures accomplished in three pages of diplomatic language. Readiness is a word. A Patriot launch is a verb. Trump told the world on March 21 that Europe, Japan, Korea and China will have to get involved in policing the strait. Greece got involved before he asked. It got involved not through a statement or a pledge or a fund but through a missile defence battery that has been sitting in Saudi Arabia for four years waiting for a moment that arrived on March 19 at the speed of an Iranian ballistic warhead. The bilateral agreement that put Greek soldiers in Yanbu was signed for exactly this scenario. The scenario arrived and the agreement held. The implications cascade. A NATO member has now engaged Iranian weapons in combat. Greece frames it as defensive, bilateral, and unrelated to the broader war. But the missile it intercepted was fired by the same IRGC that launched two intermediate-range ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia the following day. The same IRGC that hit Ras Laffan in Qatar. That hit Mina Al-Ahmadi in Kuwait twice. That put a cluster munition through a daycare roof in Rishon Lezion this morning. Greece intercepted missiles from an organisation that is simultaneously attacking six countries. The word defensive becomes complicated when the attacker’s target list includes half the region. Twenty-three nations signed a statement. One nation fired a Patriot. The question nobody is asking yet is which model scales. If Iran continues expanding its target geography from the Gulf to the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean, the 23-nation statement will need to become a 23-nation engagement. Greece did not wait for the statement to tell it what to do. It had a battery, a mandate, and a missile inbound. It fired. The refinery is still standing. The precedent is now set. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Η επιτυχία των μυστικών υπηρεσιών βασίζεται σε μεγάλο βαθμό στην ικανότητα διείσδυσης. Η Ελληνική Ανατολική Ρωμαϊκή Αυτοκρατορία αποτέλεσε τον πρόδρομο πολλών πετυχημένων σύγχρονων υπηρεσιών με τους εξής τρόπους: ▫️Λόγω ελληνιστικού υποβάθρου και γεωγραφικής εξάπλωσης, διέθετε πολλούς ανθρώπους που ήξεραν τόσο τα ελληνικά όσο και τις ντόπιες γλώσσες σε μεγάλο γεωγραφικό εύρος. ▫️Ήδη από την εποχή του Φιλίππου και του Αλέξανδρου, η κατασκοπεία αποτελούσε την προμετωπίδα των στρατιωτικών επιχειρήσεων. Η Αυτοκρατορία το αξιοποίησε αυτό στο έπακρο λόγω πολλών αντιπάλων και μικρού αριθμητικά στρατού. ▫️Η πολιτική του εκχριστιανισμού επέτρεπε την ταύτιση αλλογενών πληθυσμών με την Αυτοκρατορία, δημιουργώντας δεξαμενές στρατολόγησης βασισμένες στο θρησκευτικό συναίσθημα. ▫️Η κληρονομιά του Ηροδότου και του Ξενοφώντα, της εθνογραφικής περιγραφής, πέρασε στην Αυτοκρατορία με το εγχειρίδιο Scrinium Barbarorum το οποίο αποτελεί τον πρώτο οδηγό μυστικών υπηρεσιών. Η επιτυχία της αυτοκρατορίας βασίστηκε σε αυτές τις παραμέτρους. Μαθήματα για το σήμερα.

Greece Stands with Cyprus

For centuries in the Eastern Mediterranean, belonging to the Greek-speaking Orthodox community defined who was Greek. Cyprus not joining the modern Greek state does not make its people less Greek. States are political. Hellenism is civilizational. Greek Cypriots stand in the same historical continuum as Pontic Greeks, Smyrna Greeks, Dodecanese islanders, Epirots and Cretans. Different regions, same world. Modern borders did not create Greek identity. They inherited it.

🇬🇷🇮🇳🇱🇧 Lebanon formally expresses interest in joining the India–Middle East–Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) President of Lebanon Joseph Aoun submitted a formal request on February 25 to his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron to join IMEC, with Lebanese media describing the development as "important" since the Eastern Mediterranean country, due to political isolation, had been sidelined from major regional economic initiatives in recent years. IMEC, announced at the 2023 G20 summit in New Delhi, would link India to Europe via the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel, and then reach Greece and European markets by sea. In Beirut, Aoun recently discussed the initiative with French presidential envoy Gerard Mestrallet, with the Lebanese presidency stating that Beirut was ready to engage "within the framework of the initiative, in a way that serves its national interests and strengthens its logistical position in the region." Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has also ordered a comprehensive strategic study, backed by the World Bank, to assess how Lebanon's transport, energy, and trade sectors could integrate with neighbouring states under the corridor framework. However, several reports stated that Israel's geographic centrality to the corridor makes Lebanon's participation politically sensitive, and the two countries remain technically at war with no diplomatic ties. The Al-Akhbar newspaper described Beirut's interest as "a step closer to Israel", framing IMEC as a geopolitical project aimed at consolidating Israel's economic integration into the region despite a widespread domestic opposition to normalisation. The newspaper said that joining IMEC could amount to indirect normalisation. Yeghia Tashjian, Regional and International Affairs Cluster Coordinator at the American University of Beirut's Issam Fares Institute, said that IMEC reflects a broader US strategy to reshape the region's geo-economic order by positioning pro-Western states, particularly Gulf monarchies and Israel, as strategic transit hubs. "The corridor's success depends on political cooperation, including normalisation between Israel and Arab states, and stable security conditions," he noted. Tashjian added that while the Gaza conflict had disrupted aspects of the project, "it is now back on the table." Lebanese businessmen estimate that integration into IMEC could generate between $4 billion and $5 billion in annual revenue and create thousands of jobs over an eight to ten-year implementation period. Local political sources reported US pressure linking future energy cooperation and offshore gas exploration to Lebanon's alignment with regional energy networks that include Israel, Cyprus, and Greece.

Ευχαριστούμε την Ελληνική Κυβέρνηση για την ανταπόκρισή της σε συνέχεια της τηλεφωνικής επικοινωνίας που είχε σήμερα ο @PresidentCYP @Christodulides με τον Έλληνα Πρωθυπουργό @kmitsotakis. Στο πλαίσιο των αυξημένων προληπτικών μέτρων που λαμβάνονται λόγω των εξελίξεων στην ευρύτερη περιοχή, συμφωνήθηκε όπως η Ελλάδα αποστείλει δύο φρεγάτες του Πολεμικού Ναυτικού στην Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία. Πρόκειται για τη φρεγάτα «Κίμων» και ακόμη μία φρεγάτα, η οποία φέρει το σύστημα αντιμετώπισης μη επανδρωμένων αεροχημάτων «Κένταυρος». Παράλληλα, στο ίδιο πλαίσιο ενίσχυσης των προληπτικών μέτρων και της συνεργασίας μεταξύ Κυπριακής Δημοκρατίας και Ελλάδας, αποστέλλεται στην Κύπρο και ζεύγος αεροσκαφών F-16 της Ελληνικής Πολεμικής Αεροπορίας.

I had an action-packed visit to Washington, DC this week where I met with @POTUS and discussed the strides we have made in the United States-Greece relationship these past few months under his leadership. It was also a privilege to reconnect with my dear friends @VP JD Vance and @SecWar Pete Hegseth.

Greek companies sign landmark LNG deals in Washington | eKathimerini.com share.google/uF0x1ekqOk2uMy…

On February 27, 2026, the Department of State authorized the departure of non-emergency U.S. government personnel and family members of U.S. government personnel from Mission Israel due to safety risks. In response to security incidents and without advance notice, the U.S. Embassy may further restrict or prohibit U.S. government employees and their family members from traveling to certain areas of Israel, the Old City of Jerusalem, and the West Bank. Persons may wish to consider leaving Israel while commercial flights are available. Read the full message here>> il.usembassy.gov/travel-advisor…?

“Cyprus, Israel and Greece, Launch Joint Maritime Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (MarCCE). The Center, to be established and operated out of Nicosia, Cyprus, represents a strategic milestone in reinforcing the national and regional cyber resilience of the maritime sector across all three nations and the broader Mediterranean region”, 🇨🇾🇬🇷🇮🇱 gov.il/en/pages/mcce2…