Comments by "William Davis" (@williamdavis9562) on "Turkey’s power plays in the Mediterranean" video.

@chrismavroudis2330 Reuniting the island would be insanity when one side has shown it's willingness to massacre and ethnically cleanse a small minority group on the island. What sort of guarantees would this small vulnerable group have that they won't be massacred again by the majority? Best bet, formalize the partition and let each side go their own way. Only thing that makes sense at this point. The unification ship sailed with ethnic cleansing and massacres.
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@Shawn, lately France has had an amazing ability to always back the wrong horse in international conflicts. Not sure if it's chutzpah or good ol stupidity.
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They prefer to keep their people dumbed down and arguing over nonsense while they play the Empire from starwars.
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@kostasdinos8982 I'd imagine the Greeks are using Hitler's strategy of appeasement no? The more the Turks as the negotiate the deeper the Greeks go in with their demands of how much territorial waters their islands have. I'm thinking the Turks have had enough.
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Using Tiny islands to block an entire nation out of a body of water on which it has the largest coastline is not "maximalistic" I'm afraid to know what your defintion of maximalistic is.
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@ednabirkdale7403 According to which metric? They're slowly being pushed out of North Africa. In the Caucasus theatre where they had influence in the Armenian and Azeri disputes, today a war has started there and the winning side basically gave France the middle finger when it wanted to talk. Recently they tried an American style powerplay in the eastern med by sending their Navy into try to intimidate Turkey to get out of Greece's waters. What did Turkey do? They doubled down and sent more ships into the region and Macron had to pull her Navy back tail tucked between their legs. You should never go with a show of force if you're not prepared to use force. Don't think other nations didn't notice what happened here. Few nations fear France and less and less respect France everyday. Is this what you call France's influence on the global stage increasing? In 30 years France won't have any say in anything outside of the European Union. It will be a region power, nothing more. Hell that may even be the case today.
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@funbun420 You might want to read my comment again skippy.
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@Ellinon_Vasileus You can use all the cheap rhetoric you want but you do realize in many instances around the globe where one nation has a small island off the coast of another nation, they don't call a continental shelf on it, it's called good neighborly relations. But you can continue to push your neighbor as far as you can push your neighbor. Just don't come crying to the rest of us when one day they decide to push back.
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@Ellinon_Vasileus You can claim a person is hypocritical and full of lies but you do realize you have to actually establish why that's true. You simply can't have an emotional meltdown, throw baseless claims and expect to be taken seriously. My point still stands, if you guys want to continue what you're doing, knock yourselves out. I'm merely saying don't come crying to us when your neighbors decide to push back. You want war? Great, go fight it. You can't expect the world to pay your bills and fight your wars, just sayin....
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