Assessing Pompeo’s support for Greece

Crystal-clear rhetoric and powerful symbolism. The visit of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Greece met - if not exceeded - expectations.
Asked what Greece can expect from the US if Turkish troops were to land on a Greek island, Pompeo's response was surprisingly direct: "You can be confident that we will act in ways that protect and preserve these basic ideas of sovereignty, these basic ideas of the rule of law, and these basic ideas around the protection of private property," he said.
For a country which feels threatened and which has built its foreign policy on respect for international law, this was a welcome statement.
Speaking about Turkey's provocations inside Cyprus' exclusive economic zone (EEZ), Pompeo noted that Washington would continue its efforts to persuade Ankara that these actions are in nobody's interest. "The dispute must not be militarized,"...