The Greek armed forces are no gnat

Challenges on the Syrian front may be making certain associates of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's, and possibly even himself, wonder whether there may be something to gain from opening another front - in Cyprus or the Aegean.

With all due respect to the embattled nation in the southeast of Turkey, though, Greece is not Syria. A member of the European Union (along with Cyprus), a NATO pillar and with powerful ties and alliances with the United States and other important countries like France, Greece is not a negligible force.

It is wrong to analyze the Greek-Turkish equation solely on the basis of military arithmetic. Turkey is the stronger of the two on that front and especially after the effects of the decade-long crisis on the Hellenic Armed Forces. We know it, they know it. There's no need to sugarcoat the pill.

That said, Greece is also not a ...

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