By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
March 3, 2026
Greece, after having rushed many years ago to bury it, has suddenly decided to “resurrect from the dead” the “unified defense doctrine”(*). It says it will send two frigates and four aircraft to defend Cyprus.
But the doctrine was created so that Greece and Cyprus could defend themselves against the Turkish threat — not to assist in unprovoked attacks by third states against forces friendly to Hellenism.
Of course, a frigate and a few aircraft cannot intercept drones and missiles that even the heavily advertised — yet apparently quite porous — “Iron Dome” cannot intercept.
Most likely, those in power, acting on behalf of the United States and Israel, have found an opportunity to move Greek state and military forces closer to the theater of war, in case the supposed “strategic ally,” genocidal Israel, happens to need them. The same Israel that stood behind the Cyprus issue and Turkey’s invasion, behind the Annan Plan — if not even the Greek “bail out” and the Cypriot “bail in” programs — that controls and monitors everything and everyone in Greece and Cyprus, and now seems to want to colonize Cyprus! With such allies, who needs enemies?
Besides, where exactly will the ships and aircraft go? To the Evangelos Florakis Naval Base, which Cyprus has made available to US and Israeli vessels, and to the Andreas Papandreou Air Base, which they are preparing to hand over to the Americans! They have turned the island into a colony again; those in power have sold it off and now tremble at the consequences. They filled Cyprus with Americans, Israelis, British, and French, and now scratch their empty heads trying to understand why it has become a target.
The iron domes and the Greek ships and aircrafts in Cyprus can protect it as much as the wooden walls protected Athens. What truly protected Cyprus in the past — and what could constitute its real defensive shield today — was the proud and multidimensional policy of Makarios, Vassos Lyssarides, and their successors.(**)
Cyprus can indeed protect itself effectively by following the example of Spain, which is literally saving Europe’s honor.
It was that policy which in the past enabled tiny Nicosia to secure United Nations resolutions safeguarding its sovereignty and independence. Today, with the support it provides — along with Greece — to NATO’s war in Ukraine, to the EU’s self-destructive sanctions, to the genocide of the Palestinians, and to the abolition of the entire Charter of the United Nations and of International Law, with its submission to the new Hitlers of our time, Cyprus — like Greece — is exhausting whatever moral, diplomatic, and political capital it has left and is digging its own grave.
A state’s security is first and foremost a matter of policy, and only secondarily a matter of technical means and weapons. Greece hosted safe Olympic Games not because it procured the exorbitantly expensive and ultimately non-functional C4I system, but because of its relations with the Palestinians and the Arab world and the immense political and diplomatic capital that those in power have since scattered to the four winds.
Every cloud has a silver lining, they say. The strike on RAF Akrotiri now seems at least to have awakened the Cypriot people, who, as I am told, are furious at the United States and Israel. Unfortunately, Cyprus — like almost all Western countries — lacks political subjects capable of expressing the will of its people. Everyone in the West, and sometimes beyond it, seems vulnerable to global networks of corruption and crime, such as the empire of Epstein — the same one that has ensnared Donald Trump.
Many on the island have now remembered that British bases should not exist, though most of them did nothing in the past to remove them.
But the base was not struck as a British base; it was struck because American forces are stationed there, as was indirectly but clearly suggested by a general of the “Revolutionary Guards.”
Indeed, the British bases should not exist. But should American forces be stationed on the island? Should the Andreas Papandreou Air Base be handed over to the United States? If Cypriot officials continue as they are, they will end up renaming it “Henry Kissinger,” since they are now completing his work. (***)
Should politicians who rightly speak about the British bases — essentially about Cyprus’s colonial past — not also say something about its colonial future, about the Americans and Israelis who have almost turned Cyprus into their colony? Or perhaps, by expelling the British, they merely wish to deliver their island, cleansed of other foreign presences, to Israel and the United States.
If one must — and indeed must — support the abolition of all remnants of British colonialism, why should one support American, Israeli, and NATO neo-colonialism?
For the first time in its history, spanning thousands of years, the Greek island of Cyprus — as Nazim Hikmet called it — risks being divided into a Jewish and a Turkish Cyprus, with the Greek population, over time, taking the road to a global Diaspora, thus vindicating the foresight of the founder of the Zionist Movement, Theodor Herzl.
PS. This article had already been written when we learned that the United States requested the deployment of American troops to Cyprus for the … humanitarian support of the population. They take everything from us and mock us on top of it.
In reality, the American troops and the anti-aircraft systems accompanying them will go to Cyprus to replace U.S. bases that were struck and to shield Israel — and they will become a prime target for the Iranians.
Moreover, the mockery of the Greek people by the leaders of Greece and Cyprus should cease. Both Greece and Cyprus have helped and continue, unfortunately, to help in various and unlawful ways both the genocide of the Palestinians — one of the greatest crimes against humanity — and the crude and unprovoked attack against Iran and now Lebanon. Do they not realize they are insulting our intelligence and making themselves ridiculous when they promise not to … do it in the future? As for Mr. Mitsotakis, who now suddenly remembers “the whole Hellenism,” one does not know whether to laugh or to cry.
(*) This “doctrine” was adopted by the Greek government of Andreas Papandreou in 1993 in order to provide coordination for the defense of both Greece and Cyprus from Turkey. It was gradually abandoned after some years, under the pressure of Israel and the US.
(**) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makarios_III, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vassos_Lyssarides
(***) The author makes allusion to the role of Henry Kissinger in organizing the coup and the subsequent Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974.
Published first in Militaire.gr
