{"id":11861,"date":"2019-06-08T11:57:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T18:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11861"},"modified":"2019-06-08T11:57:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T18:57:54","slug":"greece-finds-new-footing-as-a-player-on-the-world-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/greece-finds-new-footing-as-a-player-on-the-world-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece Finds New Footing as a Player on the World Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ATHENS\u2014After Greece temporarily hosted a pair of U.S. military drones, Greek Defense Minister Panagiotis Kammenos said last fall that, \u201cIt\u2019s very important for Greece that the United States deploy military assets in Greece on a more permanent base.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed, Greece just took delivery of some 70 military helicopters that it had purchased from the U.S., and there have been discussions about basing American drones, air tankers and other military aircraft on Greek soil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COSCO, a state-owned Chinese shipping and logistics services company, has invested more than 3.5 billion euros in renovating the historic Greek port of Piraeus, which is now the second-largest port in the Mediterranean. The Chinese brag that it will soon become the busiest. The massive renovation is part of China\u2019s 35-year lease of two of the port\u2019s container terminals and the Chinese purchase of a majority stake in Piraeus\u2019 port authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite recent spats, Vladimir Putin\u2019s Russia remains a supposed ally of Greece, given historic religious ties and the envisioned completion of a natural-gas pipeline that will supply Russian gas to energy-starved Greece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amgreatness.com\/2019\/06\/05\/greece-finds-new-footing-as-a-player-on-the-world-stage\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness ATHENS\u2014After Greece temporarily hosted a pair of U.S. military drones, Greek Defense Minister Panagiotis Kammenos said last fall that, \u201cIt\u2019s very important for Greece that the United States deploy military assets in Greece on a more permanent base.\u201d Indeed, Greece just took delivery of some 70 military helicopters that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[294,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-35j","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10738,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/americas-indispensable-friends\/","url_meta":{"origin":11861,"position":0},"title":"America\u2019s Indispensable Friends","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 16, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"By Victor Davis Hanson\/\/ National Review \u00a0 As long as the U.S. remains good to weaker but humane states located in dangerous neighborhoods, it will remain great as well. \u00a0 The world equates American military power with the maintenance of the postwar global order of free commerce, communications, and travel.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Kurds&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Kurds","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/kurds\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":683,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/greece-alone-and-broke-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":11861,"position":1},"title":"Greece Alone and Broke&#8211;Again","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 26, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The recent indecisive Greek elections could be summed up by two general themes: Greeks want to stay in, and expect help from, the Eurozone. But they still do not want to take the necessary medicine to stop borrowing billions of euros from northern\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/the-world\/europe\/economy-europe\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":894,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-sick-man-of-europe\/","url_meta":{"origin":11861,"position":2},"title":"The Sick Man of Europe","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 18, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson Defining Ideas Why are the Greeks such whiners? Look to their tragic history and geography.\u00a0 Not long ago, European Union bankers gave the Greeks a \u20ac110 billion bailout \u2014 along with stern recommendations to stop cooking their books, to go after tax cheaters, to trim fat\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/the-world\/europe\/economy-europe\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":954,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/greek-tragedies\/","url_meta":{"origin":11861,"position":3},"title":"Greek Tragedies","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 22, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"br Victor Davis Hanson NRO's\u00a0The Corner There are a lot of new twists to the old story of massive demonstrations in Greece. This is the first time in my life (I first went to Greece in 1973) that I can remember Greek rioting and demonstrations that were not anti-American. Oh,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Greece&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Greece","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/the-world\/europe\/greece\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1613,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/greek-tragedies-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":11861,"position":4},"title":"Greek Tragedies","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 10, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Violent reaction to bad news in Greece is unique but not surprising given its past. by Victor Davis Hanson Wall Street Journal Online Draping the Acropolis with a hammer-and-sickle banner might seem a stupid public relations stunt \u2014 especially as a bankrupt Greece seeks to reassure foreign capitalist investors to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;May 2010&quot;","block_context":{"text":"May 2010","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/archives\/2010\/may-2010\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1604,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-other-european-volcano\/","url_meta":{"origin":11861,"position":5},"title":"The Other European Volcano","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 14, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Five years ago, the European Union\u2019s account of itself resonated with end-of history triumphalism. In organic fashion, democratic socialism would spread eastward and southward, recivilizing the old Warsaw Pact and the Balkans through cradle-to-grave entitlements, state unionism, radical environmentalism, and utopian pacifism. No\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;May 2010&quot;","block_context":{"text":"May 2010","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/archives\/2010\/may-2010\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11862,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11861\/revisions\/11862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}