I HAD great difficulty sleeping on Friday night, after hearing that our dear Kyproulla, the pylon of stability and security of the East Med, is “under existential threat.”
And this was not said by our Prez, who has a real talent for meaningless statements, but by our authoritative Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos, at a meeting of the House foreign affairs committee on Friday.
Speaking to deputies, Kombos said “we are under existential threat, there is the occupation force, there is the daily disputing of the standing of the Cyprus Republic” and opposite us “we have an opponent, that has no relation with Turkey of previous years.”
Have the Turks become even more bloodthirsty, barbaric, expansionist and intransigent than they were, to now pose an existential threat to us that they never posed in the last 50 years? None of our politicians – certainly no other foreign minister – ever said such a thing in the last 50 years, so why is Kombos irresponsibly spreading alarm, which could cause more young Cypriots to leave the country?
The government appears to be sending mixed signals.
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