#EasternMed: Exhaustion of the regional players, inattention of the needful EU, opportunity for Turkiye. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
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#EasternMed: Exhaustion of the regional players, inattention of the needful EU, opportunity for Turkiye. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/world/europe/turkey-eu-membership.html
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| 0:30.5 | This is CBS Island World. I'm John Bacheler with Gregory Coppley, my friend and colleague at Adder and Publishive Defense and Foreign Affairs. |
| 0:42.5 | We move from the conflict in Europe in Ukraine to the Eastern Mediterranean, |
| 0:48.5 | encompassing Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Cyprus, and Greece. |
| 0:53.5 | The Eastern Med is as Gregory reports strategic, strategic matrix. |
| 0:59.5 | The question is, who's paying attention? |
| 1:02.5 | The US apparently has left the Middle East. Can't tell on any given day, |
| 1:06.5 | but it sure looks that way when you consider Afghanistan, Iraq, and the questions about the Gulf. |
| 1:13.5 | Where is the US power once upon a time? |
| 1:16.5 | The new player could be Europe, given how critical the energy resources are out of the Middle East to Europe. |
| 1:24.5 | But Gregory, thank you very much for this. |
| 1:27.5 | These European powers have turned away from fossil fuel, at least to hear them speak. |
| 1:34.5 | Do they appreciate the Eastern Mediterranean as a source of energy they must have over the balance of this century? |
| 1:42.5 | Or are they at this point so focused on Ukraine? They don't see what's coming next. |
| 1:50.5 | Well, you do have countries such as Italy, governments there who really appreciate the importance of fossil fuels |
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