Harris Samaras

An Economist and Chairman of Pytheas (@PytheasThe). In the past with BofA Group, Thomson BankWatch & Moody's Investors Service.

[Harris Samaras @HarrisSamaras]

U.S. Secretary of State @SecRubio stated that Turkey cannot be readmitted into the F-35 program because the issue is regulated by legal provisions (NDAA¹ and CAATSA²).

Then how come Ambassador Tom Barrack, the U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, that works under the Secretary of State claims otherwise?

Puzzlement: Who is U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack working for if he is not for the Secretary of State?

Query: Could it be that either of the two is lying, Mr. Rubio or Mr. Barrack, or could it be that a ruse is by both in play?

Why the query? Because it must be the first time or one of the very rare times in U.S. diplomacy history when an Ambassador is cancelling the Secretary of State, and repetitively.

¹ National Defense Authorization Act
² Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act

| @repdinatitus @USAMBTurkiye #USA #Turkey #F35s

[Euripides L Evriviades 🇨🇾🇪🇺 @eevriviades]

In my article: “From Theory to Summit Diplomacy: The Thucydides Trap After Beijing” (published 31.05.2026 — Sunday Mail @cyprusmail),

I posit that the #ThucydidesTrap has moved from academic theory into the language of summit #diplomacy & superpower strategic discourse.

Will the #US & #China fall into the Trap, or will they find a way to manage rivalry without letting it descend into conflict?

Ideas matter.
Words matter.
Perceptions matter.
So does strategic prudence.

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#USChina #Diplomacy #Geopolitics #SummitDiplomacy #InternationalRelations #Thucydides #ELE #OpEd #Analysis #Article

[Harris Samaras @HarrisSamaras]

Αξιοσημείωτο το άρθρο του Χρήστου Κηπουρού. Άρθρο που θα παρεξηγηθεί από οπαδούς¹ δυστυχώς, μάλλον και ίσως όλων των κομμάτων.

Επικεντρώνομαι στο γραφόμενο επί του εικονιζόμενου άρθρου χάρτη: «Δημοψήφισμα Τώρα».

Μετά από το ΟΧΙ του 2004 κατά του Σχεδίου Ανάν οι από τότε κυβερνήσεις Ελλάδας και Κύπρου τρέμουν το δημοψήφισμα όπως ο διάβολος το λιβάνι.

¹ Δογματικούς, ανεγκέφαλους, τους υστερούντες κριτικής σκέψης.

| @GeopoliticoGR @cirithungol21 #ΑΟΖ #Ελλάδα #Κύπρος #Ελληνισμός
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[Pytheas @PytheasThe]

Skaramangas Shipyards signed a memorandum of cooperation with Hyundai Heavy Industries on exploring and developing cooperation in naval shipbuilding programs for the Hellenic Navy and the Hellenic Coast Guard.

| @ekathimerini @Hyundai_Global #Greece
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[Harris Samaras @HarrisSamaras]

@Terix19n @kajakallas @CMShehbaz @MIshaqDar50 She did, and not just once.

[Harris Samaras @HarrisSamaras]

By threatening talks, "Iran gets Trump to rescue Hezbollah"

Netanyahu's response: "Israel WILL attack terror targets in Beirut that target Israel. This stance of ours remains unchanged." [https://t.co/0noQ0E02tq]

|@WSJ @POTUS @netanyahu #USA #Iran #Hezbollah #Lebanon
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[Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו @netanyahu]

שוחחתי הערב עם הנשיא טראמפ ואמרתי לו שאם חיזבאללה לא יחדל לתקוף את ערינו ואזרחינו - ישראל תתקוף מטרות טרור בביירות.

עמדתנו זו עומדת בעינה.

במקביל, צה״ל ימשיך לפעול כמתוכנן בדרום לבנון.

[Harris Samaras @HarrisSamaras]

The EU, an enabler of dictatorships

Pakistan, @kajakallas, is an unelected and illegitimate military dictatorship, a major sponsor of terrorism, of Islamism, of jihadism, an arch human rights violator.

You Kaja Kallas, and the rest of the EU administration, are a disgrace to everything the Union claims to stand for.

| @EU_Commission @Europarl_EN @CMShehbaz @MIshaqDar50 @hrw @amnesty @TheWJP #Pakistan #EU

[Kaja Kallas @kajakallas]

Pakistan is a major regional power and an important partner for the EU.

Today in Islamabad, I met with Prime Minister @CMShehbaz and Deputy PM and Foreign Minister @MIshaqDar50 for talks on further strengthening EU–Pakistan ties. I also met Chief of Defence Forces Syed Asim Munir in the Army HQ in Rawalpindi.

I commended Pakistan for its key role in facilitating US-Iran talks.

The EU is Pakistan's largest export destination and Pakistan is the world's leading beneficiary of EU trade preferences, the GSP+.

[Harris Samaras @HarrisSamaras]

€200 εκατομμύρια επενδύουν οι ΗΠΑ για την αναβάθμιση της στρατιωτικής αεροπορικής βάσης Πάφου σε βάθος επταετίας. Η βάση θα βρίσκεται υπό τη Διοίκηση της Κυπριακής Δημοκρατίας και δη της Εθνικής Φρουράς.

Γιατί όμως σε βάθος επταετίας;

Ήδη έχουν γίνει κάποια προκαταρκτικά έργα επί του δίαυλου της Βάσης με ταυτόχρονη εγκαθίδρυση, από πλευράς Αμερικανών, σύγχρονων ραντάρ. Η Βάση θα μπορεί να δέχεται πάσης φύσεως σύγχρονα αεροσκάφη, από μεταγωγικά έως και μαχητικά, και δη εκείνα των αεροπλανοφόρων ή άλλα, που θα εδρεύουν μόνιμα. Η Βάση ήδη χρησιμοποιείται από τις ΗΠΑ και το ΝΑΤΟ.

Το άρθρο του Δρ. Γιάννου Χαραλαμπίδη.

| @Sigmalivecom @simerini_news @NationalGuardCY @PeteHegseth @PalmasVasilis @NATO #Κύπρος #ΗΠΑ #ΝΑΤΟ
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[Harris Samaras @HarrisSamaras]

«Στόχος της εισβολής ήταν η δημιουργία μιας ομοσπονδίας στην Κύπρο. Η επιχείρηση ήταν επιτυχής, όμως η δημιουργία της ομοσπονδίας στο τραπέζι ακόμα δεν έγινε κατορθωτή. Ο στόχος αυτός παραμένει απραγματοποίητος»
- Kenan Evren, πρώην Πρωθυπουργός της Τουρκίας

Προσθέτω στο άρθρο της Φανούλας Αργυρού,

Προ ημερών είχαμε βουλευτικές εκλογές στην Κύπρο. Με τη Διζωνική Δικοινοτική Ομοσπονδία (ΔΔΟ) δεν ασχολήθηκε ούτε τόλμησε να ασχοληθεί κανένας από τους υποψήφιους και αρχηγούς κομμάτων. Σιγή ιχθύος λοιπόν. Τρέμουν οι ψηφοθήρες και μόνο στο άκουσμα της. Γιατί τέτοιος φόβος; Τι άραγε να περιέχει;

Ακόμη κάποιος να μας υποδείξει έστω και ένα κράτος όπου εφαρμόστηκε τέτοιας μορφής έκτρωμα.

Η ΔΔΟ, κυρίες και κύριοι, σημαίνει οριστική και αμετάκλητη αποκοπή της Κύπρου από τον ελληνικό κορμό της και ορίζει την τουρκοποίηση της.

| @Sigmalivecom @simerini_news #Κύπρος #Τουρκία #Κυπριακό #ΔΔΟ #ΞυπνάτεΩρέΈλληνες
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[Ictinus ®️ @ictinus_x]

🇪🇺 Turkey’s illegal maritime claims are not merely a dispute over boundaries. They represent a broader challenge to EU sovereignty, international law, regional stability, and the credibility of Europe’s collective security framework.

The Eastern Mediterranean may ultimately test the credibility of the European Union itself.
🧵

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

In 2016, the Netherlands Meteorological Institute adjusted temperatures at De Bilt, the country's main climate station. Daily maximums from 1901 to 1950 were lowered by up to 1.9C, which removed 16 of 23 heatwaves from the record.

The altered data were then used to claim modern heatwaves were unprecedented.

Four researchers challenged the changes, but the institute dismissed the criticism, so the analysis went to peer review. In 2021, it was published, conclusively demonstrating the method systematically erased historical heat extremes.

Today, the Meteorological Institute has quietly changed its approach, and as a result, seven erased heatwaves have been restored, including the extreme summer of 1947.

Here again, we have a government agency caught rewriting climate history. The Netherlands Meteorological Institute erased heatwaves of the past, ignored critics, and reinstated the truth only when the evidence became impossible to ignore.

Policies were built on that manipulated record.
Dutch farmers lost livelihoods.
Industry and the wider economy paid the price.

But accountability is coming.

[𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐤𝐚 ™️_ @prokaliptika1]

Το H-10 Poseidon UAV εντάχθηκε στο Πυροβολικό της Εθνικής Φρουράς.

Κατασκευάζεται στην Κύπρο από τη Swarmly Aero και παραχωρήθηκε ως δωρεά για αποστολές επιτήρησης και στοχοποίησης σε πραγματικό χρόνο.

Κυπριακή τεχνολογία που έχει ήδη αξιοποιηθεί και στο ουκρανικό μέτωπο.

[Harris Samaras @HarrisSamaras]

@EdyCohen Erdogan, @EdyCohen, is not his only accomplice in crime.

[Harris Samaras @HarrisSamaras]

I know @SecRubio it must have hurt. It must have hurt to be forced to retain the one that you have already sacked.

Imagine, however, how much this doing and undoing must have hurt the Kurds. The Christian ethnic groups of Syria as well.

Their celebrations for the termination of the role of Ambassador Tom Barrack have lasted a few hours only. I gather, yours as well Mr. Secretary.

I, staunch supporter of the ideals outlined in the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, thought the instance I have read your first post Sir, that the termination of Mr. Barrack as the U.S. Special Envoy to Syria may have signalled a change of U.S. policy for the region. I was apparently wrong. Ambassador Barrack "remains a central interlocutor on Syria, and key trusted hand on Iraq¹."

Foolish of me. Even if he had been sacked from that position, he still is the U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, advocating for another totalitarian regime.

I am of the opinion Mr. Secretary that all U.S. administrations should visit Mount Rushmore often. Gazing at the four U.S. presidents carved there they should contemplate what it really is that made America great.

"Apologies" for my sarcasm, but it is positive sarcasm.

¹ Truly hope that I am wrong, but I fear for the Kurds of Iraq (since Ambassador Barrack is a trusted hand on Iraq).

| @USAMBTurkiye #USA #Syria #Turkey #Iraq

[Harris Samaras @HarrisSamaras]

I know @SecRubio it must have hurt. It must have hurt to be forced to retain the one that you have already sacked.

Imagine, however, how much this doing and undoing must have hurt the Kurds. The Christian ethnic groups of Syria as well.

Their celebrations for the termination of the role of Ambassador Tom Barrack have lasted a few hours only. I gather, yours as well Mr. Secretary.

I, staunch supporter of the ideals outlined in the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, thought the instance I have read your first post Sir, that the termination of Mr. Barrack as the U.S. Special Envoy to Syria may have signalled a change of U.S. policy for the region. I was apparently wrong. Ambassador Barrack "remains a central interlocutor on Syria, and key trusted hand on Iraq¹."

Foolish of me. Even if he had been sacked from that position, he still is the U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, advocating for another totalitarian regime.

I am of the opinion Mr. Secretary that all U.S. administrations should visit Mount Rushmore often. Gazing at the four U.S. presidents carved there they should contemplate what it really is that made America great.

"Apologies" for my sarcasm, but it is positive sarcasm.

¹ Truly hope that I am wrong, but I fear for the Kurds of Iraq (since Ambassador Barrack is a trusted hand on Iraq).

| @USAMBTurkiye #USA #Syria #Turkey #Iraq
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[Harris Samaras @HarrisSamaras]

Praising the unelected and illegitimate representative of a military dictatorship @SecRubio, in Washington from all places, of Pakistan, a country that promotes and sponsors Islamism, may seem to some an aspect of diplomacy and realpolitik. Wise diplomacy, history has proven over and over, it is not!

Short-term exchanges of benefits rather than long-term, value-based alliances have always turned out to be disastrous. You, however Sir, keep at it. With Pakistan, with Turkey, with Qatar.

| @MIshaqDar50 #Pakistan #USA

[Harris Samaras @HarrisSamaras]

Praising the unelected and illegitimate representative of a military dictatorship @SecRubio, in Washington from all places, of Pakistan, a country that promotes and sponsors Islamism, may seem to some an aspect of diplomacy and realpolitik. Wise diplomacy, history has proven over and over, it is not!

Short-term exchanges of benefits rather than long-term, value-based alliances have always turned out to be disastrous. You, however Sir, keep at it. With Pakistan, with Turkey, with Qatar.

| @MIshaqDar50 #Pakistan #USA

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

Met with Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister @MIshaqDar50 and thanked him for the role Pakistan continues to play in advancing peace in the Middle East. We agreed upon the importance of working together to further strengthen a meaningful partnership for better security and more prosperity for our two nations.

[Harris Samaras @HarrisSamaras]

"Project Trident" was signed at the U.S. ambassadorial residence in Athens between Greek shipyard operator ONEX and South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean.

The €1.35 billion deal is expected to generate up to 10,000 jobs and contribute 0.8% annually to Greece's GDP over the next five to seven years.

Hanwha Ocean, part of Hanwha Group, is a leading manufacturer of advanced conventional submarines, most notably the formidable KSS-III (Dosan Ahn Chang-ho-class); image attached.

| @USEmbassyAthens @kimguilfoyle @MOFAkr_eng @GreeceinSeoul @Hanwha_Ocean @ONEXShipyards

[Harris Samaras @HarrisSamaras]

Le Pen gives Israelis, Greeks and Cypriots every word they wait to hear: Turkey outside Europe, Cyprus under occupation, Christianity, resistance to political Islam, free Gaza from Hamas' jihadist rule.

She is anti-Turkish anti-Islamist in language and anti-system in consequence. She is not a weapon against Erdogan.

She is an opening for him: Erdogan needs European paralysis, NATO ambiguity, EU renationalization and a performative France unable to marshal power with Athens and Nicosia.

The undersigned of this post, wrote about it, spoke about it, argued about it, argued for similar to Shay Gal's positions in this article years ago.

The misled, however, duped and conned by Le Pen's rhetoric, envisaged role and stratagem - she is not the only one, nor is Viktor Orban or Italy's Meloni - seem deaf and hard of hearing. In the meantime, Erdogan and his likes rub their hands with glee.

| @tovimacom @ShayGal84 @MLP_officiel @RTErdogan @EmmanuelMacron @netanyahu @kmitsotakis @Christodulides @vonderleyen @NATO #Israel #Greece #Cyprus #Turkey #Russia
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