WASHINGTON: The Greek decision to hold a new US military base can attract Athens into a big war, maybe avoid, the former senior advisor of the Pentagon Douglas MacGregor told Sputnik.
The United States and Greece on Thursday signed an amendment to their reciprocal defense agreement which allowed US forces to practice and operate from additional locations in the country.
“Is Athena liking it or not, Athena can be pulled into the conflict which if it doesn’t prefer to avoid precisely because we are present in this country,” Macgregor said, retired said.
“The host government, in this case, Athens, might believe that it increases its security and it will benefit from US Cargesse when Germany, Italy and other allied countries have, but they lose the danger that continues to grow with our presence.” Expanding the presence of the US advanced military, MacGregor added, also guaranteed American involvement in any conflict that occurred.
The Biden government can believe in the involvement of the US military will make the conflict in the area smaller, but the opposite is the case, he said.
“Conflict has nothing to do with the United States and everything that must be done with a century of unfinished business,” MacGregor said.
In fact, a demonstration of the inability of the US military during the withdrawal from Afghanistan strengthened the growing perceptions of the weakness of the US military and the decline, he added.
In addition, the developing domestic US financial crisis can force Biden to memo plan for the base, MacGregor said.
“Athens might wake up to find the promised base not materialized or finally left in the middle of the night,” he said.
MacGregor also recorded the appointment on Thursday from Hawk Hawk Christopher Hill as a new US ambassador for Serbia.
“It also signifies new willingness to observe the Balkans and Russia.
Thus, encourages US military expansion to Greece.
Who is better than one of the architects of the Kosovo crisis and Serb Bombing?” He asked.
MacGregor also emphasized, when asked, that control of Eastern Mediterranean, against Russia, Micro Balkan management, and anticipating expulsion from Turkey has the potential in the US decision.
(Ani / Sputnik)