Nikos Konstandaras

The Greek-Ukraine security cooperation agreement that Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed yesterday is part of a matrix of bilateral agreements aimed at supporting Ukraine while NATO puts off the country's accession to the alliance. Greece is the 21st European Union member to sign such an agreement with Ukraine, in the framework of EU and NATO decisions.

Whatever the result of the US elections in just over two weeks, it is already clear that the European Union will have to move swiftly to reinforce its defense and trade, and to deal with the climate crisis. Whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris is elected president, the EU will face serious problems in these crucial sectors, with only the degree of difficulty differing on the basis of who is elected president and who controls the two houses of Congress. If Trump wins, he will stop supporting Ukraine and will weaken defense ties with European countries. If he persists in seeing the EU as a competitor, the United States will impose tariffs on European products, disrupting the largest trade relationship in the world (worth some 1.3 trillion dollars annually, with the balance favoring the EU by 131 billion in 2022). On the climate, the former president says that he will pull the US out of the Paris Agreement once again and will encourage drilling for fossil fuels.

The sermons of our illustrious superpatriot caste are full of self-evident desires. Who would not want their country to be so powerful – something like Alexander’s empire when it was united, or Byzantium at its peak – that enemies would tremble, and the rest would beg for its benevolence?

The US elections are highlighting the catastrophic consequences of the long-term devaluation of the country's “traditional” news media. Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are completely different people, with very different policies, and America will be very different after this election, depending on which of the two wins. If the voters (or, rather, the electors) pick Joe Biden's deputy president, the country will continue very much as today; with its problems and inadequate solutions, it will still be the America we know.

It takes a lot of courage and a great sense of responsibility to go up against your country’s political system and the vast majority of citizens to criticize your country in time of war.

Soon we will all be trying to interpret the result of the US elections. How did Donald Trump or Kamala Harris win with relative ease when, right to the end, polls showed the race was too close to predict?

As humanity waits with bated breath for the results of Tuesday’s elections, it is worth noting that this year 10.5 billion dollars was spent on election campaigns in the United States.

Donald Trump is just where he wished to be. Where the majority of voters want him to be. “We've achieved the most incredible political thing. Look what happened. Is this crazy?” he declared as it became clear that he would return to the highest office in the United States four years after his first term ended. He was right.

This is an earth changing event. The country which for over a century played a decisive role in how the world developed elected Donald Trump president for the second time, a presidency that will not be subject to the checks that existed when Trump was president from 2016-2020 and which applied to all his predecessors since the founding of the United States. And this has happened even though voters know full well who Trump is and what he represents.

Three elections will have a decisive influence on the future and legacy of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as they offer him the opportunity to extend his control over Turkey for several more years, without the (admittedly diminishing) constraints that he faces.