Woe to you, rulers of the world, who have suddenly become compassionate, forgetting your crimes.

The fact that all his movements NATO are driven by USA and aim to cut off Europe from Russia, We have known this for 24 years, since 1998 specifically (the beginning of the North Atlantic Alliance's overextension) until today, when its influence in Europe has multiplied.

This fact alone is strong evidence that partly explains why Russia, cornered geopolitically, chose (wrongly) as a way out—faced with the deadly stranglehold of its neighbors from the West—to invade Ukraine, country US mouthpiece in American-dominated Europe, which is preparing to become a member of the United (ed. note: Zelensky has already signed Ukraine's application for EU membership).

Thus, everything is going well according to NATO's plans. Because the more Ukraine is threatened by Russia, the more reason there is for its existence as an organization. An organization representing the Western Alliance, which is intensifying its efforts over time to weaken Russia, resulting in its disintegration and conquest.

”Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites” of the suffocating and blood-laden alliance of the innocent. ”Woe to you” who want to divide Europe with a new Iron Curtain, turning Russia into a scapegoat..”Oi humin” world rulers who suddenly became compassionate towards the Ukrainians, forgetting your crimes.

Those who are applauded today for their ”humanitarianism” are—for the most part—those who have exercised and continue to exercise power based on the policy of double standards in America and Europe.

They have pursued and continue to pursue a policy that grants absolution to the Attila of ’74. and permanently removes from the criminal records of international organizations those who have died, gone missing, or been abused at the hands of Turkish Cypriots.

And this is happening to such an extent of international amnesia and contempt that today we have the ”Neo-Ottoman” President. Erdogan as a peacemaker and interlocutor of the Great Powers. The Great Powers who apparently forgot the Turkish invasions within 48 years (Cyprus, Syria, Iraq...) and even more so their own bombing ”achievements” on European soil against Yugoslavia.

Come on! Ukraine is one thing, you might say, but Cyprus and Yugoslavia are quite another. Based on this biased perspective and policy, Western countries — with Turkey as a wild card — are showing a united front against the Kremlin, confirming the obese hypocrisy of the ”luxury states,” most of which have the ”stamp” of Europe...

And if one weighs the longstanding crimes committed by NATO's ”big players” and their Turkish ”proteges” (who remain unpunished no matter how many crimes they commit), then he will realize that Putin's crimes (because invasion and acts of war against a third country are crimes) pale in comparison to their own.

Therefore, the punitive sanctions against Russia would have been acceptable to everyone if they had been preceded by a similar punitive measure in 1974, with long-term economic sanctions against Turkey.

This did not happen, and since then the West has continued—for reasons of self-interest—to turn a blind eye to its illegal actions, allowing it to provoke, act arbitrarily, and threaten to violate the territorial integrity of Greece and Cyprus.

And he threatens because he knows full well that, whatever he does, no one will touch him because of his financial interests (ed. note). Western countries are financing the Turkish regime and arming it so that it can continue its expansionist plans at the expense of Greece, Cyprus, and the peoples of Mesopotamia.).

To continue unabated — with the tolerance of the EU and the US — its violations, provocations, and overflights in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean, emboldened by its impunity after the Turkish invasion of Syria (2019), which was accompanied by relentless bombing of Kurdish towns and villages with countless civilian casualties (see war crimes against Kurds in Rojava, Syria).

Thus, through policies of displacement and genocide, Afrin in Syria—where 90% of the inhabitants were Kurds—now has less than 15% in the general population due to its colonization by Turkmen and Arabs, a policy that Tayyip Erdogan wants to implement in occupied Cyprus (Varosia/Famagusta, etc.).

Unfortunately, Europeans and Americans do not see all this, no matter how heavy it is with tears, pain, and blood. Nor do international organizations see them (just as they did not see the heinous crimes committed by the Canadians, Italians, and Belgians in Somalia in 1991-92, during the civil war there).

With this information, mixed with hypocrisy and double standards policy that benefits Turkey, We must stop deluding ourselves, Greeks and Greek Cypriots, hoping for sanctions against it.

We must decide that, unless we are reborn with the virtues of our ancestors, faith, courage, and patriotism, we will follow the fate of peoples who are shrinking over time until they disappear, until they die.

And one last reminder to conclude. The biggest losers today are primarily the Ukrainians, who face the specter of death and survival under Russian attack. But the impact of economic measures and sanctions against Russia will affect everyone to a greater or lesser extent.

They will burden all of humanity, at the same time that the habitual invader from the East is being upgraded (due to the importance of the Straits), its criminal record is being wiped clean by international organizations and — thanks to Ukraine — Turkey's provocative behavior and spirit of militarism are being given free rein...

Written by Krinio Kalogeridou (Voula Iliadou, author)