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Certain quarters launched a bevy of spiteful comments when the US administration chose a successful Greek-American businessman, George J. Tsunis, to succeed Geoffrey Pyatt as the new US ambassador to Greece, rather than a career diplomat, as per the usual practice.

The partial and - in any case - temporary re-evaluation of the US strategy towards Turkey has worried Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is going through a difficult pre-election period and sees that the attempted haggling "give me the F-16s and then I will give you give my consent to Sweden joining NATO", he did not catch on.

The Fleet is in constant readiness to respond to its mission, to defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity.