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HoOmAn you asked the following

Only few countries would have a real interest in the situation or are forced to be involved

Britain for being the one who sold the islands and because of the British citizens still there.

I can´t see for the life of it what kind of interest some powers in the Med have in this conflict for example.

Well if you expect England to be concerned about a couple of odd thousand Falkland Islanders you can’t expect Greece to turn a blind eye to 50 odd thousand expatriates do you?

If heavy casualties were inflicted on the Argentinean Greek community, the ruling Greek government would find a lynch mob waiting at their front door.

In the real world of the 1920’s Argentina was one of the three big centres of the Greek Diaspora, south Africa was number six or seven if I remember correctly! The only fiction about the Greek Argentinean communities in Wesworld is their numbers, which are less numerus. My alternate Greece was industrialised decades earlier and the job and economical opportunities that came with it would have kept a large number of Greeks from emigrating. Thus the expatriate Greek communities worldwide would not have grown as large as they historically did.

Also by sending a heavy cruiser to join the two battle cruisers stationed in Atlantis and organising the evacuation of the Greek expatriates was staying true to character.
During the Bolshevik revolution in the real world, Greece had sent a sizeable chunk of its fleet into the black sea on the pretext of protecting the Greek Black sea communities living in the Caucuses and the Ukraine. They had also sent up to 150,000 troops. Unofficially they were also there to help the White Russians.

During the more recent past early to mid 90’s,to be more precise, Greece had sent a rescue mission once again into the black sea, this time to Georgia during that nations civile war. The rescue fleet consisted of a few Frigates and Destroyers, some LST and a small contingent of ground troops. I don’t remember the exact numbers of the forces involved but I do remember that few thousand Greeks were eventually evacuated. One final example would be the rescue mission sent to Albania during that countries economic collapse. While there they not only evacuated Greeks trapped in the capital but also embassy staff and civilians belonging to China Egypt Syria and some others that I no longer remember. Unfortunately as usual the American and British forces got all the news coverage in the western media, admittedly thou the Greeks were happy to keep a low profile.

The point of the above quick history lesson is that Greeks generally don’t care what the rest of the world gets up to as long as its leaves them and their relatives alone. Some trivia, every second Greek has a relative living in Australia, get the picture! Naturaly in Wesworld for the above mentioned reasons only every 5th Greek has a relative living in Australia,.

And HoOmAn don’t forget that there is a small but significant Greek community living in South Africa, don’t be surprised if the HSIS has operatives amongst them or any other expatriate community for that matter.:-)


Pengolodh you asked the following

Iberia, incidentally, could probably be said to have a justifiable vested interest in the ongoing events in the South Atlantic; Argentina may even have counted on Iberia being leaning more towards their cause; equally likely it would count on nations such as Greece, or India to support its cause, and to see it as justifiable.

Unlike other Nations Greece has taken a neutral stance with a slight Argentinean bias. Significantly it has not openly criticised Argentina on their actions nor frozen assets or impounded Argentinean shipping. Although it has helped some Nordmarkians that managed to get to the Greek embassy vacate the country for humanitarian reasons it has not offered any assistants or moral support in Nordmarks war against Argentina.

On the matter of trade between Greece and the warring nations its business as usual

Greek intentions in this war are limited to getting its civil shipping and expatriate community out of the war zone.

I don’t know, maybe I’m being too esoteric or subtle in my writing?

So I will repeat a very important part of my article and hope you read between the lines. I would also like to remind you that frets in diplomacy rarely work if they are not accompanied with a carrot. The question you should now be asking is what’s the carrot.

So far the Argentinean government has not hindered our attempts to evacuate our nationals and this seems to prove that an agreement has been reached with them. It has been alleged but not yet officially confirmed that the Argentinean ambassador and the military attaché the Athens embassy had a private meeting with our head of the joint chief of staff Air marshal Phillip Pyrrhus. Its been said that during this meeting our Air marshal explained that there will be dire consequences if Argentina tries to interfere with the evacuation.

At this point of time the last thing that Argentina needs is to also bring down on its head the displeasure of a second European nation. So far their has been little communication with Nordmark due to the extraordinary security clampdown that has been in place since the commencement of hostilities but it’s generally believed that Nordmark being a nation that respects international law will not interfere with what is purely a pre-emptive humanitarian effort.