John T Psaropoulos
@johntpsaropoulos.bsky.social
Independent journalist, Greece, Southeast Europe, East Mediterranean, Al Jazeera, Liberties, Hellenica
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With a year’s supply left in resevoirs, the government is focusing on diverting rivers, pumping groundwater and desalination, but pays little attention to the economies that can be cheaply achieved by managing household demand and the ravages of tourism. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
Athens is running out of water
The government’s plan is to supply more through river diversions, desalination and groundwater, with little focus on managing demand
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November 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
With a year’s supply left in resevoirs, the government is focusing on diverting rivers, pumping groundwater and desalination, but pays little attention to the economies that can be cheaply achieved by managing household demand and the ravages of tourism. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
Greece is becoming a gateway for US gas to the region, as Washington overtakes a Russian market. After a lot of fence-sitting, it is also plunging headlong into hydrocarbon exploration off Crete and in the Ionian Sea. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
Greece to create a corridor for US gas to Ukraine, taking over a Russian market
Agreements signed in Athens last week will send non-Russian gas to Ukraine and the region, and may produce Greek offshore gas in coming years
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November 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Greece is becoming a gateway for US gas to the region, as Washington overtakes a Russian market. After a lot of fence-sitting, it is also plunging headlong into hydrocarbon exploration off Crete and in the Ionian Sea. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
Prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis recently told parliament that the government would soon invite Greece’s neighbours to a regional forum addressing all the difficult issues of the east Mediterranean. Turkey has suggested it is open to talks. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
Are Greece and Turkey nearing direct talks?
Recent statements from both sides suggest preparations may be underway for talks on maritime boundaries
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November 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis recently told parliament that the government would soon invite Greece’s neighbours to a regional forum addressing all the difficult issues of the east Mediterranean. Turkey has suggested it is open to talks. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
Russian and Ukrainian forces are interlocked in desperate battles for control of Ukraine’s eastern towns of Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad, which Russia considers a gateway to the remaining unoccupied areas of the Donetsk region. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
Putin rattles his nuclear sabre as the battle for Pokrovsk heats up
Russia tested a series of “unique” nuclear-capable weapons and made grandiose claims it had encircled Pokrovsk
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October 31, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Russian and Ukrainian forces are interlocked in desperate battles for control of Ukraine’s eastern towns of Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad, which Russia considers a gateway to the remaining unoccupied areas of the Donetsk region. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
The US joined Europe to punish Russia for its war in Ukraine, in Trump’s latest Ukraine policy oscillation. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
Trump, Ukraine and Europe target Russian energy as diplomacy falters
Ukraine and the EU believe only missiles and sanctions will bring Putin to the negotiating table
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October 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The US joined Europe to punish Russia for its war in Ukraine, in Trump’s latest Ukraine policy oscillation. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
Russian economic indicators are nosediving after three and a half years of war. The Kremlin is now wholly dependent on oil and gas exports to provide cash for its war economy, say experts, so now is the time to asphyxiate it. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
Russia’s war economy is fraying. Can Ukraine’s allies end the war?
Now is the time for the US and Europe to choke off Putin’s cashflow with new sanctions against its oil and gas revenue, say experts
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October 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Russian economic indicators are nosediving after three and a half years of war. The Kremlin is now wholly dependent on oil and gas exports to provide cash for its war economy, say experts, so now is the time to asphyxiate it. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
Greece has passed what it considers to be the EU’s stiffest deportation policy in an effort to influence an upcoming EU Regulation on returns. It plans to test-drive it through a likely minefield of legal challenges from groups who say it defies human rights. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
Greece’s expansive deportation law tests the limits of rights in the EU
Rights groups say Greece is acting as Brussels’ bellwether for measures that aren’t always legal, moral and implementable
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October 19, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Greece has passed what it considers to be the EU’s stiffest deportation policy in an effort to influence an upcoming EU Regulation on returns. It plans to test-drive it through a likely minefield of legal challenges from groups who say it defies human rights. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
Russia appears to be running out of cash to prosecute its war. Decisive energy sanctions could tip the war in Ukraine’s favour: With thanks to CraigKennedy, Olena Yurchenko, Anna Wieslander and Maximilian Hess. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
Russia’s funding for Ukraine war set to ‘contract’ as new sanctions loom
Years after Putin ordered full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia's financial system is showing signs of vulnerability.
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October 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Russia appears to be running out of cash to prosecute its war. Decisive energy sanctions could tip the war in Ukraine’s favour: With thanks to CraigKennedy, Olena Yurchenko, Anna Wieslander and Maximilian Hess. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
With current trends, Greece faces an annual climate change bill in the billions by the end of the decade. That is one reason why it is decarbonising faster than most EU members. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
Greece’s mounting climate costs, and what we’re doing about it
Greece is an above average EU performer in the green transition; it is also an above average loser to climate change
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October 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
With current trends, Greece faces an annual climate change bill in the billions by the end of the decade. That is one reason why it is decarbonising faster than most EU members. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
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Greece is overhauling its armed forces structure and weapons arsenal to have a battle-worthy fighting force capable of projecting power in the East Mediterranean by 2030. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
Greece prepares its armed forces for war
New Democracy’s rearmament and restructuring reforms aim to put the military back in fighting shape by 2030
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October 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Greece is overhauling its armed forces structure and weapons arsenal to have a battle-worthy fighting force capable of projecting power in the East Mediterranean by 2030. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
Greece is overhauling its armed forces structure and weapons arsenal to have a battle-worthy fighting force capable of projecting power in the East Mediterranean by 2030. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
Greece prepares its armed forces for war
New Democracy’s rearmament and restructuring reforms aim to put the military back in fighting shape by 2030
open.substack.com
October 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Greece is overhauling its armed forces structure and weapons arsenal to have a battle-worthy fighting force capable of projecting power in the East Mediterranean by 2030. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
Trump recently praised Ukraine’s resilience and suggested it could win a complete military-economic victory with Western help, in an apparent reversal of his pro-Russia stance. But will he now approve a weapons ‘mega-deal’ with Ukraine? open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
As Ukraine pounds Russian refineries, Trump appears to turn on Russia
Trump praises Ukraine’s resilience and suggests it could win a complete military-economic victory with Western help
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October 4, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Trump recently praised Ukraine’s resilience and suggested it could win a complete military-economic victory with Western help, in an apparent reversal of his pro-Russia stance. But will he now approve a weapons ‘mega-deal’ with Ukraine? open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
Can the ruling conservatives in Greece regain public trust? The question is an important one for Greece’s ability to govern itself after the 2027 election. johntpsaropoulos.substack.com/p/greece-fac...
Greece faces the spectre of ungovernability
Can Mitsotakis regain public trust? The question is an important one for Greece’s ability to govern itself after the next election
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September 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Can the ruling conservatives in Greece regain public trust? The question is an important one for Greece’s ability to govern itself after the 2027 election. johntpsaropoulos.substack.com/p/greece-fac...
While Russia embarked on a campaign to intimidate Europe ahead of the UNGA, Ukraine quietly demolished its refineries. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
Russia tries to intimidate Europe with threats beyond Ukraine
Russian violations of Estonian and German airspace after its drone incursion in Poland have put NATO on edge
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September 27, 2025 at 11:05 AM
While Russia embarked on a campaign to intimidate Europe ahead of the UNGA, Ukraine quietly demolished its refineries. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
Greece will veto Turkish defence contractors’ participation in European SAFE programmes with European defence industries, unless Turkey drops a 30 year-old threat of war against Greece. The EU supports the Greek position.
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Greece is leveraging defence tech to bring Turkey to arbitration
Turkey is failing to intimidate Greece with coercion in the field, but Greece is succeeding in isolating Turkey
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September 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Greece will veto Turkish defence contractors’ participation in European SAFE programmes with European defence industries, unless Turkey drops a 30 year-old threat of war against Greece. The EU supports the Greek position.
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Ukraine has continued a highly successful, two-pronged strategy to choke off fuel supplies to the Russian economy and military, and to choke off Russian revenues from energy exports.
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Ukraine’s strikes choke off Russian oil exports and domestic fuel supplies
Evidence is mounting that Russian regions are short of fuel and state revenues from exports are suffering
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September 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Ukraine has continued a highly successful, two-pronged strategy to choke off fuel supplies to the Russian economy and military, and to choke off Russian revenues from energy exports.
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Greece is pursuing a transport, energy and data corridor from Alexandroupolis to Odesa as part of a vision to rebuild Ukraine and strengthen economic and military resilience in Southeast Europe. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
Greece envisions Vertical Corridor to rebuild Ukraine, remake region
Angelos Syrigos, advisor to premier Mitsotakis, talked to Hellenica about why Greek foreign policy needs to think regionally
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September 15, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Greece is pursuing a transport, energy and data corridor from Alexandroupolis to Odesa as part of a vision to rebuild Ukraine and strengthen economic and military resilience in Southeast Europe. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
Ukrainian defenders reclaimed 62 sq km of territory in Donetsk during August, foiling Russian attacks, but warns they are preparing new assaults. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
Ukraine’s advances refute Putin’s claims of success ‘in all directions’
Ukrainian defenders reclaimed 62 sq km of territory in Donetsk, foiling Russian attacks, but warns they are preparing new assaults
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September 12, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Ukrainian defenders reclaimed 62 sq km of territory in Donetsk during August, foiling Russian attacks, but warns they are preparing new assaults. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on September 6 announced a €1.6 billion package of tax cuts affecting more than four million taxpayers - essentially all working Greeks - hoping to stave off the populism plaguing Western democracies. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
Tax cuts nudge Greece towards prosperity, but will they save it?
Greece is changing – but is it changing fast enough to outrun its vices and maintain faith in centrist politics?
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September 9, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on September 6 announced a €1.6 billion package of tax cuts affecting more than four million taxpayers - essentially all working Greeks - hoping to stave off the populism plaguing Western democracies. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
Beijing postures as a neutral mediator, but it has materially and politically backed Russia’s war and profits from it.
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How China forgot promises and ‘debts’ to Ukraine, and backed Russia’s war
China postures as a neutral mediator, but it has materially and politically backed Russia’s war and profits from it.
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September 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Beijing postures as a neutral mediator, but it has materially and politically backed Russia’s war and profits from it.
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Greece’s small businesses continue to provide 90 percent of jobs as multinationals are turned away by lengthy court procedures, a bloated state bureaucracy, lack of meritocracy which exposes them to costly political favours, and an absence of the rule of law. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
Thoughts on the Greek economy ahead of the Thessaloniki International Fair
Economists are calling for a fundamental restructuring of the economy. It doesn’t appear likely
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September 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Greece’s small businesses continue to provide 90 percent of jobs as multinationals are turned away by lengthy court procedures, a bloated state bureaucracy, lack of meritocracy which exposes them to costly political favours, and an absence of the rule of law. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
Putin lieutenants inflated Russia’s war record ahead of his trip to China. Meanwhile Ukraine caused genuine injury to his economic backbone. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
Ukraine knocks out Russian refineries as Russia kills dozens of civilians in Kyiv
Ukraine has deprived Russia of about a fifth of its refining capacity in a long strategy of starving its war machine
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September 5, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Putin lieutenants inflated Russia’s war record ahead of his trip to China. Meanwhile Ukraine caused genuine injury to his economic backbone. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
Russia is not making much progress in Donetsk, where Ukraine has reprioritised defence in light of Putin’s demand that the unoccupied part of the territory be handed over. Ukraine is answering with a barrage on Russia’s refineries. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
Ukraine makes major gains in the air as Russia threatens Kupyansk
Ukraine has been successfully striking Russian refineries leading to price rises and rationing for gasoline
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August 31, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Russia is not making much progress in Donetsk, where Ukraine has reprioritised defence in light of Putin’s demand that the unoccupied part of the territory be handed over. Ukraine is answering with a barrage on Russia’s refineries. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
Divers exploring the wreck of the Britannic in Greek waters have discovered clues about why its sister ship, the Titanic, sank in the north Atlantic. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
At the bottom of the Aegean lie vital clues to the cause of Titanic’s doom
A sunken giant at the bottom of the Kea Strait has been helping to solve the mysteries of the Titanic’s loss, while creating a new underwater museum for divers
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August 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Divers exploring the wreck of the Britannic in Greek waters have discovered clues about why its sister ship, the Titanic, sank in the north Atlantic. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...