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Surveillance Report - Quirks of the Eastern Mediterranean

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 Introduction The Eastern Mediterranean is a part of the world that seemed to have lost its relevancy, as the conflicts of nations and powers and history moved further west and inland, with the main players being England, France, Prussia, and even Russia. Long forgotten was the land that once played home to the stronger half of the Roman Empire, long ridiculed was the "Sick Man of Europe", the world forgetting that the invincible Sultans once shook two continents to their very core.  The matter did not ease with the rise of the new powerblocs in the 20th Century. The United States and the Soviet Union both had bigger concerns and interests than what the Greeks and the Turkish and the Egyptians could desire, their battlefields extending throughout South Africa, through Asia, and and even through South America. Further exarcebated was the situation with the United States emerging as the clear victor, and the world's eyes focusing only on that hyperpower that now stood above