True, but the Greeks are growing now, and have changed the whole system that brought them there, a gigantic effort. So, he doesn’t have anything to stand on, plus for the reasons I mentioned, a healthy, prosperous Greece is of the outmost importance and interest to the US. There aren’t any other true friends of America in those lands. Only Greece and Israel. As for Jordan, only while the King is there.
Puerto Ricans were not loved in NY, when I lived there, and he obviously still has that chip on his shoulder. He just doesn’t like them.