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Ioannis Kapodistrias, President of Greece, 1828-1831. By Dionysios Tsokos – National historical Museum, Athens, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10436040 https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Ioannis Kapodistrias
In 1828, the powers of Europe, France, England, and Russia, appointed Ioannis Kapodistrias President of Greece.
Kapodistrias was an excellent diplomat, politician and patriot. He laid the foundations of the Greek state and dreamed of political independence for the Holy Greece he planned. His local and foreign enemies assassinated him on September 27, 1831.
Xenocracy
After the assassination of Kapodistrias, the Europeans appointed Otto of Bavaria as king of Greece. The monarchy opened the way for foreign influence in the country and almost eliminated its democratic principles.
20th The 1912th century was mainly a time of tragedy and danger. During the Balkan Wars, 1913-1914, Greece doubled its size with the conquest of Macedonia from Turkish occupation. But after the First World War, 1918-1919, the invasion of Greek troops in Asia Minor, 1923-1922, failed miserably. The government in Athens had incompetent and cowardly leaders. And in addition, Italy, France, and the Soviet Union (Russia) helped arm the Turkish state, which had a genocidal policy, particularly against Armenians and Greeks. England, which had encouraged the Greek campaign in Turkey, changed its policy and became neutral. In XNUMX, the Turks burned Smyrna, a Greek megalopolis for centuries.
German occupation
Greece's second tragedy in the twentieth century occurred during the 1940s. The German conquest of Greece, April 1941 – October 1944, was a holocaust of barbarism.
German massacres in Kontomari, Crete, 2 June 1941. Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-166-0527-06A / Weixler, Franz Peter / CC-BY-SA 3.0. Wikipedia Commons – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki
The policy of the German occupiers was death for Greece through forced loans, plague and terrible famine, the burning of hundreds of villages, the execution of thousands of fighters and farm animals, the impoverishment of agriculture, the destruction of infrastructure and the robbery of the country's archaeological treasures.
Debt, money, your life
Something similar to the German occupation, happened from 2009 almost until 2020. The European Union and the International Monetary Fund of America impoverished Greece with brutal starvation austerity and loss of national sovereignty to pay off the country's debt. With this hostile and predatory policy, the only one who benefited was Turkey, which does not hide its hostility towards Greece.
Greek History Lessons: Freedom or Xenophobia?
The long Greek history gives clarity and inspires freedom and culture as the best goods. Culture needs strong protection from its enemies, ethnonihilators / Ephialtes, Greeks bribed by Turkey, and others who steal the virtues and science and archaeological treasures of the ancient Greeks. Culture, of course, must be based on the truths of history and science and the rules of law. This presupposes protection of freedom of speech and human health and the health of nature with strong laws against corruption and a ban on financing politicians who claim positions in government. The entire civilized world, and especially Greece, must study and respect ancient Greek culture and science and language.
The Greek government must be, first and foremost, patriotic because the history after the assassination of President Ioannis Kapodistrias in 1831 is a history of xenophobia and ethnocentrism. These dangerous developments culminate with the Turks proclaiming for years like 2024 and 2025 that the Greek Aegean Sea is their blue homeland. They have both the audacity and the hubris to teach such lies in Turkish schools. And the government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, instead of reacting with a diplomatic strategy and military defensive actions of force to protect the Aegean, continues to talk to the Turkish leadership as if nothing were happening. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Greece does not dare to inform the members of NATO, the governments of the states of the United Europe and the members of the United Nations Security Council about the illegal actions and rhetoric of NATO Turkey. It falsely misinforms the Greek people that everything is honey and milk with the neighboring country that dreams of conquering the Aegean. Such servility and voluntary servitude is humiliation. Greece is losing the respect of foreign states and encouraging the wild and expansionist policy of Turkey.
Ο Konstantinos Grivas, professor of strategic studies at the Military Academy of the Hellenic Navy and the University of Athens, and Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos, former Ambassador of Greece to Turkey, warn that Mitsotakis' appeasement policy towards hostile Turkey will end in war or a second Turkish occupation. They are already certain that during the crisis of 23-25 July 2024, when 5 Turkish warships blocked the cable connection between Crete and Cyprus, near the islands of Kasos and Karpathos, Mitsotakis very likely recognized Turkish sovereignty in Greek waters of the Aegean. The Savvas Kalenteridis, a publisher and journalist with many years of military service, and an expert on Turkish strategy and politics, is so disappointed that he says that “Mitsotakis’ Greek state does not function like a normal state. It is an accident of history.”"Turkey," says Calenderides, “divides the Aegean in half with a Search and Rescue exercise [and in Cyprus]… Turkey deploys howitzers… in the occupied North.” Turkey shows its hostile and expansionist plans for Greece with a special army it has for the Aegean. And Kalenderides ironically asks Mitsotakis: “All is well with the calm waters with Erdogan?”
Indeed, Mitsotakis is behaving with servility and defeatism towards Turkish President Erdogan, just as the Phanariotes have been behaving for centuries towards the Sultan. This bowing down to the genocidal state of Turkey and the government’s hostility towards the territorial integrity of Greece indicate seismic changes in the country’s politics.
I noticed the same thing in Thrace in 2013. The Turkish consul did whatever he wanted. I spoke to Greek Muslims in the villages of Rhodope. They are Greek citizens who found it incomprehensible that the Greek government considered them Turks and forced their children to learn Turkish. A third of the mountain villages of Rhodope see Greece as their homeland. But the Greek government is invisible in Thrace. According to the Greek scholar Yannis Kourgiannidis, the Greek State does not protect citizens who have changed religion and language. The government lacks national planning and basic historical knowledge. “All it does,” Kourgiannidis tells us, “is to drag itself behind Turkey’s plans and play its game.”
Is it because of NATO that Greek governments have agreed to Turkey's expansion into Greece? Thrace and the Aegean?
The contempt for Greek national sovereignty by the “Greek government” is the result of a Nightmare betrayal and is unacceptable.
The Greek citizens of 2025 must understand that the ancient virtues of good and evil, all good in moderation, are known to him and the virtues of democracy are the air of the free Greek. And because of the hostile Turkey in its neighborhood, Greece with patriotic leaders must once again become strong and self-sufficient in food and the military defense industry. Only such a policy, to be ready for war in order to avoid it, will send the right messages to enemies and friends.
The vision of Alexander the Great and President Ioannis Kapodistrias for a Greece politically independent, neutral in international relations, and Sacred, a Greece that is a school of Europe and Western civilization, must be realized. Greek civilization is a treasure and freedom and science not only for Greece, but for all humanity. This is also the main lesson of Greek history.
Photos
Ioannis Kapodistrias, By Dionysios Tsokos – National historical Museum, Athens, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10436040 https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/
German massacres in Kontomari, Crete, 2 June 1941. Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-166-0527-06A / Weixler, Franz Peter / CC-BY-SA 3.0. Wikipedia Commons – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki
main photo by NoName_13, https://pixabay.com
