The Greek writer Giorgos Kopelas sent me (Jan. 25, 2026) a short letter about Greece, Europe and the European Union.
Greece in danger
According to the Girl:
“Without National Independence and Popular Sovereignty (which are missing today), Greece as a state (organized power) has no future and the Greek people will be enslaved for decades to the states that dominate the Europe of monopolies, international cartels, and supranational banks…
in Europe there is neither the same language, nor the same religion, nor the same faith… This resulted in a constant competition between the nations of Europe that usually ended in bloody conflicts… What calls itself the “European Union” is in reality a German Europe with its headquarters in Brussels instead of Berlin.”
I thanked the Girl for his opinions.
Of course, the sovereignty of Greece, next to NATO's pampered but hostile Turkey, is problematic and existential. The European states, Britain and America continue, for their own strategic reasons, to support the non-European country, Turkey. This absurd support of a fanatical Islamic state by mainly Christian forces increases the political issues in today's Europe.
But there are solutions
Today's Europe is a product of wars, particularly the terrible Second World War, 1939-1945, and the Cold War, 1946-1989. Genocidal Germany brought us the destruction of the 1st and 2nd World Wars.th World War. And the competition between America and the Soviet Union was responsible for the Cold War. In the poisoned atmosphere of the post-war period, there was the rise of the “United Europe” which was neither democratic nor essentially uniting the European states. America’s NATO militarized Europe again and made it an almost enslaved colony for its imaginary anti-communist ideas and fears. With this ethos, America gave Germany permission to become a wartime Germany again. This atrocity would have terrified the other states of Europe, but it particularly frightened Greece to such a depth that it is likely to officially at least forget the enormous debt owed to it by Germany, which almost wiped it out in four years of occupation, 1941-1944. The German enslavement of Greece was imposed with murders, barbarities, looting of archaeological treasures and numerous other disasters during the occupation's famine and death.
Germany has not only not paid off its debts, but is supporting institutions in Greece to even write off its debt. memory of debt.
“These institutions are lavishly funded by the German Foreign Office [Ministry of Foreign Affairs]. Under seemingly innocuous titles and under the pretext of promoting “friendship”, “mutual understanding” and “virtuous relationships between people", persistently and systematically cultivate in reality the falsification of the truth and the historical forgetting about Nazi crimes, offering beads and mirrors through cultural exchanges, recreational trips and showcase projects, in order to avoid liability for damages.”
America, thinking as an empire with a plutocratic hatred of communism, saw only the Soviet Union as a strategic enemy — and nothing else. It had forgotten that the Soviet Union had won World War 20 with some 27 million dead. It did not bother America that it forced hungry and bankrupt Greece, a country with the most excellent and remarkable culture of virtue and science in the world that created Western civilization, to become an ally of two of its deadliest enemies, Germany and Turkey. Germany became Germany again to fight the Russians, the same with the fanatical Islamic Mongol Turkey.
England began its caress of Turkey in the 19th century.being century and America, which replaced Britain in the 20being century after the 2ndbeing World War, considers the predatory and genocidal Turkey a NATO ally for any war against Russia. This was the reason why, in 1955, both America and Britain ignored the barbaric attack of the Turkish-led mob against the Greek inhabitants of Constantinople. Also, in 1974, America gave permission to Turkey to attack and occupy almost half of Greek Cyprus.
The EU pretends not to see the Turkish conquest of half of Cyprus, meaning that for 50 years it has tolerated foreign sovereignty over the territory of a European state. The Republic of Cyprus is a member of the EU.
Now in 2026 when the President Trump has put Europe in its rightful place and threatens to seize Greenland from NATO member Denmark, the EU has begun to rethink its relations with the US. Even the Canada He talks about an explosion in global legitimacy.
Independent and democratic European Union
If the EU truly wants to recreate Europe for the good of European citizens and a better future for planet Earth, I would propose the following political actions:
- Adoption of the Greek language as an official language of the United Europe.
- To finance a global Platonic and Aristotelian Academy for the study of ancient Greek civilization for education and understanding and solution of existential anthropogenic problems.
(3) Germany must absolutely compensate Greece for the war crimes that Germans committed in occupied Greece from 1941 to 1944?
(4) banning German troops in Germany or elsewhere, that is, Germany becoming another Switzerland, neutral, not having the right to an army, air force, or navy?
(5) creation of a European defense force without cooperation with hostile Turkey?
(6) an end to NATO and an end to the Ukrainian war and European military support for the war and
(7) expulsion of Turks and Turkish troops from Cyprus (European territory). The EU should work with Greece to stop the hundreds of violations by Turkish military and fishing vessels in the Aegean. The more you reduce the EU's power, the more you increase the Turkish threat to the Aegean and Greece.
Ultimately, the EU should work with Greece and help it become a European capital of culture. That was the dream of Alexander the Great and Ioannis Kapodistrias, first president of independent Greece, 1828 — 1831.
Let us not forget that there would be no Europe, and particularly no civilized Europe, without ancient Greece. The virtues of the ancient Greeks in defending freedom (in the heroic battles (Marathon, Salamis and Plataea) at the beginning of the 5th century BC)th century BC) saved Greece and Europe from the Persian yoke. And the Greek discovery of science and advanced technology as well as beautiful sculpture, architecture, theater, philosophy and democracy built civilization. The Antikythera Mechanism of 2th century BC, demonstrates superior technology with gears. It was a Promethean astronomical calculator of genius – at least 2,000 years ahead of its time. The science of Aristotle, Archimedes and Hipparchus blazed a trail in Greek civilization. Aristotle alone constitutes a whole world. The same is true of Archimedes.
Ioannis Kapodistrias
Also, let us not forget that Ioannis Kapodistrias, 1776 — 1831, an excellent Greek diplomat in the Russian government of Emperor Alexander I, was the architect of the Swiss republic and the country's political neutrality. In 1813, for example, he neutralized Napoleon's political influence and united the 19 provinces (Cantons) with a federal system for the independence and neutrality of Switzerland. The great powers (Russia, Austria and Britain) put their stamp on this beneficial work of Kapodistrias for Switzerland. In 1815, at the Congress of Vienna, Kapodistrias prevented the dismemberment of France after Napoleon's dramatic defeat.
Its international politics today reveals some of the dangerous developments of the Kapodistrias era. Wars, civil strife, “holy alliances” and absolutisms plagued the first two decades of the 19th century.th century, particularly around the Congress of Vienna. The Ottoman Islamic empire was still plundering and oppressing southeastern Christian Europe. The Greeks were ready for revolution, which took place in 1821. Our era, the third decade of the 21st century, is a similar volcano. Wars, anarchy, tyrannies, plutocracies, obscurantism, nuclear weapons and their possible use. And global climate chaos plagues freedom, human health and the health of the natural world, as well as civilization and Mother Earth.
United Europe
The EU will benefit from studying Kapodistrias' work, especially his diplomacy and political action in Switzerland. The federal constitution he proposed for Switzerland may also be a suitable mirror and lesson for Europe to imitate.
The EU should not abolish the customs and traditions of the peoples of the states that make up the Union. If the Greek language becomes the official language of the EU, or at least is taught everywhere, then Europe will discover its Greek roots in thought, science and culture, just as it did in the 15being century of the Renaissance. The British scholar John Burnet tells us that science is nothing more than the Greek way of thinking about the world (Early Greek Philosophy, 3η edition, World Publishing Co, 1930, p. v).
With Greek thought and science, the EU will understand that it is necessary to become not only a protector of its borders but also of Mother Earth, that is, to convince the other nuclear states to bury their nuclear weapons and convert energy (for heating, traffic, agriculture and industry) from fossil fuels, such as oil, to the production of electricity from Solar and Wind energy.
Piety
As for the same religion and same faith, it is logical for Europeans to renew the ancient Greek traditions of piety for the divine (of one god or many gods) without dogmas, Bibles, sacred texts, and priesthood.
Of course, the religious issue is complex with a history of “holy” wars, crusades and timeless superstitions. Most citizens of Europe are associated with Christianity. The great enemy of Christianity was and remains Islam. In a new EU, if Muslims want to remain citizens, then they will have to be removed from their Mosques, just as Christians from their churches. If not, or the Muslims should return to their homeland, otherwise the existence of the civilized EU will continue to be problematic.
Whatever the outcome, laws should be the only rulers in a Europe that respects the virtues of justice, prudence, wisdom and freedom.
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Abduction of Europa by Zeus. Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre, 1750, Dallas Museum of Art. Wikipedia.
