The National Herald has reported that France is among the European Union member states that voted against imposing sanctions on Turkey. Italy and Spain also went along with Germany in refusing to impose sanctions on Turkey. The Turks will realize correctly that Greece is alone and has no friends.
Greece and Cyprus are being threatened by Turkey. Cyprus has been under Turkish occupation since 1974 and Turkey is challenging its sovereign rights over oil in Cypriot waters. Turkey is openly challenging rights to Greek islands which were ceded to Athens by international treaties in 1947. In theory, Greek and Cypriot borders are the borders of the European Union.
In reality, Greek borders are not European borders. The Europeans do not care about Greece and they never will. Turkey has always had greater strategic value than Greece. That will never change. Greece’s strong position would come from Turkey’s Islamism.
Europe does not care about Turkish Islamism because the European Union ultimately is a bloc of secular left wing countries that are terrified of Islamic extremists. Several years ago, France, England, and Belgium were the targets of attacks by the Islamic State. The Europeans were completely defenseless and completely paralyzed by the fear that more terrorists would attack.
It is therefore not entirely surprising that Europe would seek to appease Turkey. For the Germans sacrificing Greece and Cyprus is a small price to pay in order to prevent Ankara from flooding Europe with millions of Muslim refugees. The Greeks have stupidly placed their faith and their hopes in the utterly pathetic and useless European Union.
We can now begin to see the utter madness of the Church crisis that Patriarch Bartholomew provoked. Greece has far more in common historically, culturally, and spiritually with Russia than with western Europe. Yet, much of the Greek speaking world has stupidly chosen to back Patriarch Bartholomew in his war against the Russian Church.
The Greeks need to revive their relationship with Russia. Greece needs to cut off all money to the Ecumenical Patriarchate. One of the stupider things that the Mitsotakis government has done is to give two million Euros to the Holy Cross Seminary in Brookline, Massachusetts. Did the Prime Minister ask the Greek people if they wanted their money to go to the wreckage that is the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America?
The Greeks need to revive their relationship with Russia. Russian-Turkish relations will not be maintained long term. At the end of the day, Greece is being used by the United States for a possible confrontation with Russia, and possibly Iran. Greece has no conflicts with either of those countries and should not assist the west against either of those countries.
The European Union’s treachery against Greece should be a wake up call. Greece has to take control of its own sovereignty and behave like an independent country. There is no question that American and European interests dictate policies in Greece. This has to stop.
Prime Minister Mitsotakis has the option of liberating Greece from its failed pro western policies that have been pursued for centuries going back to the late Byzantine Empire. If he does not he will be another in a long line of Greek stooges who sold the nation out going back to Emperor Michael Paleologos.