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A reader's comment, reacting to this comic strip
June 22, 2010
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Dear Jean-Pierre, After reading your comments about your cruise, I was thinking about your questions regarding Greece's purchase of an expensive Russian-made hovercraft. It should be known that the country is facing alone Turkey's expansionist policy. An undeniable example is the Cyprus issue. The territory has been illegally occupied by the Turks since 1974, but the international community and the "European brothers" remain deaf to this situation. Why? Because on one hand the Americans wanted to install bases there, and on the other hand because the current Turkey is a creation of the British, French and Germans, the latter having organized the ethnic cleansing in Asia Minor. In addition to being a land of wealth, Asia Minor was and remains an exceptional geo-strategic point, a bridge between East and West.
If I explain this, it is to demonstrate that Turkey knows it can attack Greece with impunity, as it has always been unofficially supported by the West.
Turkey wants the islands of the Aegean Sea and to shake Greece's sovereignty over them.
Everything can happen very quickly (e.g., the Gavdos island incident in 1996): thus, such a weapon is not a luxury or a paranoid delirium, but the reflection of a serious diplomatic problem. It should be known that Greece is daily subjected to violations of its airspace and maritime space by the Turks, as they refuse to recognize the UN convention. Greek space is also European space, so why do the Europeans leave Greece alone to face this problem? Perhaps because it suits them...
Beyond economic and diplomatic issues, the most serious is the loss of Greece's national sovereignty.
The fact that Papandreou asked for the help of the IMF constitutes a tutelage of Greece in relation to the United States. The fact that he accepted that France and Germany made the famous rescue plan, which is nothing more than a speculation on Greece and a deliberate will to plunge the country into debt, also constitutes a tutelage. You know, during the demonstrations that cost three lives, what was said in the assembly was broadcast on Greek television. Papandreou gave a honeyed speech to call for calm, while a KKE deputy told him: "What are you meddling with, you're not even Greek! Burn the assembly, burn the assembly!"
Papandreou has an American mother, hence his nickname "the little American" and hence the feeling of betrayal by the Greek people.
Finally, the fact that he met Erdogan and called it historic so that Greece's disarmament in the face of a Turkey that will certainly take advantage of the weakness, exacerbates this feeling of betrayal.
Moreover, I will add the example of the Parthenon marbles that Greece has still not been able to recover, while Egypt recently had some of its works returned. This clearly shows the strong influence of England on the country. Then comes the issue of Macedonia, where Greece is again being pointed at because it refuses to give the name of the province of Alexander the Great to a country that has nothing to do with this history.
I will make a small parenthesis on the immigration issue, where Turkey does not respect the agreements made with the Europeans, namely not to make Greece a buffer zone. Now there are 3 million immigrants among 10 million inhabitants. Turkey continues without any reprimand, while the small over-indebted country tries to manage these flows, while being suffocated. Recently I heard that Berlusconi made an agreement with Egypt so that it would send immigrants to Greece and not to Italy. No comments, but so many things to conclude!
Therefore, Greece has no sovereignty over its nation or its own culture.
Do not forget the fact that Germany has driven the nail in with, on one hand, the famous Focus magazine controversy, which was ignored in France, and on the other hand, a German deputy asking that the Parthenon and our islands be sold. Merkel had to apologize during her last visit to Greece because we were on the verge of a diplomatic rupture. But the worst is that the trade of the islands has actually begun.
I am very pessimistic about Greece's future, and that is also why I reacted when you portrayed a Greek profiteer in your comic strip.
Because the reality is more perverse, these people are puppets of the great powers, while the people, who are called lazy in the media, suffer from inexpressible subjugation and oppression.
Theodora