By Nick Stamatakis
Every morning I spend a couple of minutes checking the front pages of the Greek newspapers, to get an idea of what is happening in Athens. Today the supposed “newspaper of record” in Athens, Kathimerini, had in front and center a 1991 photo of a dinner at the Mitsotakis villa in Agios Matheos in Chania where the then President Bush is pictured enjoying Marika Mitsotakis’ “famous dolmades”… George Bush Sr. was visiting Greece after 32 years the newspaper notes… And the title talks about “The Cuisine In the Service of Diplomacy”…
Kathimerini is an “establishment” newspaper – you cannot be more “establishment” than Kathimerini. They are proud to be the “NY Times of Greece,” and they never realize how degrading this is for journalists… Not to mention the well-known ties of the paper with the American Embassy in Athens…
But the propaganda, in this case, is disgusting… I cannot remember how often I used “Marika’s Dolmades” to make fun of this cheap propaganda that has no connection to reality…
The truth, of course, lies elsewhere, and I have said it many times: It was in the early 1960s when George Bush Sr. was the CIA director, and Mitsotakis visited him in DC. The connection was immediate: Mitsotakis became, for all intents and purposes, a CIA puppet – and the whole family has remained CIA puppets ever since. In the historic July 1965 constitutional problems in Greece with the fall of G.Papandreou’s government (it is now known that Mitsotakis led a group of Papandreou’s MPs paid by the CIA to withdraw their support). This started a 2-year turmoil that led to the military dictatorship. Let me remind you here that two decades later, President Clinton offered an official apology during his visit to Athens for the American involvement in these events and the support of the dictatorship…
But the Mitsotakis family has done something no other political family has done in Greece: In addition to the Americans, they managed to be agents for the Germans also – and this story goes back to the German occupation of Crete!! Amazing achievement!!
But Kathimenrini will continue to sell the “tale of Marika’s dolmadakia” forever…
July 1, 2023, n.stamatakis@aol.com www.helleniscope.com
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Greece’s choices are not pleasant ones. There can be efforts to accommodate the major powers or to be isolated and defy all of them. This web site chooses defiance. However, I see a potential for disaster if Greece is defiant and isolated.
Greece, like Turkey, holds the most precious geopolitical position on Earth. Other powers have to beg Greece for access and not Greece begging them. But due to the inadequate or treasonous (like the Mitsotakis family) leaders Greece is being exploited since the time of its independence. Only during the few years under Kapodistrias was Greece able to have an independent government. Since then, with very few exceptions, Greece was led by dwarfs. Turkey on the other side, has always had patriotic politicians. Watch how Erdogan is playing both the Russians and the West these days… He makes us jealous… The Turks however have a major flaw: megalomania. They always overestimate their importance…
But we cannot outdo the Turks on the geography issue. They have the Straits and they much more land.
Greece must carefully cultivate friendships, even with leaders we may not like.
The Turks have the Straights and we have the right to expand our territorial waters to 12 miles and lock the Aegean – leaving only navigation corridors as the Law of the Sea prescribes. Bus even as things are now Greece controls the access to the Mediterranean from the Dardanelles. Greece is the only country on earth with 6 miles territorial waters!! Doesn’t this make you wonder? The US delineated her EEZ with the Bahamas and Cuba – also archipelagic countries – using the 12-mile territorial waters line and then the middle line between the two coasts. But the traitors who run Greece find it difficult (read: prefer the briberies) to say no to the State Dept…
So who does Greece fight for a more generous Aegean limit? Turkey? The US and Britain? That would be madness.
And do not expect Russia to help Greece on this or on other major issues, no matter who is the PM of Greece.
Yes, there is evil in the world. But your apparent attitude of favoring extreme Greek militance reminds me of a saying that was used in the US manned space program: “No problem is so bad that it cannot be made worse.”
Your attitude is beyond explanation. Why would Greece be the only country on earth without taking advantage of its rights, according to international law, to have 12 miles of territorial waters? Greece does not have to fight anyone. Greece has to declare its rights according to law. Those of us who have studied law know that if you don’t exercise a legal right, this right weakens and in the end you lose it. Nobody expects Russia to help Greece. Russia takes care of her own interests and so should Greece. If you call declaring these rights “extreme militants” then you live on another planet and there is no point to continue this discussion.