@HorasaniTurki Yes, we ate nothing and did not know how to use the abundance of vegetables and herbs the Mediterranean has until Slavs and Turks arrived thousands of years later to show us 🤦♂️ you’re seriously retarded.
@xruiztru No one claims Rome wasn’t Roman because Italy didn’t exist. No one claims the Germans didn’t exist because Germany wasn’t unified. The same logic applies to ancient Greece.
Spain is arming Turkey- a state that openly threatens fellow EU members with war and continues to occupy EU territory in Cyprus.
That is a position unworthy of a European partner Javi. Don’t you dare lecture anyone about European solidarity.
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@EvrenSAuthor If your methodology uniquely concludes that modern Greeks lack continuity with the Hellenes, perhaps the problem isn’t centuries of scholarship—it’s your methodology. Xx
@oxpal@robin_j_brooks You’re conflating “largest fleet” with “largest violator.” Those are not the same thing. Show evidence of breaches, not assumptions based on tonnage.
@EvrenSAuthor This reads less like history and more like an attempt to deny Greek continuity while insisting on Turkic exclusivity. The double standard is impossible to miss. Ps Citing a list that AI gave you to prove your point doesnt make your point more valid. Just sayin
@jurgen_nauditt Biggest merchant fleet ≠ biggest culprit. Greece’s shipping sector is global, privately owned and governed by international rules. Punish sanctions violators wherever they’re from—but stop using Greece as a convenient headline.
How would Greeks feel if another European country did the same to us?
You mean-entirely hypothetically, of course-if a European country armed, with advanced weapons and fighter jets, the very state that formally threatens Greece with war and occupies part of Cyprus?
Funny you should ask!
@EvrenSAuthor Your bibliography is about how states are constituted and recognised in political science. It doesn’t demonstrate that historical identity depends on uninterrupted statehood. That’s the distinction you still haven’t addressed.
@reieurope “Greek shipowners” ≠ “Greece.” You’re attributing the actions of private commercial actors to an entire nation while ignoring that shipping is a global industry governed by international rules. That’s rhetoric, not analysis.
@LiinamaeO@tashecon You’re mistaking one KPI for the entire balance sheet. Greece is one of NATO’s highest defence spenders (~3% of GDP), protects the Alliance’s southeastern flank, and has supported Ukraine. Security burden-sharing isn’t measured by a single chart.