Sky is the limit

Μητρός τε και πατρός και των άλλων προγόνων απάντων τιμιώτερόν εστιν η Πατρίς και σεμνότερον και αγιώτερον και εν μείζονι μοίρα και παρα θεοίς και παρ’ ανθρώποις τοις νουν έχουσι.

@CharlesMichel @vonderleyen You are funny and shameless. Turkey is a key Nato problem A key Terrorist supporter A key slavetrader supporter Had no use as energy corridor A giant with glass feet Its power is granted by some EU burocrats as yourself.

.@vonderleyen: Türkiye is: - a core #NATO ally, - a key migration partner, - an energy corridor, - a major defence actor on Europe’s flank, - and a serious regional power. Europe doesn’t get stronger by applying double standards or simplifying reality.

@CharlesMichel @vonderleyen Turkey is : -A core NATO problem -A strategic orchestrator of illegal migration -A predatory energy blackmailer -A primary security threat on Europe’s flank -And a volatile regional disruptor #TurkeyNotAnAlly

@paolomossetti @snakhooda If you cannot understand current geopolitics just read medieval history. The Turkish mongols presented a more subsrantial threat to Europe than Russians. They failed at the siege of Vienna in 1529, but they never abolished the dream to conquer Europe. The only obstacle is Greece

The same day the EU once again fails to use its leverage to slow Israel, Von der Leyen states: “We must succeed in completing the European continent so that it is not shaped by Russian, Turkish, or Chinese influence.” Turkey is, for the first time, placed in the same category as Russia and China: a systemic threat, precisely as an imperialist war, boosted by religious fanaticism, rages on the other side of the Mediterranean. And this happens at the very moment Netanyahu is escalating his campaign against Turkey. How Turkey can be seen as a greater threat than Israel by the majority of Europeans is a mystery. This is liberal nationalism laying bare its entrenchment and its clash-of-civilizations logic.

Never forget what Greece did for us 🇬🇷

El Greco, the famous Greek artist and sculptor, passed away today in 1616. Enjoy some of his famous works 👇🏼

Slab with Byzantine Imperial Emblem from the walls of Genoese Galata (c. 1304-1316) now at Istanbul Archaeological Museums ​Four betas: βασιλεὺς βασιλέων, βασιλεύων βασιλευόντων "King of Kings, Ruling over Rulers"

The argument that Rome fell because of immigration-driven population replacement doesn't really hold up when you look at the genetic and historical evidence. 90+% of the "immigrants" into Roman era Italy were ancient Greeks, coming from the most developed regions in the world with the most educated populations. They don't really count as immigrants since they were simply moving from one Roman province to another, and in most cases they were moving into areas of Italy that Greeks had already colonized and settled centuries earlier. The difference in the Imperial period is that they were now also moving into central and north Italy. So the basic premise of a totally foreign population flooding in is already wrong. What actually happened was the opposite of the decline story. They arrived centuries before the western collapse and a millennium and a half before the eastern one, and the populations they contributed to went on to produce some of the highest measured cognitive profiles in pre-modern Europe. Once you line up the genetics, the timeline, and the outcomes, this fairy tale falls apart. 90+% of the "immigrants" into Roman era Italy were ancient Greeks, coming from the most developed regions in the world with the most educated populations. They don't really count as immigrants since they were simply moving from one Roman province to another, and in most cases they were moving into areas of Italy that Greeks had already colonized and settled centuries earlier. The difference in the Imperial period is that they were now also moving into central and north Italy. You can see their genetic contribution clearly in modern Italians, which hasn't changed much since antiquity apart from minor Germanic admixture in the north. Southern Italians (Calabria, Campania, Sicily) carry 63–67% Roman-era Ancient Greek-like ancestry. Central Italians (Lazio, Tuscany, Umbria, Marche) carry 49–56%. Even northern Italians (Lombardy, Veneto, Liguria) carry 29–33%. The same Roman-era Ancient Greek-like signal shows up at around 20% in Iberia. This is not a foreign population replacing natives because it's a continuation and expansion of a Mediterranean genetic cline that already existed. The samples from Imperial Italy, around 1–200 AD (after the big migration into Italy had already happened), were mostly Greek mixed, and scored higher on PGS EDU/IQ than other Europeans, higher even than medieval Europeans who lived 1,000 years later. So the so-called "immigrants" were still smarter than the surrounding European populations. The timeline alone destroys the argument of collapse due to population replacement. The main Roman-era migration into Italy happened around 150–50 BC. The western empire fell in 476 AD, roughly 500 to 600 years later. The eastern empire fell in 1453 AD, roughly 1,500 years later. What kind of "population replacement causes civilizational collapse" mechanism takes 600 to 1,500 years to produce its effect? At that point they're not actually describing a causal process, because when your supposed cause and effect are separated by 600 to 1,500 years with an entire functioning empire in between, they're just pointing at two distant events and asserting a connection without explaining how one led to the other. If you want to argue demographics mattered for 476 specifically, the only even remotely plausible candidate is Germanic migration, and specifically the fact that Germanic immigrants became overrepresented in military commands in the 4th and 5th centuries due to corrupt political decisions by emperors and regents. And those Germanics most likely had lower intelligence than the Italians they were displacing in military roles, since medieval samples from Germany and medieval Viking samples score lower on PGS IQ/EDU than Imperial Italian samples. But even this wasn't population replacement. It was a minority being overrepresented in military positions, not a demographic shift in Italy itself. The eastern half of the empire, populated by exactly the same Greek stock that had settled central Italy centuries earlier, continued for another 1,000 years and remained the most developed civilization for centuries after the West fell. The genetics were basically the same, yet the outcome was the opposite, which is something the hypothesis cannot explain. The actual genetic evidence, as far as it goes, points in the opposite direction. Pre-modern civilizations appear to show selection for higher intelligence and lower rates of mental disorders, not against.

The blue countries are classified as advanced economies by the IMF as of 2026. Source: reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comm…

The land of modern Palestine is native to the Greeks, not to the Jews. Around 1200 BCE, during the Bronze Age Collapse, Mycenaean Greeks—later called Philistines—settled Gaza, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ekron, and Gath, civilisational founders of the Pentapolis. The very name Palestine is derived from these Philistines, who brought Aegean pottery, Greek-style burials, and Mycenaean weapons. They ruled the southern Levant centuries before any so-called “Kingdom of Israel” ever emerged. Their civilisation declined after the fall of Mycenae. Foreign empires rose—Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians—who ruled through imperial administration, not through the Hellenic polis, defined by civic identity, public life, and philosophical culture. Then came Alexander the Great. With his conquest, Hellenism returned in glory. Under his successors, the Greeks built anew: Scythopolis, Gadara, Hippos, Gerasa, Pella, Philadelphia, Dion, Canatha, Raphana, and Abila—the Decapolis, a league of Hellenic cities crowned with temples, theatres, philosophy, and the rule of law. The coastline was Hellenised including Gaza, rebuilt by Alexander in gleaming marble; Ashkelon, once Mycenaean, later a Seleucid port; Apollonia, consecrated to the Olympian Gods; and Dora and Jaffa, fortified as Greek cities with ports, temples, and civic order. Though under Greek rule, Jerusalem remained a dusty hill-town, untouched by Hellenic refinement, unworthy of the polis. After crushing the Bar Kokhba revolt in 135 AD, the Romans renamed Judea as Syria Palaestina, not because Philistines ruled the highlands, but to erase Jewish claim and identity by invoking the older, non-Jewish name tied to the coastal Philistine Greeks. The name Palaestina evoked the Philistine Greeks, who built real cities in this land long before any mythical “Kingdom of Israel”. The Jews never built a city-state in the highlands no temples of marble, no civic institutions, no codified law. Their “kingdoms” live only in myth and scripture, not in ruins or stone. The Greeks, by contrast, left behind visible civilisation. The Hellenes were not foreigners to this land, they were its native civilisers. From the Mycenaean Greek Philistines of the Bronze Age to the Hellenic architects of the Decapolis, Hellenic presence was not a passing episode, but a continuous, ancestral force cultural, political, and civilisational. The Philistine Greeks were the first to build cities in this land, long before any Jewish state ever existed.

@infodexx Are you motons? Byzantion is the name of a city founded by Greeks the 7th century bc at the location where currently Cobstantinoupolis is. The Turkish mongols invaded the Eastern Roman Byzantine Empire around 1700 years later.

The Original Names of European Countries 🗺️ 🇮🇪 Ireland — Hibernia 🇬🇧 United Kingdom — Britannia 🇫🇷 France — Gaul 🇪🇸 Spain — Iberia 🇵🇹 Portugal — Lusitania 🇩🇪 Germany — Teutonia 🇮🇹 Italy — Italis 🇨🇭 Switzerland — Helvetia 🇦🇹 Austria — Danubia 🇨🇿 Czechia — Bohemia 🇭🇺 Hungary — Pannonia 🇷🇴 Romania — Dacia 🇧🇬 Bulgaria — Thrace 🇬🇷 Greece — Hellas 🇹🇷 Turkey — Byzantion 🇵🇱 Poland — Polonia 🇺🇦 Ukraine — Kievan Rus 🇧🇾 Belarus — White Ruthenia 🇷🇺 Russia — Muscovy 🇳🇴 Norway — Norge 🇸🇪 Sweden — Svea 🇫🇮 Finland — Suomi 🇩🇰 Denmark — Jutland 🇪🇪 Estonia — Estonia 🇱🇻 Latvia — Livonia 🇱🇹 Lithuania — Litua 🇮🇹 (Southern Balkans) — Illyria 🇭🇷 Croatia — Dalmatia 🇷🇸 Serbia — Rascia 🇲🇪 Montenegro — Zeta 🇧🇦 Bosnia — Bosnia Historical regional names reflected in classical & medieval sources.

GREECE: WHAT’S ITS POWER⁉️

🔴Απρίλιος 1989: Κτηνώδης επίθεση της ΚΝΕ κατά Βορειοηπειρωτών, στην Ιατρική Σχολή Αθηνών, με καθοδηγητή τον Πολάκη. 🔴Μεγάλος αναβρασμός υπήρχε στις χώρες του «σοσιαλιστικού παραδείσου» το 1989, κι ήταν πλέον φανερό, ότι το τέλος του «Σιδηρού Παραπετάσματος» πλησιάζει. Η Αλβανία, χώρα πάμφτωχη και απομονωμένη ακόμα και από τις χώρες του σοβιετικού μπλοκ, ήταν ο πιο αδύναμος κρίκος και η προδοτική αριστερά στην Ελλάδα έτρεμε με την ιδέα της ανακίνησης του βορειοηπειρωτικού ζητήματος, μετά από την αναμενόμενη κατάρρευση του κομμουνισμού. 🔴Τον Απρίλη του 1989, ο Μητροπολίτης Κονίτσης Σεβαστιανός, γνωστός πανελληνίως και παγκοσμίως, για την μαχητική διεκδίκηση των δικαίων του Βορειοηπειρωτικού Ελληνισμού, αποφασίζει να πραγματοποιήσει εκδήλωση εθνικής αφύπνισης στην Αθήνα, με τίτλο: «Βόρειος Ήπειρος, ένα άλλο απαρτχάιντ». Ως χώρος της εκδήλωσης, επελέγη το Αμφιθέατρο της Ιατρικής Σχολής του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών. 🔴Μόλις ανακοινώθηκε η εκδήλωση, κινητοποιήθηκε η αριστερά για να την αποτρέψει! Οι απειλές και η τρομοκρατία, δεν έπιασαν τόπο. Έτσι, λίγο πριν την πραγματοποίηση της εκδήλωσης, εμφανίστηκαν «Τάγματα Εφόδου» της ΚΝΕ και των λεγόμενων «αναρχικών» (στην ουσία, πρόκειται για αριστεριστές...), αποτελούμενα από 250 άτομα, που ήταν οπλισμένα με ρόπαλα. Σύμφωνα με τα δημοσιεύματα της εποχής, αλλά καί τά φωτογραφικά ντοκουμέντα, ένας εκ των καθοδηγητών των τραμπούκων, ήταν ο Παύλος Πολάκης, φοιτητής τότε της Ιατρικής και στέλεχος της ΚΝΕ. 🔴Αρχικά, οι τραμπούκοι έκοψαν το ρεύμα στο αμφιθέατρο, για να ματαιωθεί η ομιλία του Ιεράρχη. Ωστόσο, οι διοργανωτές της εκδήλωσης είχαν προνοήσει κι έβαλαν σε λειτουργία μια γεννήτρια. Μόλις άρχισε η ομιλία, ομάδα τραμπούκων επιχείρησε εισβολή στην αίθουσα του αμφιθεάτρου, αλλά απωθήθηκε από την ομάδα περιφρούρησης. 🔴Λυσσασμένοι από την εξέλιξη, οι τραμπούκοι συγκεντρώθηκαν έξω από το αμφιθέατρο, κι άρχισαν να εκσφενδονίζουν πέτρες και άλλα αντικείμενα προς τα τζάμια του αμφιθεάτρου. Ο θλιβερός απολογισμός της δράσης των τραμπούκων, ήταν ένας σοβαρά τραυματίας, με βαριά κατάγματα στο κρανίο (ο φοιτητής Παναγιώτης Αντωνίου), κι άλλοι 19 φοιτητές, με ελαφρύτερα τραύματα. 🔴Διαβάζουμε σχετικά στην εφημερίδα «Βορειοηπειρωτικό Βήμα», τεύχος Απριλίου 1989: 🫟«ΚΤΗΝΩΔΗΣ ΕΠΙΘΕΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΚΝΕ κατά φοιτητών πού παρακολουθούσαν ομιλία του κ. Σεβαστιανού στην Πανεπιστημιούπολη – είκοσι τραυματίες... Λίγο πριν τις 5 το απόγευμα, οι αναρχοαριστερές και οι κνίτικες ομάδες είχαν καταλάβει το προαύλιο της Ιατρικής Σχολής κι έβριζαν χυδαία όσους προσέρχονταν στην εκδήλωση, ενώ φώναζαν συνθήματα όπως “Τα αλβανικά σύνορα να φτάσουν στη Λαμία”, “θάνατος στους εθνικιστές”, “Σεβαστιανέ φασίστα” και άλλα παρεμφερή.Τούς συγκεκριμένους αναρχικούς κατεύθυνε κάποιος Κοσμιρίδης, ενώ τους Κνίτες το μέλος του ΔΣ του Συλλόγου Φοιτητών της Ιατρικής και της Πανσπουδαστικής Π. Πολάκης καί ο φοιτητής της οδοντιατρικής και μέλος της ΠΣΚ Μωραίτης. Ο Πολάκης απηύθυνε “τελεσίγραφο” προς τους οργανωτές της εκδήλωσης “να τσακιστούν νά φύγουν, γιατί αλλιώς θα τους πετάξουν έξω με τις κλωτσιές”. Στο τέλος, ένας από τους υποκινητές, το μέλος της ΠΣΚ Πολάκης, συνέταξε με τα μέλη του ΔΣ του Συλλόγου που πρόσκεινται στην Πανσπουδαστική, κατάπτυστο κυριολεκτικά ψήφισμα, στο οποίο οι Βορειοηπειρώτες αποκαλούνται “φασίστες, που δεν δικαιούνται να μπαίνουν στο Πανεπιστήμιο και να κάνουν εκδηλώσεις»🫟 🔴Σε πείσμα των Πολάκηδων, σε σύντομο χρονικό διάστημα, άρχισαν να καταρρέουν το ένα μετά το άλλο, τα καθεστώτα των ηλεκτροφόρων συρματοπλεγμάτων και να αποδεικνύεται ότι ο «σοσιαλιστικός παράδεισος» ήταν μια κόλαση για τους λαούς. 🔴36 χρόνια μετά, στις χώρες που έζησαν την κόλαση, οι νοσταλγοί είναι ελάχιστοι. Στις υπόλοιπες ευρωπαϊκές χώρες, είναι λίγοι και γραφικοί. Στην Ελλάδα όμως, δεν είναι λίγοι. Βέβαια, δεν κυριαρχούν πολιτικά, αλλά ιδεολογικά και επηρεάζουν σημαντικά την πολιτική και κρίσιμους τομείς της κοινωνίας. Αυτή η ιδεολογική κηδεμονία της αριστεράς, πρέπει επιτέλους να τελειώσει, για να πάει η Ελλάδα μπροστά!~

Beautiful: Greece’s western coastline, viewed from the International Space Station (Credit: NASA Earth Observatory)

@BBCWorld Your accusations are completely unfounded and laughable. The sources of your "journalists" are at best biased. What a shame for the once accredited BBC.

Greek police using masked migrants to forcibly push other migrants back across border bbc.in/4mvyx8r

@archi_tradition @ArysPan The ancient Greek amphitheater is in Epidaurus, Argolida south of Athens. It was built 2500 years ago and ancient Greek plays are performed every summer.

Coachella? Never heard of it

@theepicmap Pure BS. Greece has one of the lowest violent crime rates in Europe. Greece traditionally reports one of the lowest homicide rates in Europe, often staying under 1.5 per 100,000. Which are your sources?

How Safe Is Walking Alone During Night in Europe? 🌙🚶‍♂️ 🇦🇱 Albania — 🟢 Safe 🇦🇹 Austria — 🟢 Very Safe 🇧🇪 Belgium — 🟢 Safe 🇧🇦 Bosnia — 🟢 Safe 🇧🇬 Bulgaria — 🟢 Safe 🇭🇷 Croatia — 🟢 Very Safe 🇨🇾 Cyprus — 🟢 Very Safe 🇨🇿 Czechia — 🟢 Very Safe 🇩🇰 Denmark — 🟢 Safest 🇪🇪 Estonia — 🟢 Very Safe 🇫🇮 Finland — 🟢 Safest 🇫🇷 France — 🔴 Not Safe 🇩🇪 Germany — 🟢 Safe 🇬🇷 Greece — 🔴 Unsafe 🇭🇺 Hungary — 🟢 Safe 🇮🇸 Iceland — 🟢 Safest 🇮🇪 Ireland — 🔴 Unsafe 🇮🇹 Italy — 🔴 Unsafe 🇽🇰 Kosovo — 🟢 Safe 🇱🇻 Latvia — 🟢 Safe 🇱🇹 Lithuania — 🟢 Safe 🇲🇪 Montenegro — 🟢 Safe 🇳🇱 Netherlands — 🟢 Safe 🇲🇰 N. Macedonia — 🟢 Safe 🇳🇴 Norway — 🟢 Safest 🇵🇱 Poland — 🟢 Very Safe 🇵🇹 Portugal — 🟢 Very Safe 🇷🇴 Romania — 🟢 Safe 🇷🇺 Russia — 🟢 Safe 🇷🇸 Serbia — 🟢 Safe 🇸🇰 Slovakia — 🟢 Very Safe 🇪🇸 Spain — 🟢 Safe 🇸🇪 Sweden — 🔴 Unsafe 🇨🇭 Switzerland — 🟢 Safest 🇬🇧 United Kingdom — 🔴 Not Safe (Source: GeoMapped)

Καλό Πάσχα! Easter celebrations in Greece 🇬🇷 Taste Greece: tasteatlas.com/greece

Χριστός Ανέστη! Христос васкрсе! Христос воскресе! Hristos a înviat! ქრისტე აღსდგა! Orthodox Easter requires the butchery and cooking of the entire lamb. Nothing is discarded. The holiday feast is built on heavy roasting, slow braising, and the intensive preparation of offal. Premium cuts like the leg and shoulder are subjected to prolonged, punishing heat. They are trapped under a heavy iron bell covered in glowing coals for the Balkan Jagnjetina ispod sača, or sealed tightly in parchment paper for Greek Kleftiko to cook entirely in their own rendered fat. However, the true core of the tradition relies on the internal organs. The pluck, consisting of the liver, lungs, and heart, is finely chopped and heavily seasoned. In Romania and Bulgaria, it is bound with eggs and baked into dense, solid blocks of Drob. In Greece, it is boiled down into Magiritsa, a thick soup heavily soured with lemon specifically designed to break the fast. The intestines undergo aggressive cleaning before being braided tightly over long skewers of sweetbreads to form Kokoretsi, which is roasted over an open fire until the outer layer shrinks and tightens into a hard crust. Even the lacy caul fat is utilized, stretched thin to wrap minced meat for Cypriot Sheftalia, melting completely into the coals. Finally, the lamb head is split and roasted whole until the cheek meat softens and the skull easily pulls apart.

@ZelenskyyUa Turkey is Europe's enemy at the gates. It is not a friend a never will be. Educate yourself.

If the United States truly thinks about withdrawing from NATO, then European security will be based solely on the European Union. But not in its current form. I think that the EU is in a situation where it needs more countries. The UK, Ukraine, Türkiye, and Norway. These are four strong countries, which are part of Europe. Together, the UK, Ukraine, and Türkiye have armies that are stronger than Russia's army. Without Ukraine and Türkiye, Europe can’t match Russia. With the four countries on board you can wrest control of the seas, have secure skies and the largest land forces. It’s not about offense, because when Russia makes the decision to have an army of 2.5 million people by 2030, Europe has to think about security and how to preserve its independence. The UK once was a member of the EU. There are concerns about agriculture when it comes to Türkiye. But you can manage all of this if you have a really great economy. But security comes first, economy second. Not vice versa. From an interview on The Rest Is Politics podcast (5/5).

El Greco, the famous Greek artist and sculptor, passed away today in 1616. Enjoy some of his famous works 👇🏼