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Το εύδαιμον το ελεύθερον, το δ’ ελεύθερον το εύψυχον. (Επιτάφιος Λόγος του Περικλή)

@Pai_estovir In the eastern and much more vulnerable flank, it was the Orthodox who defended Christianity and Europe for more than 1,000 years, until they eventually fell, to a large extend also because of the betrayal of Catholics and the sacking of Constantinople through the 4th Crusade.

Quando os islâmicos estavam dominando o mundo e perseguindo os cristãos, não foram os protestantes que defenderam o cristianismo, que guardaram as relíquias, as tradições, e heranças da fé; foram os católicos, cruzados, templários, monges e padres.

@RnaudBertrand To be fair, isn’t she simply saying what the Germans want her to say?

Another day, another rabidly idiotic statement. There is truly no overstating how much of a walking disaster Kallas is for Europe. Yesterday she called China a "disease" for Europe (specifically "cancer"), and now she's saying the EU can't have a Middle East strategy because - brace yourselves - there's just too much going on there. This comes among hundreds similarly idiotic statements - basically every time she opens her mouth. When you choose people like this to be your voice to the world, you deserve every ounce of irrelevance and mockery coming your way.

@Kristof_Poland How can you ignore Greece? The father and grandfather of all of that was the Hellenic world, including the Eastern Roman Empire/Byzantium, which lasted for 1,000 years, protecting Christianity and Europe’s eastern and most vulnerable flank.

For a Structure for The West The West should stop speaking of itself in terms of markets, institutions, or military alliances. A civilization is not merely an arrangement of interests – it is a complex edifice and a living organism at the same time. It needs a body, a mind, a soul, a skeleton, and the will to endure. America supplies the muscle: power, scale, dynamism, efficiency and youthful energy. It is the force that builds, defends, accelerates. In moments of danger, it acts. In moments of possibility, it expands. It may be a bit clumsy at times, but is absolutely necessary. Without strength, no civilization survives; America remains the West’s vital engine. France brings depth. It carries the memory of what civilization means: intellectual rigor, refined statecraft, philosophical clarity (sic!:), and cultural confidence. France reminds the West that power without meaning becomes mere machinery. Italy gives form to beauty. Art, style, architecture, pleasure, and the wisdom of how to live well – these are not luxuries, but essentials of a healthy civilization. A world worth defending must also be a world worth inhabiting. Italy teaches that elegance is civilizational strength. Poland contributes something harder to define, but perhaps most essential: spirit. The Spirit of Liberty, resilience, and survival. The refusal to surrender identity under occupation, pressure, or historical catastrophe. Poland remembers what many others have forgotten – that civilization is preserved not only by prosperity, but by sacrifice and inner endurance. Together, these form something much greater than a political bloc. A civilizational organism. A living commonwealth: muscle, memory, beauty, and spirit bound together in one living whole. But even a healthy organism needs structure. It needs bones, nerves, and an immune system. Institutions that defend it. Borders that preserve it. Traditions that transmit it. Laws that give it coherence. And people who are responsible for it. Without structure, spirit dissipates, culture fragments, strength turns aimless, and beauty decays. What else completes the living entity? Wisdom – to distinguish renewal from self-erasure. Faith – to believe that this inheritance is worth carrying forward. And the confidence to create families, cities, ideas, and futures rather than merely consuming what previous generations built. The West needs disciplined elites who understand the above. Those elites have yet to be built… A civilization survives when its spirit, culture, power, and beauty recognize themselves as parts of the same whole. The West’s challenge is not only to defend itself, but to understand and remember what kind of a living beast it is. 🦅

@Kristof_Poland Alexander the Great expanded Hellenic culture in the East, which later helped enable the spread of Christianity. Constantine and Justinian were also the emperors who legalised, strengthened, and enabled Christianity.

The Six Guys who Built The West What those three little French dudes were trying to destroy (deconstruct), someone had to construct in the first place. Everything of any value has to be built by someone. Meet our civilizational founding fathers – actually three pairs of guys: First came Socrates and Aristotle. Socrates introduced something revolutionary: the idea that truth emerges through disciplined adversarial inquiry. Not through tribal instinct, not through force, not through revelation, but through rational confrontation between arguments. He taught Europe how to question. With Plato as the adversary, Aristotle then taught it how to think systematically. He transformed Greek philosophical brilliance into a usable civilizational framework: logic, ethics, political theory, biology, rhetoric. Above all, Aristotle established the conviction that reality is intelligible and that reason can genuinely know something about it. Modern science, legal reasoning, universities, and the entire Western confidence in rational inquiry descend from this foundation. Then came Caesar and Augustus. The Greeks discovered truth, but the Romans discovered continuity. Caesar shattered the exhausted paralysis of the late Republic and demonstrated that civilizations require decision, hierarchy, and political will. Augustus then performed the harder task: transforming raw power into durable order. He stabilized Rome into institutions capable of surviving generations – structure and infrastructure: roads, law, administration, military, citizenship, imperial governance. Rome gave the West its skeleton: the idea that civilization requires form, discipline, sovereignty, and institutions capable of transmitting order across time. Finally Jesus and Thomas Aquinas. The Greeks gave the West reason. The Romans gave it order. Christianity gave it the soul. The revolutionary claim introduced by Christianity was not theological; it was anthropological. Jesus transformed the moral imagination of the West by introducing an idea almost incomprehensible to the ancient world: that every human soul possesses intrinsic dignity. In a civilization where power determined value, Christianity elevated the weak, the poor, the suffering, the outcast. It placed moral limits on power and insisted that conscience transcends empire. But it was Aquinas who took this explosive spiritual vision and integrated it into a coherent intellectual edifice. He reconciled revelation with Aristotelian reason, faith with logic, theology with natural law. In doing so, he prevented Europe from collapsing into irrational mysticism on one side or sterile materialism on the other. Aquinas transformed Christianity from a spiritual revolution into a civilizational architecture capable of sustaining universities, legal systems, science, philosophy, and moral order simultaneously. Everything else followed from there. The university, the cathedral, the republic, the scientific revolution, constitutional government, individual liberty, the legal order, the pursuit of truth, the moral limitation of power – all of it emerged from the interaction of these foundations. Greek rational inquiry. Roman order and statecraft. Christian moral anthropology. Remove any one of them and the West becomes unintelligible. Those little modern deconstructionists don’t get that civilization isn’t a spontaneous byproduct of power relations, but an extraordinarily delicate moral and intellectual achievement. The institutions built across millennia and the habits required to sustain it – truth-seeking, discipline, sacrifice, moral restraint, reverence for learning, transmission between generations. The West survived because generation after generation believed there existed something higher than appetite, tribe, and power. Something worth seeking, building, defending, and transmitting. That is what those men built. We inherited it. And civilizations that forget how they were built end up forgetting how to survive.

@Kristof_Poland If by West you mean only the Catholic/Protestant West then you have a point, otherwise I wouldnt include Aquinas. He defended the theological error of Fillioque that contributed to schism. Christianity is spiritual, mystical and metaphysical, not just a rational construct.

@IMPERATORAUS Neither of the two versions is OK. Ancient Greeks were not Nordic-looking either. They had a white Mediterranean appearance, similar to modern Greeks.

It's been almost 3,000 years, and we still can't agree on whether the hero of the Iliad is Achilles, Hector, or Diomedes – but at least we can all agree that the real villain of the Odyssey is Christopher Nolan.

@space_homer Hans from Bavaria has an identity crisis.

Modern Greeks think they're the descendants of ancient Greeks. The real descendants are of course us Germans. We were the ones that rediscovered the ancient Greek texts and translated them accurately. Apollo lived in Weimar. We uncovered the ruins of Troy.

@space_homer @HyperVoreian a “German supremacist”, who is not comfortable being German. 😂

@HyperVoreian I'm not a Nordicist, I'm a German supremacist. And indeed, fuck them.

@space_homer As Voltaire said the Holy Roman Empire was "neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire". Unfortunately you are germanic, deal with it.

We're also the true descendants of Rome btw, but since they're Trojans, it makes us doubly Greek.

@JJ_MM_99 @nntaleb They already established that with Egypt, as they also did with other countries in the region such as UAE etc. Israel currently is much more significant regardless how sustainable this alliance is. The existential threat from Turkey is neither folklore nor exaggerated.

@eightblack_ @nntaleb It would make more sense to establish more cooperation with Egypt... who in the long run won't tolerate Is*ael as it does now and will have a rivalry with Turkey (who doesn't stant Is*ael either) over the hegemony in the East Mediterranean. Is*awl isn't a sustainable project.

@nntaleb @JJ_MM_99 You talk nonsense. Under the current geopolitical dynamics it makes absolute sense to establish cooperation with the Israelis. Palestinians and Lebanese have been treated well in Greece for many years.

@JJ_MM_99 Sucking up for Netanyahu

@ChristofidesCY Σωστά δεν ειναι αυτα πατριωτισμός, αλλα τίποτα απο όλα αυτα δεν πληρωσαμε. Ανικανότητα και έλλειψη διορατικότητας πληρώσαμε. Επίσης τον εθνομηδενισμό και τον ψευτοπροοδευτισμο ακόμα τον πληρώνουμε.

Πατριωτισμός δεν είναι οι εθνικές παρελάσεις, τα στερεότυπα κλισέ, η ανούσια και τετριμμένη ρητορεία, η κομπλεξική περηφάνεια, η αστόχαστη επανάληψη μύθων ανωτερότητας, η εκμετάλλευση εθνικών συμβόλων, η μούχλα της συντήρησης, η απέχθεια για τον αλλο. Ολα αυτά τα πληρώσαμε ...

@ChristofidesCY @AndreasLeonido2 μήπως η “ιδιωτική εταιρία” είναι ο τρόπος να δραστηριοποιηθεί νομικά το ΕΚΠΑ στην Κύπρο ; Επίσης τι σχέση έχει η χουντα με τον ελληνισμό, τον ελληνικό λαό και το ελληνικό πανεπιστήμιο; και ο Μακαριος έκανε τεράστια ζημιά στον ελληνισμό ίσως μεγαλύτερη.

@AndreasLeonido2 Και ένα δις φοιτητές να σπουδάσουν δωρεάν στην Ελλάδα δεν θα ξεπληρώσει ποτέ το κακό που η χούντα των Αθηνών έκανε στην Κύπρο. Όμως αυτό δεν είναι το θέμα μας. Δεν μιλούμε καν για το ΕΚΠΑ αλλά για μια ιδιωτική εταιρεία. Μπορείς να καταλάβεις τη διαφορά?

Το Ελένειο είναι το εμβληματικό σχολείο της πρωτεύουσας. Ως Πρύτανης προσπάθησα πολύ να το λειτουργήσει το Παν/μιο Κύπρου ως πειραματικό. Μάταια! Σήμερα, με παρέμβαση του αρχιεπίσκοπου και με έναν πρόεδρο να συμπεριφέρεται ως νομάρχης "δωρίζεται" σε ξένο Πανεπιστήμιο. Ντροπή!

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@NFarantouris Πως εξηγείτε εσείς τους χειρισμούς τους? Είναι θέμα απλής ανικανότητας, κακών συγκυριών ή κάτι άλλο…? Από τους 4 που αναφέρετε ειδικά οι 2 δεν έχουν κανένα ειδικό βάρος σε εθνικά ζητήματα. Μπράβο σας πάντως που τα εθνικά θέμα δεν τα βλέπετε με κομματικές παρωπίδες

#Καραμανλής #Παπανδρέου #Σαμαράς #Τσίπρας. Υπάρχει ένας κοινός παρονομαστής τεσσάρων πρώην Πρωθυπουργών της Ελλάδος: Η κραυγή αγωνίας για τη στρατηγική #απομόνωση της πατρίδας μας & τις συνεχείς #οπισθοχωρήσεις στα κυριαρχικά μας δικαιώματα. Πέρα από κόμματα & πολιτικές διαφορές.

@AngelosSyrigos Αντι να κανετε βιντεο να εξηγείτε γιατί ενοχλούνται με την ύπαρξη μας κάποιοι, καλύτερα κάντε ένα βίντεο να εξηγείσετε γιατι η κυβέρνηση σας είναι ανίκανη να υπερασπίσει τα εθνικά μας συμφέροντα και έχουμε γίνει της καρπαζιάς απο όλους.

Γιατί η Τουρκία ενοχλήθηκε από την ανακοίνωση για τα θαλάσσια πάρκα στο Ιόνιο και στο Αιγαίο; #greece #turkey #sea

@AngelosSyrigos Κύριε καθηγητά, παριστάνετε τον βλάκα? Αυτή είναι η έγνοια μας ? Είστε άχρηστοι.

Είναι νόμιμη η προσωρινή αναστολή της εξετάσεως της υποβολής των αιτημάτων ασύλου; Tι ισχύει σύμφωνα με το ευρωπαϊκό δίκαιο; #libya #migration #greece #asylum

A Greek monk at Mount Athos grabs a large flag of the Byzantine Empire and runs to greet the pilots of Hellenic Air Force fighter jets flying by 🇬🇷

@BBCBreaking Your sources and narrative are total BS. Why are they constantly crossing, in masses, from Turkey to Greece? The Greek coastguard is saving thousands of them. You are sending them to Rwanda.

The Greek coastguard threw nine migrants to their deaths in the Mediterranean, witnesses say bbc.in/45r6aiY

@GreekAnalyst ακριβώς

Από την πρώτη στιγμή της δεύτερης θητείας της, και παρά τη μεγάλη λαϊκή εντολή που έλαβε, η κυβέρνηση αυτή φάνηκε καταδικασμένη να δώσει στην καλύτερη ένα μέτριο αποτέλεσμα και στη χειρότερη ένα αρκετά κακό. Η σύνθεση του Υπουργικού τα έλεγε όλα εξ αρχής. x.com/GreekAnalyst/s…

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