Athanasios Gkioles

@DailyTurkic So Hector was riding his horse in Mongolia and on the weekends he was commuting 6000 km to Troy.

There is a profound historical thread connecting Hector of Troy, Sultan Mehmed II, and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Despite living centuries apart, they share one legendary legacy: defending Anatolia from Greek invasions. 🛡️ Hector (Antiquity): He was the original defender of the Dardanelles, giving his life to protect Troy and Anatolian soil from the invading Greek coalition during the Trojan War. ⚔️ Mehmed the Conqueror (1453): According to 15th-century historian Kritovoulos, after taking Istanbul, Mehmed II visited the ruins of Troy. Standing there and he declared that he had finally "avenged the blood of Hector and the Trojans." 🪖 Atatürk (1915): Centuries later, just miles away from the ancient site of Troy, Atatürk successfully commanded the defense of Gallipoli (Çanakkale). He halted the massive Allied naval and land invasion of WWI, securing the straits and he even later stopped the Greek invasion of Anatolia in 1922 all over again.

@BosseStine Buyers (China, India, Turkey) profit directly via 40% fuel discounts and fuel re-exports. Greece profits indirectly: shipowners pay no corporate income tax due to a constitutional loophole. Greece only benefits if tycoons voluntarily reinvest these global profits domestically.

Difficult to defend 🇬🇷… 💁🏼‍♀️

@tashecon You are confusing Greece with the Greek ship tycoons, on purpose, and you fail to write WHO BUYS THAT ENERGY, again on purpose. Go pick up your baksis now and let serious people discuss these matters with all the facts.

Greece continues to make a killing on helping Russia export energy. I seem to remember a huge EU bailout of Greece, but Greece seems to be doing nothing in exchange to secure Europe’s security against Russia. Just taking $$ or RUBs.

Hey, Marcos. Do you have anything to say about this?

@marcosagusstinn EU is a monetary union. Security requires a defense alliance. In a EU defense alliance you will need to defend EU members against some NATO members. Are you ready for this or it goes against your financial interests? One way or another; hypocrisy.

🇬🇷🇪🇺 We have finally secured Greece’s withdrawal of its veto This was the correct decision. We congratulate the EU ambassadors and everyone who worked to secure this agreement. 🔸 The EU can now adopt a new round of economic sanctions against Russia 🔸 Greece received a one-year exemption for Russian LNG shipments, limiting the immediate impact on its shipping sector But this compromise does not remove the need to replace unanimity with qualified-majority voting. Europe’s security cannot remain hostage to one government. reuters.com/business/finan…

@reieurope EU is a monetary union. If you want to make it a defensive alliance, start with supporting EU nations from non EU nations aggression even if those are Nato members. Anything else is hypocrisy.

(Greek obstruction 🇪🇺🇬🇷) Greece blocks Russia sanctions after Europe saved it from collapse. 🔸 €256.6bn in assistance since 2010, the largest bailout in euro-area history 🔸 Around 69% of all bailout funds disbursed through the EFSF and ESM went to Greece 🔸 Around €12bn saved annually through exceptionally favourable loan terms 🔸 Greek bonds were included in ECB pandemic purchases despite lacking investment-grade status Now Athens is obstructing the EU’s 21st sanctions package to protect Greek shipping interests linked to Russian LNG. reuters.com/business/finan…

@thescottbarber It had a lot of Italian actors in visible roles and the emperor was not played by Samuel Jackson but from a guy who resembled the characteristics of Roman emperors of that time period.

Literally none of these people are Italian

@marcosagusstinn No unanimity= oligarchy. That will be the end of EU. As for the loans, they are being serviced and Greece paid a dire cost for having a deficit that other countries some years later with similar deficit did not. EU should start sanctionig turkey before asking anything.

🇬🇷 Greece’s actions are an act of profound disloyalty to Europe. 🔸 €256.6bn in assistance since 2010, the largest bailout in euro-area history 🔸Greece received around 69% of all bailout funds disbursed through the EFSF and ESM. 🔸 Greek bonds included in ECB pandemic purchases despite lacking investment-grade status Athens is now opposing the EU’s 21st sanctions package to protect Greek shipping interests linked to Russian LNG. Other countries accepted enormous economic costs and backed successive sanctions instead of paralysing Europe. Europe must replace unanimity with qualified-majority voting.

@DappyDuffy @BarstoolNate Μακάριοι οι πτωχοί τώ πνεύματι

@gkioles @BarstoolNate Oh trust me my ancestors' civilization is at least a millenium older than yours lmfao and aside from that, it's just even more embarrassing for you to have the word originate in your culture and not grasp its concept. It's disgraceful my son.

There’s never been a bigger signal to me that 90% of Twitter is fake than the made up culture war against the Odyssey. If you’re normal and go see the movie you have ZERO idea there’s some uproar about the casting. Everyone on this app is fake and/or insane now.

@DappyDuffy @BarstoolNate Sister, when my ancestors were talking about analogy (a Greek word) yours were competing for acorns with squirrels. I don't think you understand the meaning of the word.

@gkioles @BarstoolNate Hmm yeah the representation was clearly about them taking inspiration from existing cultures and incorporating them into a fictional nation. That's still a shit analogy lol. And if my father failed me, I am just trying to not repeat his sins with you my son, so please be good.

@DappyDuffy @BarstoolNate You want an analogy: Black Panther. "Was highly lauded for bringing depth and cultural significance".. to Wakanda. At least Troy and Ithaca existed. As for your duties, people who talk like this are the first to run with the tail between their legs. Your father failed you

@gkioles @BarstoolNate And none of that disproves the fact that your analogy was a poorly conceived false equivalence at best and a pathetic strawman at worst my son but perhaps one day I shall do my duties as a father and teach you the ways of not making an embarrassing argument

@DappyDuffy @BarstoolNate I am definitely not your son, and if the concepts of respect for cultural heritage and the facts that became the book escape you, there are infinite resources online to find them.

@gkioles @BarstoolNate Son the Iliad is a fictional book but you strawmanning using a real historical figure. You wanna see a period piece based on real events with "accurate" representation made by Nolan he already did it, it's called Oppenheimer. Lmfao

@ArtofGent Some 3000 years later another Greek poet wrote this : "As you set out for Ithaka hope your road is a long one,full of adventure, full of discovery."

With Nolan’s The Odyssey hitting screens today - here's a timely reminder of what Homer teaches us about keeping our compass pointed at what matters most: Homer shows us that true manhood isn’t the absence of storms, but the steadfast navigation through them. Odysseus faced monsters, gods, and temptation, yet never lost sight of home, duty, his wife, and his son. In a world increasingly designed to distract us, may we all embody that same resolve Homer so brilliantly captured: strength in adversity, loyalty in love, and an unwavering focus on returning to what truly matters. I know opinions are divided on the movie - will you be watching it?

Η σύγκριση των εισιτηρίων του Νόλαν στην Ελλάδα με του Ντασσέν για τον Καζαντζάκη, θα φωτίσει την ψυχή του σύγχρονου Έλληνα. 🎭✨🤔🇬🇷

A quick note from a Greece-obsessed author on the eve of Nolan’s Odyssey adaptation: I can’t litigate the casting. I'm an American in Las Vegas (I know) writing about a Macedonian king who's been dead 2,300 years. If loving a people's past from the outside is a crime, I turn myself in. What’s worth mentioning, though: Greece rebated the production €6.5 million to shoot across the Peloponnese. The Ministry of Culture was behind it. This is their national epic. And in the whole cast — Odysseus, Penelope, Telemachus, Helen, Menelaus, Agamemnon, Athena, Calypso, the suitors, Eumaeus, Sinon, Tiresias — not one Greek in a named role. During filming, Greek and Cypriot writers sent open letters to the production with a single message: We are still here. A living people whose story has never stopped being written. A €250 million production used their country, their myth, and their money, and found no room in it for them. Whatever that is, it isn't inclusion. It's a beautiful backdrop and a favorable exchange rate. So I stand by the tried-but-true adage: the book is always better.

@PaulTassi Think about something that defines your heritage, your history and your identity. Now think about someone making a travesty of this. Do you pay to watch it?

The Odyssey is going to make a bunch of money, win a bunch of awards and millions of people will love it. Hating it sight unseen because you want to be part of an edgy antiwoke movement spamming buzzwords and slurs in comment threads is just a miserable way to live.

@CinemaTweets1 "Wrong side of history" are very interesting words. The one who falsified it is by definition on the wrong side.

I have one question for the Christopher Nolan haters/for all the folks on this here app who questioned Nolan: what’s it like being on the wrong side of history? I’m truly, genuinely asking. What’s it like having to go to sleep at night knowing you were so fucking wrong? Face the music. Look in the mirror. Christopher Nolan just brushed you off his shoulder.

@joerussotweets Another one who thinks that the US is the whole universe.....

Elon Musk wishes he could make something this universally loved.

@holland_tom A film can be great but also propaganda at the same time. A person may choose to see a film because he likes cinema and another may choose to boycott because he holds truth as more important. Why do you or anyone else care what people will pay to watch?

Wondering if those who have spent months lambasting a film they haven’t seen will now, confronted by 5 star reviews for The Odyssey, reconsider their boycott, or whether they will dismiss the positive reviews as evidence of a woke conspiracy to overthrow Western civilisation?