“Strong and autonomous Greece with a multidimensional strategy and not a willing follower to answer the rapid geopolitical shifts,” the former prime minister notes Alexis Tsipras In his intervention on the geopolitical developments and the position of our country.

Among other things, he states that ‘the war in Ukraine He was not unpredictable, nor inevitable “while also adding that” the EU must be a geopolitical power not only of deterrence, but also of peace and stability. ”

“The ND government has been devastating the Ukrainian. Instead of supporting the Ukrainian people against the Russian invasion, in a way that maintains its ability to play the role of pillar of peace and stability in the region, it blindly followed the doctrine of the given and willing ally, pioneering in the vanguard of the confrontation. “Change of strategy is immediately necessary to recover Greece’s role as a pillar of peace and stability,” he says.

In detail the main points from Tsipras’ intervention:

Ukrainian-Russia

– The war in Ukraine was not unpredictable, nor inevitable. Obviously, the blatant violation of international law, with the invasion of a third country, burdens President Putin’s Russia. But, clarifying the escalation of the events that led to the conflict, a calm observer concludes that it could have been avoided if the West did not insist on the prospect of Ukraine’s integration into NATO.

– The war tragedy for Ukraine and a defeat for Europe. It costs and primarily costs Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. Tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians lost their lives for the integrity and sovereignty of their homeland. However, part of Ukrainian domination was lost by its enemies on the battlefield, as Russia occupied about 20% of its territories. And another of its allies, and especially from the US, who now behave as a colony and demanding the property of its rare earths, in return for the support they provided for a war that eventually dismantled it.

– Great defeated Europe. Instead of weakening the Russian economy, the European and especially the German was weakened. In the energy sector, the US not only had no losses but gained profits. So what did Europe achieve from its insistence on supporting the war against the choice to seek a diplomatic solution? Probably to shoot her legs. Its decision not to object to the US selection of Open Door Policy for Ukraine and in particular its choice to lead the war, instead of taking a role in claiming a diplomatic solution for its ending, led to disastrous consequences. First of all economic.

– Instead of Europe, even now, to lead the effort to cease fire on the Ukrainian front and find an immediate diplomatic solution, the leader is the US president. Instead of seeking the terms of a new security architecture that shields its interests towards Russian interventions, but also including Russia, restoring, among other things, energy cooperation with it, it reduces it to an existential threat to its sovereignty and security.

Europe

– The EU must be a geopolitical force not only for deterrence, but also of peace and stability, and upgrade its role in tackling major contemporary challenges, such as climate crisis, migration and managing artificial intelligence. Urgent need for:

• A radical turn of the EU to Ukrainian, with the aim of peace and building a new architectural security
• The large-scale public debt issue for defense and support of European public goods- for green transition, climate crisis and cohesion policies.
• Radical incisions for the completion of the European market described in the Draghi and Letta exhibitions.
• Give the message to the US that Euro -American relations can only be developed on the basis of mutual respect, border respect and non -involvement in the internal affairs of European countries.
• The EU finally stand up to the circumstances of Israel and the need for peace in Palestine, with an end to Israeli businesses that have led to tens of thousands of dead civilians.

Greece

– The ND government has been devastating the Ukrainian. Instead of supporting the Ukrainian people towards the Russian invasion, in a way that maintains its ability to play the role of pillar of peace and stability in the region, the doctrine of the given and willing ally followed blindly, leading the vanguard of the confrontation.

– Today, on the one hand, it is not able to play any role for peace and finds it difficult to find contact with the Trump government, on the other hand it has been excluded from all the French -British initiatives for Ukraine.

– I had warned that the doctrine of “we belong to the West” in a rapidly changing world is obsolete and incorrect. I had highlighted the need for a multidimensional foreign policy, noting that “we belong to both the West and the East and the North and the South.”

– By offsetting its incorrect and impassable strategy, the government is expected to turn the debate to perennial and costly equipment programs next year. Is it to blame that we don’t have enough planes, underwater and frigates for not even daring to the Greek-Cyprus-Israeli electric interconnection cable, beyond our six nautical miles? With the strategy of given and willing ally, the government failed to secure the US (despite the allocation of six military installations and the Alexandroupolis port indefinitely), France (despite the 8 billion aircraft and frigates, and the strategic agreement, which I was in a strategic agreement. weight of our values ​​and our relationships with Arab countries).

– At a critical time tomorrow, Greece will be alone, no matter how eager it has been in its allies for the last six years. The question is how powerful it is, not only its deterrent power, but also its determination, as we have shown in 2018 against the attempt by the Barbaros research to enter a Greek continental shelf.

– Equally important is the diplomatic strategy that Greece must have so that we do not reach a point of conflict. The government has failed to promote an effective strategy, both in relation to the prospect of appealing to the Hague Court and in the field in relation to the energy and even the Greece -Cyprus -Israeli electric interconnection.

– Changing strategy is immediately necessary to recover Greece’s role as a pillar of peace and stability, as well as to defend and expand our country’s sovereignty and sovereignty in peace and security.

Is urgent and necessary, directly:
• To shift strategic cooperation with the US from the basis of the logic of given and willing ally on the basis of mutual respect and benefit.
• Ensure Greece’s active involvement in each process that concerns the next day for European defense and peace in Ukraine. In this context, and in coordination with Cyprus, strict conditions are put into the EU, including the removal of Casus Belli and the Cyprus issue, for any cooperation.