“There are many territories on which we are fighting and which we must protect if we are to protect our sovereignty. There is not only territorial territory along with sovereign rights such as the continental shelf or the EEZ. There is the territory of language, which is directly connected with the national consciousness. There is another territory, which is the top. The territory of liberal democracy, which is the territory of the West. “We must defend the territory of liberal democracy and make any people who want to be part of this territory part of it,” he stressed. Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Professor of Constitutional Law, Evangelos Venizelosspeaking at the web event on “1821 Responses to the Geopolitical Challenges of 2022”.
Mr. Venizelos underlined the fact that Russia today restores the theory of “living space”, while noting that her issue nuclear threat changes the data in international force correlations.
“For the countries that were members of the Soviet Union and which are currently in some process that could lead to membership in the EU and NATO, Russia has a clear objection, it considers that security issues are raised, the countries do not want to join NATO, certainly, deep down I think, not even in the EU and does not recognize their sovereignty. Especially in the case of Ukraine does not even recognize the national identity. He considers them part of the Russian world. The theory of the Russian world is the foundation on which the strategic narrative of this invasion of war and humanitarian catastrophe is built. This war is a re-enactment of the way the Cold War ended, in fact a war that was not fought in 1990, when the Soviet Union was “dissolved” and what is on the table is the question of spheres of influence. Russia says, “I’m a superpower, I have to have a living space.” The theory of living space comes to the surface from the nightmarish depths of the past, and what we see is a war that, we hope, will end up being cold, but at the moment it is evolving very hotly and in an extreme way because it was set from the beginning. nuclear threat issue. Europe is powerless in the face of the nuclear threat. It’s in dire need of both the United Kingdom and the United States, because otherwise the West will not be formed as a nuclear deterrent. “
The war in Ukraine and Greek-Turkish relations
Changes in international correlations also affect Greek-Turkish relations Mr. Venizelos stressed and spoke about “a change of page in Greek-Turkish relations”.
Turkey knows that the war in Turkey highlights its “geopolitical condemnation”, to be the advanced outpost of the West in relation to Russia.
Russia has made us understand that since the issue is the nuclear threat and this also concerns Turkey, without NATO without the Americans, there is no European defense. We have to wait for what will happen in the new balance of power between the US and China, to which Russia will also belong. Turkey will pursue a pro-Western policy because that is its geographical relationship. “Regional problems, such as the Cyprus issue or Greek-Turkish relations, depend, as during the Cold War, on correlations at a higher level.”
“The dilemma of 1821 was the relationship between the nation and the independent state that claimed in the global balance of power. This is the dilemma even now “, said Mr. Venizelos and stood especially in the program text of Alexandros Mavrokordatos, noting that it was the basis on which the policy of the newly formed state was based.
“In the narration of Alexandros Mavrokordatos, Greece and not the declining Ottoman Empire could be the embankment to the Russian descent,” said Mr. Venizelos, adding that Alexander Mavrokordatos sought relations with all the great powers of the time. raised the issue of relations with the US.
“The choice from 1821 to 27 is in today’s terms pro-Western,” he stressed.
“There will be no ‘end’ to the war in Ukraine. “If there is, this will take the form of a new framework in relations initially between the West and China and additionally between the West and Russia,” Venizelos added.
“What is really happening is a ‘new land reclamation’ in the sense of a new Cold War. “And he estimated that in Ukraine, we will live a very big adventure, tragic, unthinkable.”
The West has an obligation to put an end to Ukraine
“Right now, the West is behaving Zelenskyvery friendly, sends him financial and military aid but behaves like the Soviet Union in Zachariadis, during the period of the Greek civil war. “It helped, but it was not involved,” he said, concluding.
“The other side knows that. It is a limit. That is why the West, including Europe, has an obligation to put an end to Ukraine, not on the territory of Ukraine, but on the new balance of power, including the parameter called China, which is very important. Otherwise we will have abandoned to his fate a people of 44 million and a country of many thousands of hectares, we will have created an incurable wound, in the body of the civilized world, especially in the body of Europe “.
The discussion was attended by Professor of Philosophy of Law and Theory of Institutions and Director of Research at the Center for Liberal Studies (KEFIM), Aristidis Chatzis.
The discussion was moderated by journalist and communication consultant, Noni Karagianni.
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