Zelensky gathers weapons from Athens, Paris, Madrid “like a fox in the marketplace”

By Kostas Isychos

Zelensky’s visit to Athens and subsequently to Paris and Madrid has essentially one purpose, one strategy, and one objective: to seek sources of military material that will reinforce the already shaken Ukrainian NATO military machine in Ukraine, through the supply of anti-aircraft and anti-tank weapons and anything else needed at this time in order to halt a lost war — a war which, from its beginning in 2014, sought and continues to seek the complete military encirclement of Russia by Euro-Atlanticism. Also, to accelerate the “vertical corridor” for LNG supply from Alexandroupolis to Ukraine, the rest of Eastern Europe, and the Baltic states.

The war strategy of the Ukrainian NATO-aligned far right was not limited to the initiation and continuation of a bloody war in the heart of Europe. It also pursued a neo-Nazi and far-right conception of a pure Ukrainian race without linguistic, religious, or ethnic minorities from other countries and cultures. Among these was the very significant Russian-speaking and Russian minority, which has existed in this country historically. The large Greek minority of Ukraine also fell victim to the far-right policies of Ukraine’s post-Soviet governments, especially those aligned with NATO strategy.

As we learn from the few but revealing statements so far by the new U.S. Ambassador to Greece, there is also an effort to enforce energy suffocation — in commercial form — of Russia toward the West. That is, to halt any existing energy cooperation between Russia and the European Union, cooperation which has continued for about 80 years, originally with the Soviet Union. The strategy of Trumpism is to expand the supply of expensive U.S. energy and hydrocarbons to Europe and to other countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, replacing the much cheaper Russian, Iranian, and Venezuelan oil.

This is not the first time that the country’s Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, and the New Democracy government have intensified and continued a close alliance allegedly for the benefit of our country, which in reality harms Greece’s international standing — having in the past congratulated the West’s “lame horse,” Juan Guaidó, the self-proclaimed president of Venezuela. A few years ago, he embraced Mr. Mitsotakis and received the Greek government’s well-wishes as an aspiring coup leader hoping to take power in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

This tragedy in our foreign policy continues with the congratulations that the current government also offered to the recent Venezuelan Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Ms. Machado, who continues Guaidó’s strategy, serving interventionist imperialist policies in long-suffering Venezuela.

What can one say about the country’s closest ally, Netanyahu’s Israel, responsible for genocide, ethnic cleansing, racism, apartheid policies, and the colonization of Palestinian land — placing today’s Israel and its government among the darkest pages of human history.

The only thing left for the current Greek government is to also forge close relations with Mr. Milei, who has emerged as the most blatant Trumpist, pro-Zionist far-right leader — a man Trump considers his political protégé. Let us hope this does not happen, although we cannot foresee how much lower the New Democracy government may fall on the international stage.

NATO-aligned, pro-Zionist, Euro-Atlantic — believing and assuming that with such positions it will always enjoy Washington’s support. History teaches us that Washington always seeks to have many controlled players on the domestic political scene across the entire spectrum, and to a large degree it has achieved this, since systematic opposition parties rarely articulate an anti-American, anti-imperialist stance either in theory or in practice. Nor does our country seek to follow a truly multidimensional foreign policy in a world that should promote nuclear disarmament, arms reduction, and the elimination of regional wars, which continue to multiply and intensify.

Today’s Greece resembles, very strongly, Cuba in 1957 under the dictator Fulgencio Batista, with the mafia presence in the casino-capitalism of the then U.S. protectorate.

The recent arrival in Athens of the new U.S. Ambassador, Kimberly Guilfoyle, recalls how Washington has treated — and still treats — protectorate countries wishing to become military, energy, and political strongholds of U.S. imperialism.

For our country to survive, it has urgent need to develop bottom-up policies, with the people as protagonists, in order to create antidotes to an imperialist dominance that signals enormous dangers for our people and for all peoples of the region.

The much-advertised promise by Ms. Guilfoyle, the U.S. Ambassador to Greece, and by the Greek government — with the silent tolerance, if not support, of many other systemic problems nato parties — that Greece is becoming a major energy hub (in reality being turned into a service station for American and Israeli energy and military interests in the region) is deceptive. Not only is Greece not becoming an energy hub, but it essentially brings to mind the very relevant Greek saying: “the knot has reached the comb” — meaning the situation can no longer be ignored.

Member of the Political Secretariat of LAE–AA, former Deputy Minister of National Defense and former deputy

General secretary of the international Organization Friends of Crimea.

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