What is at stake in the government’s stay is national integrity, the former prime minister stresses
The former prime minister, with an article on the website of the Institute of Foreign Affairs, is made by an article on the website of the Institute of Institute. Alexis Tsipras, arguing that “what is at stake in the stay of the government and its politics is unfortunately not only political, economic and social stability, but also national integrity.”
Mr Tsipras starts from the war in Ukraine, noting that he was neither unpredictable nor inevitable and adds that apparently the blatant violation of international law, with the invasion of a third country, is burdened by President Putin’s Russia. But, clarifying the escalation of the events that led to the conflict, a calm observer concludes that she could have been avoided, If the West did not insist on the prospect of Ukraine integration into NATO.
Subsequently, he states that The war was a tragedy for Ukraine and a defeat for Europe.
As he points out:
- 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, especially from the US, who today behave as a colony and demanding the property of its rare earths, in return for the support they provided for a war that eventually disrupted it.
- Great defeated Europe. Instead of weakening the Russian economy, the European and especially the German was weakened. So what did Europe achieve, from its insistence to support the war to the end of the choice to pursue a diplomatic solution? Probably to shoot her legs.
- 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, Donald Trump. 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 brings it to an existential threat to its sovereignty and security.
Mr Tsipras then submits his proposals for Europe:
- The EU must be a geopolitical force not only for deterrence, but also of peace and stability, and to upgrade its role in tackling major contemporary challenges, such as climate crisis, migration and managing artificial intelligence. Urgent need for:
- A radical EU shift to the 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, at last, stand up to the circumstances of Israel and the need for peace in Palestine by ending Israeli businesses that have led to tens of thousands of civilians dead.
He then refers to Greece and criticizes the ND government:
- The ND government has been devastating the Ukrainian.
- 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.
- By offsetting its incorrect and impassable strategy, the government is expected to turn the debate into 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 value of 8 billion aircraft and frigates, and the strategic agreement) at the expense 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 as not to 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 the field in relation to the energy and even the Greece-Cyprus-Israel electric interconnection.
Necessary to change strategy