A year of challenges will test our ability to float

If there is a quality that characterizes the Greek nation, it is the ability to survive the tumults of history and float above its waves. It is precisely this ability that will be tested in 2023. And - according to some - Greek-Turkish relations may be the most serious issue that will be decided. It is also significant that this is happening at a time when there is an ongoing military conflict between the West - represented on the battlefield by the Ukrainians - and President Vladimir Putin's Russia. Of course, it is worth noting that war by proxy is not a recent phenomenon.

Since the rise and consolidation of Joseph Stalin to power, the communist parties in Western Europe always served as mechanisms of subversion aimed at overthrowing the bourgeois establishment.

A similar practice was adopted by the West, led by the United States, when they assisted anti-regime...