The fight of false realities

Former prime minister Antonis Samaras did not avoid the well-trodden path that I pointed out a year ago in Kathimerini: "The refrain of every one of his statements, every one of his speeches, every one of his interviews is 'And it turned out that I was right.'"

In the interview last Sunday which caused his expulsion from ruling New Democracy for claiming that the government is following a policy of appeasement toward Turkey, he argued that, this time, he is right on a pan-European level: "I have warned Europe and Greece about all this, a hundred times… And then some people looked at me strangely," he was quoted as saying in his interview with To Vima. 

But this is more than just a quaint addition to the various interventions of the former premier. The main issue here is that he creates false realities in order to defend himself and/or to fight. So, for example, to the...