@NickGr That's cute. But the fact of the matter is that Greece is barely even a sovereign country. It was "made up" at the weakest point of the Ottoman Empire by Western Powers. Prior to that it hadn't existed for centuries. You bunch have served as our slaves and bitches. Fast forward to today, Greece has proven itself to be a failed experiment because you lazy, corrupt fvcks are incapable of even running a small EU economy. Bailout after bailout failed. You are OWNED by the Germans today just as you were OWNED by the Turks back in the day.
As for Greece and alliances. LMAO! That's a good joke. Greece is a vassal state, a customer, a prostitute. It cannot form alliances. It is ordered to fight on its owners' side. Nothing more.
As for the Griks not "being scared". Hahhaha! Yeah right. That's why you spend more on military than any other European country on a per capita basis and that despite your fragile economy... That's right, arsefear can make a nation do crazy things.
Vord you seem to forget easily, not a long time ago(2001 for example) you were in a similar state with the inflation raging, the turkish lira collapsing and under the IMF and other western institutions help. It was the reforms from the IMF along with turkish economists ofc, that brought western foreign invenstments to Turkey and you recovered and prospered till now.
The "made up at the weakest point of the ottomans" tells me nothing, we have our own history long time ago, history which you even recognise, dating back from ancient Greece to macedonian and then hellenistic kingdoms, then conquered by romans and after its division to western and eastern, the latter was greek dominated. You recognised us so by calling us rums(stands for the eastern romans) or yunan(which dates back to the ionian people, who left ancient Athens, colonised Asia Minor coastal cities, so your complaints about our history should turn back to you.
An empire always confronts multiple enemies at once, the eastern roman(aka byzantine) empire for example wasn't confronting only seljuks and afterwards ottomans, but other enemies as well(bulgarians, russians, latins etc), you fell mostly from the inside(corruption, low productivity and incompetitive economy when others were making huge leaps, etc) just as the eastern roman did, most empires fall from the inside actually if you see it historically.
Greece as a "vassal state, customer and prostitute" chose the right alliances and fought on the winners side in the balkan wars, in WW1 and WW2 and increased its territory. Thank you for your kind words, they remind me the reasons why greeks revolted against the ottoman slavery and gained their independence. The fact that in the past we spent(even now are to a relatively big level even though cuts have been made) big time in military weapons is so as not to be afraid, the USSR(not a similar comparison, just to show the % of gdp argument) for example in the past was spending even more as a % of their gdp, could you say the USSR was afraid of anyone? Other european states after the Cold war spent a lot less and were able to develop their economies better, advantage which we couldn't have.
