Bananiot wrote:Remember the other day how proud we were when we told the whole world that Russian warships and warplanes would be exercising in the Aegean? One almost felt sorry for the Turks who were seen to be at the receiving end as Russia was obviously coming to the rescue of Orthodoxy, eventually. Here and in Greece, the bigots had a field day. However, things are not always as they seem to be, to our (constant) astonishment.
Here are the headlines today:
“Athens and Nicosia, frozen stiff”
“Joint Turko-Russian exercises between Rhodes and Cyprus”
Apparently, the Russians had asked for facilities for their exercise, without telling Greece and Cyprus that Turkey was also part of the exercise. Athens and Nicosia and all the bigots of this forum considered the coming of the Russian fleet to the Mediterranean for the first time in 30 years as a significant event for the advancement of our national issues. In fact they were sure that such was the momentum after Christofias’s visit to Moscow that Russia was about to put Turkey in its place.
Thus, what really happened is that we gave permission to Turkish war ships and aeroplanes to engage in all sorts of exercises within the FIR of Nicosia and on top we boasted about it.
I think GR will take a long time to get over this.
P.S. We still have France, don’t we?
Extremism can be characterized as the adoption, circulation and attempted enforcement of always one-sided, often irrational and myopic ideas and views, by all means possible -including violence and intimidation, but also deception, distortion and falsification of facts and evidence. I have said many times that as far as the Greek Cypriot society is concerned, there are two types of extremism, as many as the two far ends of the political and the ideological spectrum. People falling for either of the two types of extremism are usually psychologically imbalanced individuals, suffering from various kinds of personality disorders and a usual inferiority /superiority complex.
In Cyprus, when it comes to its national issue, known as the “Cyprus problem,” we have those advocating a nationalistic, self-righteous and uncompromising approach that calls for “all or nothing,” and up until a miraculous situation emerges through which we will gain all that we are entitled to. Such (extremist) people are seating on the one far end of the political and social spectrum. At the other end of this same spectrum, we have (extremist) people who profess the notion that we are “small and weak,” the opponent (Turkey) is “big and strong,” we have “lost” the “war” in 1974, it was all our “fault” for what happened, and therefore we should bow to the terms, capitulate and deposit “soil and water” by the feet of the “winner” -our “master” in their way of thinking, so that the “master” (Turkey in our case) "allows" us to ta least survive.
According to these extremist people of the later type -a typical example of whom is Bananiot (he did not chose the name by accident, as it implies that he is a member of a “banana republic’s” society –that is how he views his country and its citizens,) we are doomed, we have no chance, and therefore we should “behave” like “good boys” and do as we are told by those “stronger” to us, i.e. our Anglo-American “masters.” Even in our day and age, they subscribe to the doctrine that “might is right,” a doctrine behind which they basically try to hide their complete moral decay. Anything they think they may use to support their pathetic attitude and choices -like the above example that Bananiot has made, and try in this way to “contaminate” more people with their psychological deceases of demoralism and defeatism, they will try to use it without hesitation, no matter how stupid it may sound in the end.