Greece

nation state

Greece  link Sourcewatch Wikiquote
Capital city	Athens
Location	Europe
Leader	Greece/Prime Minister
Type	nation state
"In 2006... the third biggest arms importer after China and India."

Greece is a nation state on the Mediterranean Sea. "The fact that Greece, a relatively small and democratic country with not much in the way of global ambitions, should spend as much on its military as it does is perplexing. In 2006, as the financial crisis was looming, Greece was the third biggest arms importer after China and India."

Deep state

Full article: Greece/Deep state

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From the 1920s to the early 1950s, the arms manufacturer Prodromos Bodosakis-Athanasiadis had the leadership of the country in his pocket.Template:Cn CIA whistleblower Philip Agee wrote in his memoirs that "it seemed the Agency's hands were into everything in" Greece. The country was not only compliant in the COVID-19 event, in 2021 it mandated COVID jabs for those aged 60 and above. Together with Austria, this was something of a high water mark for Covid jab mandation in Europe.

The Integrity Initiative had two Greek Clusters. The leaked document that revealed this introduces the section by reporting that "Greece is an especially sensitive country in which to operate, given its current political and economic challenges."

History

Full article: Ancient Greece

Debt crisis

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Jeff Schechtman wrote in 2017 that "After the world financial crisis of 2007/2008, Greece became the world’s Lehman Brothers."

Justice movement

Full article: Greece/Justice movement

Some Greek citizens have been demanding that the government take their needs into account, rather than the wishes of the financial oligarchs.