Primary reference: An “Eternal Recurrence”: Patterns of German Ideological Hegemony in Modern Greek History.
The more I learn about the last few centuries of German-Greek history, the more it feels like tasking weebs to architect a Japanese state. That’s pretty messed up, particularly because that influence didn’t just stop after the setup, instead one might argue that the demands during the 2008 financial crisis draw upon that, too.
A very important aspect of history for me, besides learning about cultural developments, is avoiding the repetition of past mistakes, even those which aren’t exact repetitions but only rhyme. I try to avoid concerning myself with “historic sins”, as that framing is too baggaged with blind nationalism and retaliation based purely upon heritage and not current behavior is always a very bad idea. Past behavior can still be used to inform policies, but it can’t anchor them.
From a view of retaliation (which usually isn’t productive, except for comedic effect), “flipping the script” and massively increasing Greek influence on German politics would be funny. I would find it funny.
Which makes what’s currently happening quite interesting because I would argue exactly that is currently happening, although it could be better.
Germany is still using Greece as a testing ground and that has to stop. That’s an important goal for me. However, it feels incredibly difficult to pursue. Recent policy coordination’s between Germany and Greece —in my opinion— don’t contain sufficient safeguards.
It would be incredible imo to either prevent or at least partially disrupt fascist developments in Germany from Greece, especially given the past efforts to disrupt past fascist developments in Greece from Germany.
Fascists love to appropriate culture and history, especially those of others, so having the history bite back is always welcome to see.