Civilizational kinship with Russia is pulling Greece from the Western alliance

Evidence

In the post-Cold War world, Greece’s policies have increasingly deviated from those of the West. Its blockade of Macedonia was strenuously opposed by Western governments and resulted in the European Commission seeking an injunction against Greece in the European Court of Justice. With respect to the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, Greece separated itself from the policies pursued by the principal Western powers, actively supported the Serbs, and blatantly violated the U.N. sanctions levied against them. With the end of the Soviet Union and the communist threat, Greece has mutual interests with Russia in opposition to their common enemy, Turkey. … The Cold War antagonist of the Soviet Union is evolving into the post-Cold War ally of Russia. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 441

Categorization

• XREF: Predicts the pattern later seen with Greece’s 2010-15 Russian entanglement and energy pipelines; connects to Huntington’s core thesis that Orthodox civilization aligns against the West. — connects to: Russian oligarchs weaponize pro-family messaging to destabilize Western alliances — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 1058
• QUESTION: Is there any dataset tracking how much Greek-Russian cooperation grew after 1995 versus what Huntington predicted?