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Evaggelos Vallianatos paints a bleak yet impassioned portrait of Greece’s demographic collapse, economic subjugation, and geopolitical marginalization. His diagnosis contains many truths. Greece is indeed in a prolonged state of crisis. Its countryside is hollowing out, its young are emigrating in waves, and its political class remains tethered to foreign interests. However, his proposed solution is rooted in wishful thinking, Islamophobia, and nostalgic appeals to a purified Hellenism, mirroring the very ideologies that have historically undermined Greece.

To suggest that the primary threat to Greece is Turkey, and that the response must be to wall off the country from Muslim migrants or to romanticize village life, is to ignore both the global forces behind Greece’s decline and the more........

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