D. Koutsoumbas: The attitude of the government involved in the war is immoral and harmful

The secretary general of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece, Dimitris Koutsoumbas, in an interview with r / s ALPHA 989, expressed his concern about the possibility of a generalized war. As he explained, “we are going to this situation, because the monopolies are greedy, the imperialist rivalries and border changes are very big, sovereign rights, redrawing of borders, dissolution of states, revisions and military interventions are not solved only through negotiations.” This is what history and today’s reality say, which, unfortunately, is being experienced very hard by the Ukrainian people, but also by other peoples in other parts of the world. ”

He stressed that for the KKE “the only hope now is the struggle of the peoples. And in Russia, to throw aside Putin and every Putin who represents bourgeois-capitalist interests and to build a new society, socialist, with principles, with values, with visions, with ideals, with prosperity, peace and security for all peoples. here in Greece the government of ND or other parties that have ruled, which represent bourgeois, bourgeois interests, interests of business groups, which are involved in competitions and wars “.

D. Koutsoumbas said that “neither morally nor nationally right, as Mr. Mitsotakis said, is for Greece to send weapons and troops, participating in the war involvement, in these competitions of the imperialist states”.

“We learn that the deployment of troops, soldiers and officers there is being prepared, in addition to Kalashnikovs and in addition to guns, anti-tank weapons, etc.” He added, noting that when asked by the Prime Minister in Parliament whether he immediately intends to send troops in addition to weapons and Kalashnikovs, “Mr. Mitsotakis did not answer either in his deuterology or in his trilogy. that, of course, such a decision is on the table, it remains to be taken definitively and implemented “.

He went on to say that “it is not nationally right, if we consider the national interest of the Greek people and not the selfish interest of a ruling class of the country, an elite that aims to upgrade, to take part in the looting “of other peoples, having in mind its own profits. I mean large business groups, shipping circles, etc. For us, the national interest is the interest of the Greek people.”

“The attitude of the Greek government is both immoral and harmful. The ‘moral’ and the ‘national’ from the point of view of the popular interest is not to choose a camp of robbers, but to support exactly this struggle of the peoples against all robbers,” he stressed. , stating the dangers posed to the people and the country by the involvement of Greece.

Asked to comment on the prime minister’s disgust in yesterday’s interview about “Greece’s very good choice” and that “Erdogan, because of the attitude shown by the West, will change his rhetoric” he said that the government and other bourgeois parties raised the issue. with their involvement in the Russo-Ukrainian war, in this imperialist war and what until recently was said that Erdogan leads to a revision of the Greek-Turkish relations, the borders, the agreements that have been made between various countries here in the region, now go to change them and now only Putin is a reviewer. But Putin, who by the way is an ally of Erdogan at the moment and has good relations with Russia, puts forward ideas, much better than Greece has, as we all know, and of course it leads to this revisionism. “Erdogan is challenging the Lausanne Treaty, he is questioning the formed borders.”

He added that “Erdogan’s ruling is impossible to stop his rhetoric and practice of demanding the demilitarization of the islands, to interpret the Treaty of Lausanne and everything that has been decided in relation to the borders, as he wishes. And of course he uses everything.” these mistakes and the choices more of the Greek governments that agreed on the graying, for example, of islands, areas of the Aegean after Imia, with the Madrid Agreement “.

“It continues to demand demilitarization and we are very afraid that the government is saying this because it is already starting to think of retreating or moving in that direction. It is already legalized, but also officially, things are moving there, but the same will happen in the Aegean with the concession of sovereign rights of the country. “The war in Ukraine and the attitude of the Greek government and the allies of the Greek government, such as the EU and NATO, which in essence supported Turkish foreign policy, supported all these demands,” he stressed.

He also pointed out that the government has not clearly placed itself in the extremely dangerous logic of “NATO territory” which if accepted “then in NATO’s view there will be no maritime borders, there will be no air and we will soon see them challenged – as disputed by the Turkish class – and the mainland “.

D. Koutsoubas stressed that “the Greek people must pursue an autonomous, autonomous, independent policy from all bourgeois plans and from all imperialist plans. It is not his choice to find Greece, not in the West in general, but to participate in imperialist alliances “.

He spoke in support of the US Alliance, but said that maintaining some independence was not the answer. that is, at the helm of Greece, of the country, to really be the Greek people, to be represented and of course to pursue such a policy. relations with other countries “.

We have no interest in fighting and participating in military missions, in going to participate and supporting, sometimes medically, sometimes within quotation “humanitarian”, as cover, in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Syria, in the Sahel of Africa, in “Sub-Saharan Africa, with the agreement we made with the French, is now in Ukraine and so on.” the secretary general of the KKE Central Committee.

Source: AMPE