Greater Greece after World War I

Markus

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So, how realistic is this scenario:
http://www.avalanchepress.com/MonkeyBite.php

I'm guessing some are far less than others (like Crimea being included).

Not much remembering past discussions. Ionian Greece was indefensible without the muslim hinterland. Take it -if that is even possible- and you need to do big time ethnic cleansing and are still cut off from your old economic base.

Taking and keeping Thrace is realistic. I´d also try to liberate Constantinople from Ottoman occupation.
 
I think a problem with the board sometimes regarding this question is that they associate "Can there be a greater Greece after WWI?", with, "A Greater Greece after WWI (or ever) is a bad thing."

Yes all the Greco-wanks are now discredited and we all recognize that Greater Greece isn't something we want. But. Theoretically with a lot of foreign support and some luke there could have been a Greater Greece. Genocide and ethnic cleansing aside.
 

Nietzsche

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I think a problem with the board sometimes regarding this question is that they associate "Can there be a greater Greece after WWI?", with, "A Greater Greece after WWI (or ever) is a bad thing."

Yes all the Greco-wanks are now discredited and we all recognize that Greater Greece isn't something we want. But. Theoretically with a lot of foreign support and some luke there could have been a Greater Greece. Genocide and ethnic cleansing aside.
The problem is that it wouldn't really be a Greater Greece. It'd be "Greece extended to the point that it relies entirely on foreign armies to sustain its borders".
 
The problem is that it wouldn't really be a Greater Greece. It'd be "Greece extended to the point that it relies entirely on foreign armies to sustain its borders".

They would think of themselves as such and I think the thread is referring to a much larger Greece regardless of how it happened.
 
Oi, yhis again.

Thrace, doable.

Straits, doable with luck and gebnerous foreign aid.

Greater Greece, possible but less likely than a viable Ottoman Empire. And even if you get it the maitanace would requiree Greece practically becoming a junior partner with the amount of foriign aid needed.
 
No possibility of the foreign aid on anything resembling the scale needed, Italy will not yield the Dodecanese nor allow seizure of Northern Epirus as Albania was Italy's bambino, the UK will not yield Cyprus, the Crimea goes beyond ASB territory into outright insanity and Greece tried for Eastern Thrace and Ionian Greece and got curb stomped.
 

archaeogeek

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ASB, half the population of Greece would be turkish and bulgarian if it took over Thrace: expect uprisings and the eventual destruction of the already weak greek state.
 
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