Leo Caesius
Banned
You're neglecting to mention that they invaded Turkey with the intention of taking Ankara and the whole country (rather than merely the claims given to them at Sèvres) while the Turks were in the grips of a civil war and simultaneously fighting wars against Armenia and France. I'm not sure any of the Western powers could have afforded to provide any more support than they were already giving. Everything was already decisively in favor of the Greeks, and they still blew it.Well that's what actually happened after ww1. Greece was given large parts of the Western coast of Anatolia and future prospects of getting Constantinople. But without sufficient Western armed support they were decisively defeated by the Turks. And even if they had gotten armed support and had defeated the Turkish nationalist movement, some time in the future it would probably still be lost for many many reasons.
The Megali Idea was absurd really... and history has been really good to the modern Greek state, it got a lot more than it deserved territorially imho...