The chronicle of the unimaginable hoax
The Prime Minister’s National Security Advisor, Thanos Dokos, had a video conference with the Russian pranksters Vovan & Lexus. They were introduced to him as alleged advisors to Volodymyr Zelensky and a discussion began that included – among other things – a discussion of the elections and the incident with the Ukrainian drone off Lefkada.
The video of the video conference was published on the Rumble platform under the title “Prank with the National Security Advisor of Greece, Thanos Dokos”. During the conversation, the two pranksters appear to warn Thanos Dokos about the possibility of a repeat incident with a drone …
This is Mitsotakis’ National Security Advisor. Imagine if they were not Russian pranksters and they were Turkish hackers, what could have happened. The Mitsotakis government, instead of having already removed Thanos Dokos, continues to make fun of him, only now it is no longer convincing even the voters of ND. Scandals are not enough, they effortlessly and confidentially reveal confidential information about the country to anyone who sends a simple email.
Maximos’ justifications for the prank on Dokos: Other European officials have also been targeted
The first government reaction to the video with Thanos Dokos came through leaks, with circles from Maximos even commenting that… “similar attacks have been carried out in the past on high-ranking European officials.”
The prime minister’s national security advisor had a video conference with two well-known Russian pranksters, who pretended to be Zelensky’s advisors, posting the relevant conversation on video.
Maximou described the incident as a “hybrid attack with penetration of security protocols, through the use of extremely advanced Artificial Intelligence technology”, adding that there was “no leak of confidential or secret information during the conversation”.
Technology possesses neither morality nor ideology. It is merely a tool whose value depends entirely on those who wield it. The defining battle of the future will not be fought solely over economics or geopolitics, but over the credibility of information itself. As artificial intelligence, cybercrime and digital forgery continue to advance, societies will increasingly depend on institutions, journalism and citizens capable of distinguishing truth from fabrication. Freedom is threatened not only by censorship, but equally by the overwhelming flood of deception.
This man, Kostakis Vaxevanis, is the very embodiment of Goebbels-style disinformation. Raptis, Portosalte, Akrita or Pappas are hardly in the same league.
He is the Sherlock Holmes of Pulitzer-style scandal hunting—“slashing and stabbing everything in sight,” as the saying goes. The “Nikolouli” of political scandals, specializing in anything connected to Mitsotakis. A fierce anti-Turkish crusader as well: heaven forbid the Turks should obtain our secrets, while the Russians, apparently, are somehow “our own” and therefore pose no concern. Such is the dark nationalism of Greece’s synthetic Left, wrapped in obsessive paranoia and marketed as “Documento” journalism.
Every day we open the website’s email inbox, and what we find is beyond belief. Hacking attempts, forged sender identities, manipulated email content, deleted files and documents—every imaginable form of digital sabotage. It takes at least an hour simply to separate genuine correspondence from fabricated material. Not to mention the repeated cyberattacks that destroyed half of our archives, or the endless appointments arranged with fake “whistleblowers” who never appeared to deliver the supposedly “explosive evidence.”
None of this is unprecedented. It is a well-known and fully understood phenomenon in the digital age. Even American cabinet officials have been deceived into speaking with individuals impersonated by hackers linked to Vladimir Putin. Yet in no country possessing even a minimum level of political maturity has anyone demanded the resignation of the victim simply because they were deceived. Greece, of course, remains the exception, excelling in partisan blindness and descending into the abyss of Goebbels-style propaganda.
The threat posed by hackers and their counterfeit products is among the gravest challenges of our time—and it will soon become the world’s number one problem. Governments will fall because of fabricated scandals. Decent and honorable people will be publicly disgraced or even imprisoned on the basis of forged evidence. Families and relationships will collapse. Wealth, bank deposits and financial assets will change hands in moments. Counterfeit currencies will become increasingly difficult to detect. Forged identity cards, passports, driver’s licenses, certificates and official documents for judicial, medical, administrative or social purposes will be produced on an industrial scale.
A new era is emerging—an era of astonishing technological achievements beyond anything previous generations could have imagined. As Homo sapiens gradually gives way to the Meta-Human, future generations will witness extraordinary technological miracles.
Yet hell will accompany every stage and every expression of that future.
Technology has always carried both a blessing and a curse. The excitement of innovation, the convenience it offers and, above all, the pursuit of profit have consistently taken precedence over safety, ethics and respect for human life and fundamental rights.
Take commercial aviation as a simple example. It would not be technically impossible to design passenger aircraft so that, in the event of catastrophic failure, the passenger cabin could separate from the cockpit and the rest of the aircraft and descend safely using powerful parachute systems, instead of passengers perishing together with the wreckage. Fighter pilots have long been able to save themselves through ejection seats.
Why, then, is such investment not made for ordinary airline passengers?
Because, as the famous Greek cinematic line goes, “There is too much money involved, Aris.” Apparently, not when it comes to satisfying the vanity and recklessness of leaders such as Putin or Trump.