User blog comment:Red VS Blue/Aragon in Fidei Defensor/@comment-811633-20100904164543

Sorry it's taken me so long to reply; school, rowing, and being a cantor drain all free time ;).

There's one curious thing I forgot to mention about the Greek Revolution-it was either an all-or-nothing thing and what happened was a bust, really. What I mean is that there was no (well, virtually no) Greek Nationalism prior to the Revolution-the war in the Peloponneso started because of taxes. All of the Greeks wanted a recreation of the Byzantine Empire with the capital and nothing less; thus they would prefer being part of the Ottoman Empire as opposed to a tiny state which only includes about half of the Greek population. So, I suppose the Greek Revolution might have to happen later instead of earlier.

But I suppose that all support would be secret. Britain might support Greece to get the Levant Company (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levant_Company) more sway in the newly formed society. France might secrelty support the Greeks because they too think they can get more sway in the new reformed-Byzantium than in the Ottoman Empire, plus they might be angry at the Ottomans for the Franco-Ottoman split and thus might see this as a way to screw over their allies-turned-enemies. Your way is also perfect, too, especially since all this support is secret so the French won't know the revolutionaries are getting support from Britain! Russia would also want suzerainty in the Balkans, Black Sea, and Steppe areas as well as get Orthodoxy more prominence and screw over Islam and might actually support Greece/neo-Eastern Rome openly. So, when's a good time Britain, France, and Russia will have the extra-money enough to help the Revolt? Not for a long while I presume. Perhaps if there's no Napoleon or Napoleonic-doppleganger the early 1800s (okay so barely earlier) might be the perfect time to do it. There's also the large Turkish population of the land that Greece will inhabit (more so East Thrace and Anatolia); expulsion and genocide might be the only way to establish Greek-rule in the newly conquered land. But hey, all of the refugees can go to Aragon they want and mingle with the already established Muslims of Aragon, or just head to the Ottoman Empire. I'd like to get help from Aragon, but because this Aragon is a pretty tolerant-state and has a large Muslim minority (bit of an oxymoron, no? :D) they definitely won't support Greece (in fact they might help the Ottomans)-perhaps Castile or Portugal could help "save the day" as it were.