That is almost a requirement to run for high office.
Pray tell me, can you get more megalomaniac than “VOTE FOR ME! BECAUSE I AM THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN SAVE THIS COUNTRY!” which is, practically and in essense, all the slogans of an election campaign are all about, even for municipality elections.
It is all a matter of being trained to put on an act and hide (like actors 
) or not.
There are very good reasons why a lot of able - yet timid - people do not seem to run for anything, even for local councilors, and this is one of them: Politics demands that you are an extrovert. To reach the higher level you need to have an extreme amount of “I am great” kind of mentality and to reach the highest? Well, you need an “I am the greatest! The saviour that this country (or this party) needs”.
It is almost mandatory to be like that.
On a funny note here there a leaked “behind the scenes”/out-takes from such a campaign ad, from one of our former Prime minister. I won’t put the link to protect our sanity 
The numbers going around for a 2-3 day war are already more than 12 years of war and conflicts in Afganistan:
So, the current claims seem highly unlikely.
We have a specific kind of election here where all the parties involved issue their own results and their own spin on how they, in fact, won.
What better way to train to be a politician, eh?
I hate to say this, but this word is causing a world of trouble.
As long as people think that voters were somehow “manipulated”, instead of understanding that they were offered what they really wanted, there will remain a large disconnect between the two different parts of society/politics there.
If you identify the wrong problem, you get the wrong solution.
If someone gives wine to an alcoholic, the serious problem you need to treat is not “who gave them wine”, but “that they still like wine”. The middleman is irrelevant. The demand is the issue
Back on the previous issue, I am hearing various calls from politicians and analysts saying that EU countries need to rejuvenate their armies and that they grew very lax after the cold war ended (examples are given like The Netherlands selling their tanks and so forth), of course articles and calls for such a thing have been going around for years, but noone really bothered with the idea since the possibility of an actual war seemed highly unlikely to most people:
So, now we hear for calls to buy tanks and aircraft and stuff like that, however, this is like buying chrome alloy rims for your 30 year old car. You are a loooooooooooooong way to having a good car and buying gizmos ain’t going to cut it (initially it is just a publicity stunt for people that do not know better), because you need trained personel, and officers and pilots and artilery experts, and clocking training shots and flights and buying trucks and personel vehicles and stocking fuel and food and creating a supply and communications chain and test that and train them too and and and.
Do you know what this means?
That Greece, apparently, has one of the most battle-ready and well trained armies in Europe. 
I’ve been rolling this thought in my head for the past hours, along with my memories from my service, and I honestly can’t stop giggling like a small kid at the sheer insanity of that thought possibly being true.
This is not Sparta. This is madness
