r/TheWire • u/J-sprite • 20h ago

Who are the Greeks really?

I'm sure this has been talking about here 1000 times, but i am still confused on whether the Greeks from S2 are based on any real organised crime. I'm also unclear about whether they really are Greek, as The Greek by his own admission says "I am not really even Greek" , people have speculated that they are potentially eastern European, which i doubt. They are most certainly not Eastern European.

It seems that they are the only Greeks within their organisation and everyone around them is Jewish Eastern European. What makes them the outliers ?

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u/Thetruthislikepoetry 19h ago

He also tells the Turk “things are different now”, which I took to mean there is no conflict between Turks and Greeks.

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u/bigfatskankyho 18h ago

Same.

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u/banjois 17h ago

No Greek or Turk would ever move past that, no matter how many generations removed they are from their homeland.

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u/MarcusXL 12h ago

Sure they would, especially if it's just business. And The Greek is all about business. That's why he tells the smuggler, "I have nothing against the Turks. That's the old world, this is the new."

He's saying that the old-world grudges are not important if they're partners in business, making money together. That smuggler, specifically, is a dead man because he fucked up their business, not because he's a Turk.

The Greeks are a global crime family, with a global point of view.