Alexis Tsipras insists that the problems did not arise from government policy but from "mistakes" made under pressure. In his new book "Ithaca," Alexis Tsipras offers an unprecedented look into the inner turmoil of SYRIZA, openly turning on two of his closest and most outspoken associates from his years in power: Pavlos Polakis and Nikos Pappas. Tsipras depicts a party drifting into internal decay, where organized factions increasingly overshadowed collective decision-making and, at times, even overruled the party leader himself. According to his account, these dynamics decisively shaped key choices - and ultimately the fate of the main figures of Greece's first left-wing government. Tsipras acknowledges that Pavlos Polakis was responsible for electoral damage on four separate occasions. He insists that the problems did not arise from government policy but from "mistakes" made under pressure. The most telling example, he writes, was...