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“This is a Coup” – The Story of How Greece Lost Its Democracy

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Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

This morning, I started watching a mini-documentary on this past year’s Greek saga titled, “This is a Coup,” which I found to be exhilarating, disheartening, infuriating, touching and powerful.

Below you can watch all four parts:

Field of Vision is a filmmaker-driven visual journalism film unit co-created by Laura Poitras, AJ Schnack and Charlotte Cook that pairs filmmakers with developing and ongoing stories around the globe. It is a unit of the Intercept.

 

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Sun, 12/20/2015 - 12:20 | 6945995 knukles
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The Nazi Bilderberger Illuminati NWO, remnants of the Third Reich Won!

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 12:23 | 6946002 nmewn
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Not yet, we're not dead.

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 12:35 | 6946033 WTFUD
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Are you sure 'bout that nmewn 'cause a lot of zombie type creatures pass by me every day, drifting aimlessly on the road to nowhere?

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 12:45 | 6946073 new game
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the new ammo, fiat via debt delivered with a keyboard. pussy asses defeated bya keyboard stroke of created debt and the inherent human weakness of sumtin for nutin, ha . on your knees mutherfucker or i'll stroke my keyboard...

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 12:51 | 6946090 eforce
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Greece voted for more socialism and got shafted, boo fuking hoo.

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 12:56 | 6946102 Stackers
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Have a hard time feeling empathy.

"For the past 5 years, the schools, the hospitals, the families ... destroyed"

Yeah, because you gave the government control of those things with no alternatives other than a failed socialist uptopian system based on spending money you do not and never will have .... moron

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 13:37 | 6946237 Doña K
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This is a lesson for everyone including people, companies and goverments:

LIVE WITHIN YOUR MEANS.

Take loans only when the math makes sense. 

 

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 13:30 | 6946217 tarabel
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Yeah, but they voted for the new and improved free socialism and look what they got instead.

They wuz robbed.

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 13:02 | 6946122 Troy Ounce
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No pity for Greece. They decided en masse to embrace the rape of their souvereignty.

 

Sit, watch & wait....

 

Now suck it up.

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 14:26 | 6946386 ZDRuX
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BULLSHIT. No single "citizen" made the decision for anybody else. The elite at the top (politicians) made the choices for all so don't go around grouping everyone into some fucking communist singularity and saying "they decided en masse" .. the politicians make the rules with the Troika, not the people on the street. Don't group everyone into some communist collectivist hellhole as if they all raised their hand and begged to be part of the EU, none of them had their own voice.

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 12:49 | 6946083 doctor10
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they lost a little more than their democracy. they've been asset-stripped pretty thoroughly

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 13:47 | 6946271 Kirk2NCC1701
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Indeed.  They are so screwed, now that they've been ASSet stRIPPED.

The Globalist Banksters and Oligarchs will not go quietly into the night. At this rate...You may, but they won't.

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 14:59 | 6946508 August
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And Riot Dog has gone - Greece is finished.

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 14:40 | 6946434 MrNosey
Sun, 12/20/2015 - 14:41 | 6946436 Perimetr
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Fuck Tsipras, Fuck the Banksters, Fuck the EU

 

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 15:53 | 6946654 Angel_Eyes
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Sun, 12/20/2015 - 12:22 | 6946000 Seasmoke
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All those wasted votes.  All that wasted time. And nothing ever changed and nothing ever gets better.  

But don't worry here in USA  the Republicans have Paul Ryan who will speak for them and protect them from their concerns. 

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 12:26 | 6946009 nmewn
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Paul Ryan, worthless POS.

And here is the list of "omnibus" Senators to go along with it:

 Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
 Kelly Ayotte (R-NH)
 Barrasso (R-WY)
 Roy Blunt (R-MO)
 Shelley Capito (R-WV)
 Dan Coats (R-IN)
 Thad Cochran (R-MS)
 Susan Collins (R-ME)
 Bob Corker (R-TN)
 John Cornyn (R-TX)
 Cory Gardner (R-CO)
 Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
 Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
 Dean Heller (R-NV)
 Mike Hoeven (R-ND)
 Jim Inhofe (R-OK)
 John Isakson (R-GA)
 Ron Johnson (R-WI)
 Kirk (R-IL)
 Lankford (R-OK)
 Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
 Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
 Perdue (R-GA)
 Roberts (R-KS)
 Mike Rounds (R-SD)
 Thom Tillis (R-NC)
 Roger Wicker (R-MS)

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 12:48 | 6946082 new game
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summed up: the muther fuks vote against the sworn oath to uphold contitution.

think that is reason enuf for______________, hmmm.

answer=treason.

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 12:56 | 6946101 atthelake
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Fair trials, for treason, for oligarchs, politicians, anyone who pays or accepts lobby money, corporation heads and all other traitors.

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 13:05 | 6946115 new game
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merica, the great exceptional fascist nation on the march...

yup, enlist and you too can support an oligarch and keep him or her farting in silk.

oh yea, open those borders too. keeps the profits rising whilst mericans battle for

lowest wage possible as the scramble ensues for all those great jobs zirp created.

 

what a fucking joke..

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 13:06 | 6946124 atthelake
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  • Take back everything the traitors stole.
Sun, 12/20/2015 - 13:06 | 6946134 Normalcy Bias
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Paul Ryan, a 45 year old career politician apparently lives in a mansion. He must be really good at poker or something.

Isn't it strange how often these "Public Servants" with their somewhat modest salaries become so fantastically wealthy? Hmmm...

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/12/17/paul-ryan-builds-border-fence-around-mansion-doesnt-fund-border-fence-omnibus/

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 12:33 | 6946026 GreatUncle
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Basically Greece is so bankrupt.

Choice you either go through the eye of the storm of social turmoil, is do-able but sheeple are to afraid or you can stay as you are while future generations go under debt servitude. It is called passing the buck by those alive today and leaving the inevitable decision for the next generation, or the one after to make... until that inevitable decision is made.

So unless the Greek people say enough is enough and revolt then the position they find themselves in remains indefinitely.

This is what locks them in and everybody else with no way out.

A low real growth world now except through financial manipulations on a grand scale so you are not getting out of this for decades if ever. Extra consumption justifying increasing values will be minimal and central banksters will print the rest. When they print the rest though the ordinary population is not given any of that and have no chance to earn it, you are locked in with supressed wage levels.

So the persecution of ordinary populations will remain until they do revolt.

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 13:44 | 6946265 Doña K
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The fear was that Troika had a lot more ammunition against Greece.

Isolation, boycot, civil war, expulsion from Nato, and more

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 15:09 | 6946528 August
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If you want a vision of the future, imagine $700 brogues stamping on a human face forever.

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 12:33 | 6946027 nocommiesworld
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Greece did not lose its democracy, the greeks sold it for socialism

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 12:41 | 6946061 Jerky Miester
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... and the European Union are the buyers.

 

http://www.euinside.eu/en/news/member-states-close-to-agreement-on-3-bn-...

 

The EU is now in the busisness of shaping world policy even more so that the US.  Maybe it is time for WWIII.

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 13:09 | 6946142 agent default
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If you put something up for sale, especially on the cheap, you are guaranteed to find a buyer. 

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 12:47 | 6946079 nmewn
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Correct, the mericul of spending someone elses money...fully exposed.

At least the Greeks had the foresight to stash their savings under a mattress to avoid the Greek taxman and hasten their collapse into serfdom! ;-)

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 13:04 | 6946128 Lorca's Novena
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* i see what you did there  ;-)

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 13:23 | 6946193 nmewn
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;-)

Well, all nations are going to have to decide what is "proper taxation" and what is not or live with the consequences of fiat debt creation to fund themselves. Naturally, each will have to sort out their needs from their wants.

"Needs" are very different from "wants" by the way. 

Unless of course we're going to rehash the discussion of what money is, which leads us back to why should we work at all if they can just print it up without regard and just give it to us...lol.

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 12:35 | 6946036 JustObserving
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Just as every war is a bankster war, every coup is a bankster coup. 

The banksters won and the people lost.  The free and fair Western media say that Greece is saved - that's Orwellian doublespeak for Greece is fucked for decades

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 12:39 | 6946051 mcbond
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Sun, 12/20/2015 - 12:41 | 6946056 kerfuffled
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Every president that didn't default is complicit.

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 13:51 | 6946283 Kirk2NCC1701
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IBID: Every President who didn't default, is complicit.

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 13:01 | 6946091 atthelake
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Today's debt is fraudulent and odious and should be paid back by the oligarchs, politicians and crooks who incurred the debt. The citizens are not responsible for fraudulent, odious debt. 

Hang bankers and the people they own.

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 15:44 | 6946626 Peter Pan
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Yours statement is populist and contains some truth. However when the socialists in Greece were creating government jobs for useless people and non-existent jobs, the people loved it because of the great pay, little work done and the inability of the government to then sack them.

So while the debt to some degree is odious, the reality is that a fair slice of the population lived in a parasitic relationship with the government whereby the people sold their vote in return for piece of sugar and their children's future.

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 13:06 | 6946131 agent default
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Yeah sure.  You can act like a complete idiot, you can tax and  spend, you can borrow and spend, you can pursue socialist policies on subsidies and then when everybody tells you no more free lunches, it is a coup.  Then you can go vote for a party that insists that you are somehow entitled to a free lunch, and when everybody else tells you no we are not going to pay for it, then OMFG IT IS A COUP!!!111!!.  Get real and in a hurry.  Socialism ends when other peoples money end.

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 15:40 | 6946618 Peter Pan
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It is regrettable that you have been downvoted. The reality is that a string of socialist governments in Greece created a welfare state and welfare expectations far beyond the capacity of the economy. And all went "well" while borrowed money was being burnt in the fireplace.

Unless the Greek mentality changes it will not be enough for them to simply tell their foreign creditors to piss off.

Things will get worse thanks to the sadistic and short sighted economics of the Troika which will in turn destroy all of Europe bit by bit.

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 13:13 | 6946166 TrustbutVerify
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Excessive spending - deficits...astounding debt - is THE WEAPON that is used to bring on statism/socialism/communism.  Things get so bad and the people so unconnected to real and productive work they see the government as their only savior.  

 

Its not just the Greeks...its any country that's in debt and going deeper in debt.  Hello, United States.  The "well intentioned" spending is the weapon.  

Monetary heroin. 

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 13:41 | 6946248 smacker
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Add to that a false War of Terror which adds to people turning towards .gov for security. Add some other things and you have a society which becomes obedient and are begging for more government.

People will hand over their freedom and independence and whatever it takes to "feel" safe. Government out of false duty responds accordingly.

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 13:13 | 6946169 rc_zero
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New subtitle: "How all-powerful government leads to the demise of democracy freedom."

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 13:16 | 6946177 Pumpkin
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Oh, for God's sake.  Have a big party / meeting and kill all those Satanists!  Problem solved.

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 13:31 | 6946219 marts321
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Well this is proof we don't live in a democracy.

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 13:39 | 6946240 jm
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What is the EU to do when a country to which they give multiples rounds of aid first makes promises to agree to the conditions of restructuring, then lies and renegs, then brings in a government dedicated to securing more free crap for the electorate?

 

Apparently they insist that the promises are enforced or the EU provides no further capital. It is not a coup, it is as old as the hills.

 

 

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 15:35 | 6946605 Peter Pan
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The EU would have been far more principled and pragmatic if they did three things:

1. Declare a moratorium on Greek debt

2. Stop giving them more cash (debt)

3. Telling the Greeks that they were now masters of their own fate to show the world that they could manage on their own without more handouts.

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 17:51 | 6946949 jm
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It is not the EU's place to declare a moratorium on the debt. It was alrgely private debt. Why don't you just say they should at like Communists?

The Greeks need the cash.  Without it, they would be in absolute free-fall that would make their current state look like a dream. Varoufakis was such a liar to say otherwise.  He should be tarred and feathered.

The Greeks were masters of their own debt.  Now they must pay the price for it. 

 

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 13:49 | 6946270 Allen_H
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They need to tear that government down in Greece, then place in people to control the country, and kick out all foreign and EU robber barons, this would bring a war, but it is either that or servitude and loss of the country.

Fuck the EssU ! Fuck Brussels ! Fuck your Fiat system !

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 13:59 | 6946308 VWAndy
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More dine and dash economics playing out. Buncha pigs feeding at the wealth of a nation then skipping out leaving the bill for the kids to pick up.

 Hey gramps why not clean up the mess you made? Not that they were the only ones making a mess of everything. But the young will be the ones pickin up the tab.

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 14:16 | 6946358 22winmag
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Another non-binding referendum may help... or not.

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 14:18 | 6946369 Monetas
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Obama is a Coup Coup (silent P) ?  LOL

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 14:34 | 6946413 Joebloinvestor
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Greeks screwed themselves.

Allowing a corrupt government to operate by taking the same attitude sure didn't work out for them.

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 15:09 | 6946527 SharkBit
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If Greece Tragedy were not so sad, it would be a comedy.  Greek Debt shifted from the Rothschild aristocracy to Public Debt.  Nice.  So now Greece in more Debt than ever.  Europe stuck holding crap Greek Debt and BNP, Deutsche Bank, GS and Citis of the world have a nice Christmas whilst the Greeks suck wind.

Is Tsipras a plant in the end?  No doubt he was paid off as were the rest of the Syriza sell-outs.  Next up - Portugal, Spain and Italy.  Democracy is a scam.  Banks rule the world.  Too late.  We are all Debt Serfs.

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 15:20 | 6946556 dogbreath
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99% of the people in those videos seemed to me to be quite well fed

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 15:25 | 6946572 talisman
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How US/Btussels zioBankers treat Athens

How  US/Brussels zioBankers treat Kiev

You compare

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 15:31 | 6946590 Peter Pan
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The treatment may be different but rest assured that Kiev is a far greater hellhole than Athens.

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 15:28 | 6946583 Peter Pan
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The Greeks lost their chance of a quick settlement to their and the world's massive debt problem when Papandreou could have caused a massive collapse at the beginning by refusing to pay/service the debt. The decks would have cleared by now for the whole world.

However instead of staring down the Germans etc both he and his successors gradually slumped to their knees and are now sucking the ###$ of their credotors.

And so the nightmare will continue everywhere and darkness will descend upon us all through bad economics, eilte who are still preoccupied with amassing more wealth, foreign powers which seek to interfere in other people's lands and governments that will become more opporessive as they increase the level of surveillance, taxation and suppression of free speech.

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 15:32 | 6946594 Sir John Bagot Glubb
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You've got to be stupid to honestly believe that Tsipras and Voufakis, both hard core Marxist thugs, were really going to do something in which power inured to the people of Greece versus the government and in fact, the EU, a Central Power.  That would have been antithetical to Marxism by definition.  Marxism is simply a socio-pathic scam to get power over others.  It has no substance, no reality-based economic foundation.  South Americans fall for it over and over and over again.  The Greeks aren't much different.  There almost seems to be a genetically based belief in some people that there is a free lunch and that the wealthy stole their money from those who never had any to begin with.  Life is disenhartening when you go around believing what you want to believe and shirk a belief or assessment of reality.

The first video says Greece's total debt is over $200 BILLION.  I have read in legitimate financial sources that it is really almost $700 BILLION.  A lot of it is hidden.  Can never be paid back and never will.  Because the EU has a stranglehold on Greece, they will never allow it to leave the EU, a trial balloon for World Totalitarian Government.  If they let Greece leave the EU, the Totalitarian World Government dream would be obliterated.

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 17:19 | 6946874 BlussMann
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"Democracy" is a farcial system that insures the control of the government and economy by an oligarchy. The USSA is a good example of this charade. Since the monied control it, Jews ultimately have an inordinate influence, and it (freedom and the economy) really goes downhill.

Fascism and National Socialism strive to uplift and improve the lot of  all the members of the Folk Community and is feared by Marxist, Liberals and the rich.

Greece needs a Golden Dawn government.

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 21:29 | 6947497 HopefulCynic
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They lost a great opporutnity, shure getting booted out of the Euro would have been costly, but they should have prepared, not just bluffed, and that is the fault of the governmetn, the fault of the people is that they did not pressure hard enough regardless if there was a plan or not, now they lost more ground, mor sovereignty and much more time.

 

Scotland is another case os Pussies, but there all the fault is their own, and they had it easy, almost instant admission to the Eurozone, negotiating with England to also keep using the GBP, which was in the interest of Britain, better economical situation, etc..., those were real wusses. 

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 22:50 | 6947678 HenryHall
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It would be nice to know what happened to Tsipras.

He made a promise to default, he got the election mandate from the people, he didn't do it.

Then he put it to the people whether they should default, asked for OXI in the referendum, and got the mandate, the same evening he promised to fulfill the mandate and default. And then later the same evening he changed his mind and fired Varoufakis. WHAT HAPPENED THAT EVENING? Will we ever know?

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 00:30 | 6947883 Assetman
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What happened?

Sometimes the simplest explanation works best.  Varoufakis was willing to risk economic calamity in exchange for not betrying the people... and let that sentiment clearly known in cabinet meeting.  EU finance ministers hated the guy and for good reason... he really didn't give a crap.

Tsipras, on the other hand, wanted to negotiate hard but knew he would never go as far as leaving the Euro.  Betraying the people was secondary to actually getting a good deal done.  Maybe it was the best deal given the circumstances, but in the end it still wasn't a good deal for the Greek people.

In many respects it is true that the Greeks had put this misfortune on themselves. By the time Greece was admitted to full EU membership, it was society heavily reliant on gonverment cheese-- and for a government that was highly corrupt and reluctant to collect taxes from the rich and well connected.

If Syriza was really committed to end austerity and kick the Troika out for good, they should have drawn up detailed plans of reviving the Greek Central Bank and build the infrastrcture to bring back the Drachma-- despite the circumstances.  To me failing to be prepared to call the bluff on EU negotiators is mostly on Varoufakis... and on the economic ministers as well.

In the end, it became appearent that Germany knew Greece would never call their own bluff... and became more hardcore the more the negotiations went on.  It would have been a lot more entertaining for all the Greece followed through on the bluff... and I'm not sure Greece would have been any worse off 5 years from now.

 

 

Sun, 12/20/2015 - 23:16 | 6947717 pasttense
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This is a garbage article. All the Greeks had to do was to leave the Euro.

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