The Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, has been appealing in countless articles and TV interviews to the common sense and rationality of the EU, hoping that they'd understand Greece's, and their own awful predicament. But his time is wasted on such exercises.
Below are thoughts, mine and others', which cut to the bone of what Greece is facing, and what it must ultimately do.
"The EU is controlled by finance capital. These monsters
don't care about eloquent words or reason. They want their money back, with
interest. They want to get it in the easiest and quickest way, by making people
suffer. There is no appealing to these freaks common sense. They simply don't
care. Every second in the EU is a second wasted for Greece. Get out of it and
start your recovery. In the long run it's the best option."
--Comment posted by myself on ICH
"Varoufakis will learn, if he has not done so already, that
the troika are not his "partners" but his masters. They couldn't give
a damn whether Greeks prosper or they don't. What is important to them is that Greece
owes and is a servant of the ECB. It is also essential that Greece is docile
and accepts without a whimper whatever austerity medicine Merkel & Co
dispense."
--Comment posted by newsens on ICH
"The troika doesn't care about the best interests of Europe.
The political actors represent the moneyed elite, particularly the bankers
& hedge funders, & particularly their imperial superiors, the policy
makers in the USA. Europe's & the world's interests are probably the exact
opposite of theirs. This gov't has a choice of caving, returning to the
drachma, &/or strengthening its alliance w/ the BRICS, particularly Russia,
& China, or confiscating the unpaid taxes & property of the Greek
oligarchs (which would just about cover their debt), & nationalizing
everything that can be nationalized. They should also get out of NATO, but that
would create too much opposition. YV is being disingenuous when he says that he
wants to avoid playing power politics & get the troika to think in terms of
pan-European welfare. These parties are immune to persuasive rhetoric; golden
tongues are for the masses, the owners only want real gold."
--Comment posted by americatemychildren on ICH
This is a simple sketch I drew which illustrates how things really are between Greece and the EU
'Nuff said!
