GRExit

In the last few weeks the new leftist Greek government has been in negotiations over their debt with the EU.

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!