The whole debate about Greece is about bankers, creditors, payments, tax and budgets. It shows how warped our world is.<\/p>\n
Greece is a country facing collapse.<\/p>\n
It's had a deeply undesirable a totalitarian regime in my lifetime.<\/p>\n
It is located in one of the traditional crucibles for conflict.<\/p>\n
It has a powerful fascist element that is violent.<\/p>\n
It is on a crucial border of Europe.<\/p>\n
It is impoverished and broke and the future of its government is at risk: like it or not there is no viable elected alternative to Syriza; the rest of the political spectrum is too corrupt to contemplate holding lower.<\/p>\n
And despite all that the combined powers of Europe want to break it for the sake of their banks, a few euro that make no overall difference in the grand scheme of things, and because they'd rather....<\/p>\n
That's when you ask 'rather what'?<\/p>\n
A military takeover?<\/p>\n
Civil war?<\/p>\n
The rise of fascism?<\/p>\n
An open embrace of Russia?<\/p>\n
Contagion without obvious limits?<\/p>\n
Have these EU countries taken leave of their senses? Just let their foreign ministers get a word in edgeways for a moment. Greece is a state that should in any rational foreign policy debate demand subsidy, support and aid to make sure it stayed on side.<\/p>\n
Instead we're kicking it hard and down.<\/p>\n
The insanity is very, very hard to fathom.<\/p>\n
Unless you have a bankers' mentality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"