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War  ·  3421 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Greece signs up to a painful, humiliating agreement with Europe

Saying no to austerity, to say yes to it a few weeks later? I don't get it.





shiranaihito  ·  3415 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Here's the key thing to understand: politicians are a bunch of psychopaths jockeying for personal gain and playing games at the masses' expense. That's pretty much all there is to politics.

Tsipras has been railing against the evil Troika for months on end, had the Greek people vote "NO!" on more bailouts, but suddenly it's alright to make a deal with them? You've noticed politicians lying time and time again, changing their positions like they change their socks, etc.. Well there you go.

We simply can't know what the hell went on behind the scenes during the whole Greek circus, but that doesn't really matter. All we can do is try and improve our personal circumstances in life, like for example the few (ordinary) people who transferred their savings the fuck out of Greece before they closed the banks on the hapless masses.

mk  ·  3421 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't either. I understand from the side of Germany and the IMF, but not from Tsipras's. Unless he knows that this deal is doomed as well, and he is only buying time to build a bridge to a return to the drachma.

rene  ·  3421 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Tsipras never wanted the referendum to succeed in the first place - Syriza mismanaged negotiations, the Germans have been ferociously harsh with the terms of the bailout - this crisis is everyone's fault (some more than others though)