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Also, the whole reason Greek ports are owned by China in the first place is that Germany forced the Greek government to sell them off to the highest bidder as p
by makomk 8y ago
Also, the whole reason Greek ports are owned by China in the first place is that Germany forced the Greek government to sell them off to the highest bidder as part of their great economic fucking-over of Greece. So it's hard to have a huge amount of sympathy if this causes headaches for the core EU states.
- eastendguy 8y ago...or maybe the reason Greece does not have enough money is because rich Greek don't pay their taxes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Greece#Lagarde_list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Greece#Lagarde_l...
- BurningFrog 8y agoGermany only "forced" Greece in the sense that they didn't pay Greece's debts for them.
- coldtea 8y agoAnd in many other ways, starting from the ECU era, but that's too subtle for modern readers...
- sampo 8y ago> Germany only "forced" Greece in the sense that they didn't pay Greece's debts for them. Germany (and France) also knowingly gave Greece lots of loans, when it was obvious to everyone that Greece will never be able to pay them all back.
- BurningFrog 8y agoGermany the country, or private german banks?
- sampo 8y agoGerman banks.