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I'm not talking about the meetings either. The meetings were even simpler: he went there for debt negotiation with an election mandate to not capitulate and wi
by xfs 7y ago
I'm not talking about the meetings either.
The meetings were even simpler: he went there for debt negotiation with an election mandate to not capitulate and with the most open mind for compromise, and was immediately handed an ultimatum to capitulate, with quote verbatim "elections cannot be allowed to change economic policy."
The crime against logic was what he discovered afterwards.
- mrtksn 7y agoOkay, he could have not capitulated and let the electorate face the music of their decision. It was a referendum among the Greek people about what their government should do. You can't hold a referendum about what other people should give them. The UK got a Brexit referendum and they got out. Nobody would have cared if they held "EU gives as market access but we do not allow Europeans coming over and work referendum" which is what the UK essentially wants.
- xfs 7y agoHe could. He was committed to a Grexit, which he calculated to be substantially better for Greece than what it has now. Then he got immense political pressure and death threats to his family.
- mrtksn 7y agoRight, the eurocrats threatened his family and political pressure is something that no politician should ever go through.
- rumanator 7y ago> He was committed to a Grexit, That was his personal political goal but not Greece's collective goal or will, and he did nothing more than to run political manoevers to try to manipulate Greeks to assume there was a ridiculous conspiracy by the whole world against them.