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Here's a quick translation: (El Mundo) Even though there are no polls, what you feel in Athen's streets is that people is more scared every day. (Varoufakis)
by kilburn 11y ago
Here's a quick translation:
(El Mundo) Even though there are no polls, what you feel in Athen's streets is that people is more scared every day.
(Varoufakis) Yes, that's it. What they are doing to Greece has a name: terrorism.
(El Mundo) Do you really think that what they are doing to Greece is terrorism?
(Varoufakis) Of course I think so: it is terrorism. Why did they force us to close our banks? (They did so) To instill fear into people. And when the objective is to spread terror, that phenomenon is called terrorism. But I have faith in that fear won't win.
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My personal stance is that he did indeed call their counterparties terrorists. However, he carefully distinguished them from "violent terriorists" such as ISIS et al. Which kind of terrorists are actually more harmful in the long run... that's a matter for personal opinion.
- digi_owl 11y agoA couple of other terms that could have been used was "spreading FUD" and racketeering (nice nation you have there, would be sad to see anything bad happen to it...). But the guy have a penchant for not mincing words...