“They care not for the best wishes of the Greek people, but simply for sustaining the economic madhouse they themselves have created.”
So the Greeks don’t really play into what’s happening? They would not be in trouble if they had been paying their bills? I get it that the EU is a piece of crap, but the Greeks didn’t have to borrow the money.
They (EU, Greek gov’t) both lied to get Greece into the EU
Do you really think that even a sizable minority of Greeks were aware that one of their previous governments conspired with Goldman-Sachs to hide the true state of the Greek economy so that Greece could join the euro? When Greece was borrowing money in drachmas and offering to repay in drachmas, their profligate ways caused no trouble. It is only because their Europhile politicians bought into the political project of the E.U. (oh, joy, open borders, multiculturalism, trampling on the Christian heritage of Europe, all for a mess of pottage in the form of a fiat currency controlled not from Athens, but Berlin and Brussels).
With already unsustainable debt, they then had more loaded onto them five years ago during the last crisis by the IMF betraying its mandate and serving the interests for French and German bankers, rather than doing what they were created to do, stabilizing weak national economies through debt relief combined with mandated reforms (Greece got mandated reforms and more debt rather than debt relief because Dominique Strauss-Kahn didn’t do his job — too busy screwing, well various and sundry, but among those he screwed was Greece.)