This isn’t about standing up for their convictions.
What do you imagine the Greeks want? They don’t want to be out of the Eurozone. They don’t want to be out of the European Union.
What convictions?
The only thing the Greeks want is not to have their pensions cut even though they have borrowed billions of dollars and refused to cut spending.
What tyranny are they wanting to break free from except the shackles of reality?
Like I said ... politics aside.
They did what they said they would do. I admire that.
The analysis of how they got there and where they are going is a different discussion.
“The only thing the Greeks want is not to have their pensions cut even though they have borrowed billions of dollars and refused to cut spending.”
As the Greek economy dies, they reject forced austerity to increase their suffering. I don’t know of any people that want heavy taxation and austerity imposed from a foreign government - particularly one not elected, but appointed.
Their path will be difficult. It will be better than the path the EU insist upon, which is about repayment and not progress.
Absolutely. Anyone who sees any heroics in the Greek actions is living out a drama inside their own head.
Out in the real world, the Greeks are trying to coerce more payments from more working people in the rest of Europe. The only thing the Greeks lack to make their "revolution" perfect is eubonics.