Why
they persist and why now
by system
failure
Latest
negotiations between Greek officials and Troika lenders in Paris
ended without final agreement for the moment, or at least this is the
picture that the mainstream media wanted to pass.
The
hard stance of Troika against Greece, with the IMF playing again the
role of the toughest of all, has two main goals. The first goal is to
allow the government officials to give the impression that they
negotiate and resist against Troika's demands. Some statements are
characteristic:
“Greece’s
international lenders have put the country under pressure to impose
new austerity measures in a bid to resolve an ongoing budget
disagreement, a Greek official says. Negotiator Christos Protopapas,
a former union leader and Socialist labor minister, made the remarks
on Thursday after attending two-day talks in the French capital,
Paris, this week with representatives from the European Commission,
the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund. The
negotiations, however, did not succeed in resolving the standoff. He
added that the creditors are still in conflict with the government in
Athens over deficit projections in the 2015 budget. 'What they're
saying is that they don't believe the budget will work and that we
should follow the well-trodden road of cutting pensions and higher
taxes,' he told private Skai television, adding, 'Our response is
that we won't take new measures that will further burden the average
citizen.'”
It
is not the first time that such a "disorientation operation"
is conducted: “Contrived disagreements between government
officials and representatives of the troika. Are used to persuade the
public that the government resists against some of the troika demands
without saying 'yes to all'”.
(http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2012/10/some-methods-of-disorientation-in-greek.html)
The
second goal of the Troika lenders is to send one more signal to the
Leftist party SYRIZA in Greece, which seems that is taking a steady
first place in all polls, as well as, to other Leftist powers in
Europe which are on rise
(http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2014/11/european-leftist-domino-already-started.html),
that they will not tolerate a different approach or policies other
than those imposed by them for the "successful" completion
of the Greek experiment by the end of 2016, according to the timeline
they have set.
The
time of these messages is not accidental. As we approach closer to
the elections for the President of the Republic in Greece, the
current government will struggle to avoid national elections in case
it will fail to gather the necessary number of 180 MPs required to
elect a new President of the Republic. There are signs that the
systemic establishment will do everything to avoid such a situation:
http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2014/11/breaking-opposition-party-in-greece.html
The
messages to all directions by the European neoliberal economic empire
officials
(http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2014/11/angelas-double-message.html)
are expected to be increased as we approach these crucial
presidential elections in Greece. Their anxiety to make clear that
they will not tolerate different policies other than those of
neoliberal catastrophe, could be explained by the fact that SYRIZA is
not isolated in Europe and this general rise of the European Left is
probably not "manageable", therefore, it could set in
danger the whole plan, which is the expansion of the Greek experiment
throughout Europe. There is a huge battle coming up and no one knows
its ending, but those who will play the most significant role are the
European people themselves.
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