Greece’s
gross debts add up to around $320 billion in nominal value, according
to the International Monetary Fund. That’s big compared to the
Greek economy, but tiny compared to the world outside. It’s less
than 3% of the entire eurozone economy, which is about $13.5
trillion. So even if Greece refused to pay one more nickel of its
debts — an outcome no one is suggesting — the eurozone could make
up the difference with about eight days’ output ... or an
hour’s money-printing by the ECB.
The Jimmy Dore Show Colonel Douglas Macgregor explains that as a result of recent military conflicts, Russia, China, and Iran have become allies, and that Beijing and Moscow have concluded that "if we let Iran fail, we're next on the menu" from what he describes as a "rogue state led by a rogue personality," meaning they will intervene to prevent Iran's collapse if the US threatens it. He tells Jimmy Dore that Putin called Trump for an hour and a half to make it clear that a military campaign in Iran would not succeed and would make the situation much worse, offering to store Iran's enriched uranium as a diplomatic gesture. Macgregor warns that if the US restarts the war, China could send 40 or 50 surface combatants and submarines to the Indian Ocean, and Russia could fly MiG-31s into Iranian airspace — not to provoke a direct confrontation but to "make a point." He concludes that the British Empire overreached and overextended with World War...
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