How
the German Finance Minister was threatening Tsipras, and through him
the Spanish Left movement, even before the Greek politician take the
power
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The strategy
of Wolfgang Schäuble, already from September 2014, to force Alexis
Tsipras - then already seemed to be the next prime minister -
surrender to Berlin's logic, is described by the newspaper Vima of
Sunday. But alongside this strategy that unfolded last year, Schäuble
made sure to send to Alexis Tsipras the appropriate warnings of what
to expect when he would undertake tasks.
It all
started in September 2014 when the then prime minister, Antonis
Samaras, requested from Angela Merkel a 'moderate' fifth assessment
that would help the country to get out from the Memorandum and
therefore, New Democracy to remain in power. The German chancellor
did not committed, but didn't also excluded such a possibility. In
practice, however, as mentioned in the report, the final word was
again Schäuble's.
A few days
later, there was a secret meeting of the German Finance Minister with
Poul Thomsen of the IMF, for which the BoG governor, Yannis
Stournaras, was reportedly informed, and, on what has been discussed.
Both were
fully informed and clearly saw the victory of the Left Opposition.
They felt that the days of Samaras-Venizelos coalition were numbered,
and did not believe, not for a moment, the argument of the then Greek
Prime Minister that any concessions in the economic field would
change the course of the political situation, according to the
report.
Schäuble
didn't want to help Samaras, because he didn't want to risk, by no
means, to establish in the center of the eurozone a Leftist
politician, who that time was declaring that his purpose was to alter
the priorities of the economic policy in Europe, abolish austerity,
and change the course the Old Continent towards a Keynesian
direction.
Therefore, a
lenient treatment during the fifth assessment, a repayment of war
reparations to Greece, and, a solution for the Greek national debt,
would make Tsipras, according to Schäuble-Thomsen, almost
unbeatable, and would allow him to run 'like a bull in a china shop'
in the centers of the European politics.
Mr. Schäuble
seemed to prefer to test, as highlighted in the report, the strength
of the Greek system, and mostly, to force Tsipras to move within the
framework of European rules, and more particularly, the economic
policy authorities that had imposed himself in the Eurogroup. He
didn't want in any case a Greek precedent that would encourage
similar moves in Spain, Italy and elsewhere.
Of course,
Schäuble didn't just wait for Tsipras to form a government. He was
already sending various messages to the Leftist politician, like a
threat through the phrase 'they will skin you like hares and wave
your skins to Podemos'! , according to the report.
Source:
The
article, however, does not define who Schäuble meant by saying
"they". It's easy: he meant the oligarchs, his bosses:
fa.ev/poor-mr-schauble
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As we
warned:
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The
mobilization by the global financial mafia this time will be more
intense, as its representatives know that a potential Leftist
government in Greece who may strongly resist against the austerity
policies, could trigger an "uncontrolled" domino rise of
the Leftist powers in Europe, who will fight against the
neoliberal agenda. Make no mistake, the war will be hard. But
there is no alternative. Either the European people will choose to
fight determined and united, or, will be surrendered to the
plutocrats who will bring the new Dark Ages. The "Battle of
Greece" will be decisive ...
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