Life and Debt: A Greek Tragedy (merged)

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by VipertheSniper

Oh come on Skybird, don't you remember that disgusting campaign by the "Bild". That was rude and uncalled for. I think the Greeks know full well, that they share responsibility in this mess.

Indeed. But they started first - months ahead. First they wanted Nazi gold. Then they started to campaign that Germany was conquering all Europe, and finally they compared Merkel to Hitler and Schäuble became the wickiest human being ever having lived on this planet.

And then Bild struck back, and others joined in.

Wie man in den Wald hineinbrüllt, so schallt es halt wieder heraus.

Again, my anger over some Greeks is not because their economy is in shatters. It is anger about a certain attitude that always accuses the others, and if the others do not easily will to bail them out endlessly, then criminalising them and offending them. Greece plays the self-victimization card, and its political elite obviously plans to play it time and time and time again. Another issue I have with Greece, that the parties have still not learned what the hour is by now, and still play their conspiratory games for power, knopwing that Germany has self-committed itself to bail out the Euro-Union endlessly (Merkels own verdict), by this giving a hilarious ammount of power and options for blackmailing to the southern states.

The debtor is the stronger the higher the potential write-offs are for the creditor. At some point, the balance tips over, and the debtor is stronger and can demand more than the creditor.