by Kostas
Vaxevanis
The
creditors endanger European stability, the prestige of the European
Union, their political future and over a trillion euros to not
subside in the Greek proposal, costing several million euros more
than what they would really want? They put at risk all that just to
bring Greeks to senses? Is that at stake? To teach the bloody-Greeks
a lesson? Is there anyone who still believes that for real?
The game at
this moment (to use the expression of Donald Tusk) is no solution and
no agreement that would conceal solution. What happens is the
decision to be done with SYRIZA in power, this bad example in Europe
that can become threatening and launch developments that they do not
want. That can create political storm in the South and doubts about
what’s all about this Europe that is manufactured with so much
diligence by banks and media groups.
What matters
in not whether SYRIZA has the power or the will to rebut the European
pattern they have created, but the likelihood of what happened with
SYRIZA will occur elsewhere, meaning that a party that is a child of
wrath and dispute will come to power.
From the
first moment SYRIZA came to power, they have no solution in their
minds. He who wants a real solution does not provoke a government
that is allergic to unfair steps, requiring for milk and bread to be
taxed by increasing VAT but not the casinos and the slot-machines. He
does not propose the exemption of large income taxes as opposed to
the shameful measures proposed for the majority of citizens. He who
wants to provoke does that.
What is
important is also the way the creditors do that. They let a
negotiation evolve which initially gives hope for a positive
development, and then they pull the rug underneath the feet of
whatever hope has emerged, leaving the Greek side along with the
Greek people hanging over the void, by the emptiness of the outcome.
They do not
negotiate for something they believe. They use whatever psychological
means to exhaust the Greek side in order to make it unreliable and
weak. They let a window of hope appear, they lead Alexis Trispras and
the negotiating group away from their absurdity, they show intent to
find a common ground for understanding so no one loses, and when this
hope is transferred to Greece by leaks and press reports, they
eliminate it by showing a completely different face. They use leaks
and confusion instead of the sincere intention and solution.
No, this is
not a negotiation, it is a plan taken out of the drawers of some
psychologists of the shock doctrine. They create two eventualities.
Either the government to collapse as powerless to handle the
situation and even the personalities of the players-opponents to be
deconstructed, or to be forced to sign a painful agreement that will
de facto lead to it’s fall, after the people’s rage, sooner or
later.
SYRIZA made
a big mistake before the elections that carried on during the
negotiating process. Faced with the need to eliminate the accusation
of anti-Europeanism that systematically and in advance the creditors
and the domestic troika had ascribed to him, he created an axiomatic
pro-Europeanism that ultimately accommodated his apology that he is
with Europe "at all costs". This was not correct either in
political or, much more, in negotiating terms. It was not correct in
political terms because SYRIZA has no reason to bear with a Europe
that has nothing to do with the Europe that they advertise but they
have handed it over to banks and elites. Instead he wants to change
it. It was not correct in negotiating terms because it weakened the
negotiating power, stating to the opponents that they may use any
means since Greece will put up with it in order to remain in Europe.
This way
they maximized the effectiveness of the creditors as well as the fear
of the Greeks who believed that every possibility, which according to
the media placed Greece outside the Eurozone, was a bad version.
SYRIZA sawed
off the branch on which he sat, producing an axiomatic effect for a
rule that more than any other had to be proven first. Namely that
Europe and the creditors were good. Thus entrapping himself in a
European apology while probably the best option was the European
dispute. Especially if he wanted the outcome to be staying in Europe.
So we got to
the point that the creditors play the final card to be done with
SYRIZA, or rather with Tsipras, who is the political figure which
will be either tamed or pushed in the gap that they diligently
created before him. What will he decide?
Alexis
Tsipras must make the decision to stop this game, even if he believes
that he fights the battle as he should fight it. This battle is
molded in a specific framework and cannot break the shell of the
artificial dilemmas that have been created. He must implement what he
mainly believes, that he came from the people for the sole purpose to
serve the people. This is required both by his political morality and
the proper tactics. To remove the rug before they pull it underneath
his feet. Before they deconstruct him and make him appear as an
ineffective, who by his ineffectiveness justifies those who
treacherously passed by and did not make it.
He must
return to Greece and inform the people about what has happened in the
background. About the pressures, the obstacles to trip, the weird
retractions and the intentions he is facing for so many months. It is
required that he tells everything with honesty. He must describe what
Europe is the one he met, and ask the people that support him if they
want it. This is not only democratic substance but also effective
tactic. Transferring the game from the negotiating tactics and the
accounting traps into the field of truth, real economy and politics
is the best solution.
Alexis
Tsipras must come face to face with two things. First that the goal
is the same and not some agreement. And second that he does not
apologize to Schäuble, but to History.
Source:
As a Dutch citizen I regret that Greece is now facing an exit from the Euro zone.
ReplyDeleteHowever, Syriza finally went too far.
After wasting everyone's time for months, throwing tantrums, disregarding deadline after deadline to come up with realistic proposals on how to restart the Greek economy, and starting real negotiations about 8 days before the IMF deadline.
Then Syriza let the creditors learn from the news that it would be holding a referendum, 5 days after the 30 June deadline. With a negative advice.
It could have discussed this with the creditors months ago, but it didn't. It could have asked the creditors two weeks ago for one week's respite, but it didn't.
Well ... enough is enough.
Syriza can hold all the referenda its wants. It can consult the Delphi oracle too if it likes, but the default won't wait for them this time.
It is very pathetic to make such a statement without having any clue of what happen during the 5 months "stand off" to Greece.
ReplyDeleteHere is the speech of Mr.Varoufakis, to his colleagues on the last Eurogroup, 27th of June and why their "generous offer" were rejected it.
http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2015/06/28/as-it-happened-yanis-varoufakis-intervention-during-the-27th-june-2015-eurogroup-meeting/#more-8149