After the recent developments in Greece, we read a lot about the situation from the media, but how much it really pictures the situation there? Is Greece just a corrupt failed country, that struggles to keep its economy in order, or what is happening in Greece today, is a well orchestrated attack, a financial war against our nation, that could spread to the rest of Europe, and the world?
Make no mistake, Greek politics are full of corruption, but one needs to look at the modern history and geographic position of the country to realize how this came into place. Apart from the troubled and violent history of our country, its strategic geopolitical location also played a huge role. Greece has often been caught up in the conflict of interests of the known superpowers of each era, as it lies in an area of huge interest and importance, the Balkans. And it is known that they meddled with our internal affairs and politics. That helped a corrupt elite to be established, many times supported by external factors. The Ottoman and Byzantine remnants are also very crucial, as our political system is inevitably influenced by them. So we are caught in a situation that is being perpetuated and supported by corruption, and global political games.
Greece, while it could be a very rich country as it has huge amount of resources, from natural, like its climate, the fertile earth, the underground wealth and minerals, its landscapes, and a active and educated multilingual youth, combined with its strategic location and links with Europe, the middle East and the former USSR states, it should be an investor’s paradise, a place that anyone would like to work and live. Sadly, it has rather become over the decades a place that is almost ruled by no one and people really think that the country just floats ungoverned like an abandoned ship.
But now we see a new threat to Greece’s sovereignty : the Markets. They have gained so much influence and power, that they threaten whole nations. And Greece, one of the weak links in Europe and the “developed” western world, is just the first test, the first victim. If their attempts succeed in Greece, more countries in Europe will follow. Our governments bow to the bankers and their demands, despite the protest of their people. The tax payers money is being used to bail them out, while they treat countries like companies. There are no nations, no people to them. Each country is a corporation, that they think they can make it go bust or boom for their profit. Gamble with countries and nations, as they do in the stock markets.
In a way, Greece has been targeted by organized terrorism, and it is only to induce fear and submission to the Greek people, so they will bow to and obey the will of what the Markets and the investors demand, according to their interests in the region. They treat differently small and weak countries like Greece, than bigger ones like the UK and USA, despite that financial circumstances in many cases are similar. They just know that a small weak country is easier to break than a large one. So Greece is being dragged into huge repayments that will cripple it’s economy and it’s people for decades to come, so that those people who orchestrate all this will make a profit, not just by the failure of Greece, but also in extend the failure of it’s shared currency the euro, and the whole Euro-zone and Europe.Greece is being caught once again into a financial this time war, just because of it’s currency. In the past enslavement was by war with bullets, bombs and tanks. Now days, enslavement of a nation comes with shares, bonds, and huge loans for bailouts. And Greece is just the beginning. More European nations will follow, and we already see the list of potential targets. Portugal, Spain, Italy and Ireland are already in it.
Greece is forced to seek bailouts from the EU and the IMF, with huge repayments that will have the country bound to the Markets' will for decades to come, and it’s economy always being crippled by the repayments, never being able to recover or grow. Even if the blame lies mainly with the incompetence and mismanagement of the Greek political elite over the decades, in my opinion the same elite was just copying their European counterparts. Most European leaders were following the same policies, inspired by the other side of the Atlantic: Cheap and easy money to spent, and create more money to spent by borrowings and lendings, while this money was ending up mainly in the pockets of some, and in some bank accounts in Switzerland or elsewhere, but surely very few for the benefit of the people. Now it is the people that will pay the price, and will be forced to take cuts, while being dragged into a blame game between public and private sector, creating divisions within them. Divide and rule politics of this new era.
My only wish and hope is the people of Greece and in extend Europe, will start reacting and pushing for reforms and not stand passively, because the effects of this tricky era, will last for years to come, and those effects will be difficult to reverse. You can free yourself from an occupier and an oppressor of your country. But how can you get rid of the huge debts that you are forced into? Slavery though won’t be much different.
