And the offer is: Nothing and worse | 33 comments (33 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

AEP - Europe is blowing itself apart over Greece - and nobody seems able to stop it

He called the snap vote with the expectation - and intention - of losing it. The plan was to put up a good fight, accept honourable defeat, and hand over the keys of the Maximos Mansion, leaving it to others to implement the June 25 "ultimatum" and suffer the opprobrium.
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So Syriza called the referendum. To their consternation, they won, igniting the great Greek revolt of 2015, the moment when the people finally issued a primal scream, daubed their war paint, and formed the hoplite phalanx.
Mr Tsipras is now trapped by his success. "The referendum has its own dynamic. People will revolt if he comes back from Brussels with a shoddy compromise," said Costas Lapavitsas, a Syriza MP.

Anyone care to comment?

by cagatacos on Tue Jul 7th, 2015 at 05:08:06 PM EST

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A bizarre view.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Jul 7th, 2015 at 05:21:17 PM EST
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I mean, it takes either a conspiracy theory or gleeful ignorance of actual details to dismiss the fact that Tsipras personally campaigned quite hard to win the referendum.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Jul 7th, 2015 at 05:27:19 PM EST
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It's not so much bizarre as a delusion of grandeur. I read it as AEP daring Tsipras to resist. It's all about rubbernecking and joy in the smashup, as though Tsipras is thinking about AEP's opinion right now.

by Upstate NY on Tue Jul 7th, 2015 at 08:12:35 PM EST
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And the Telecrap regresses to the mean.

by rifek on Tue Jul 7th, 2015 at 07:27:26 PM EST
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Considerably more speculative, less fact-based, than AEP's usual contributions.

I used to be afew. I'm still not many.

by john_evans (john(dot)evans(dot)et(at)gmail(dot)com) on Wed Jul 8th, 2015 at 12:59:48 AM EST
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He's starting to sound like a communist. Here is the World Socialist Web Site, a few days ago.

Syriza's referendum maneuver, a barely disguised attempt to engineer a vote of no-confidence in its own government, exploded in its face. Tsipras and company were as stunned by the "no" vote as Merkel. Their negotiators headed as fast as they could for Brussels. Varoufakis and Syriza spokesman Gabriel Sakellaridis predicted that a deal for a new financial aid package in exchange for further austerity measures could be reached in 24 to 48 hours.

by gk (gk (gk quattro due due sette @gmail.com)) on Wed Jul 8th, 2015 at 01:06:45 AM EST
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