{"id":5040,"date":"2015-01-30T07:19:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T12:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5040"},"modified":"2015-01-30T07:19:46","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T12:19:46","slug":"how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-syriza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5040","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Solve A Problem Like Syriza?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"posttitle\"><a class=\"entry-title\" title=\"How Do You Solve A Problem Like Syriza?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theautomaticearth.com\/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-syriza\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">How Do You Solve A Problem Like Syriza?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>First off, no, I don\u2019t think Syriza is a problem, I just couldn\u2019t resist the Sound of Music link once it popped into my head, as in \u2018headlines you can sing\u2019. I think Syriza may well be a solution, if it plays its cards right. But that still leaves politicians and investors denominating Tsipras et al as a problem, if not a menace. Now, investors may not need to possess any moral values \u2013 though things would probably have been much better if that were a requirement -, but you can\u2019t say the same for politicians. Politics is supposed to BE about moral values.<\/p>\n<p>And supporting Samaras and his technocrat oligarchy, as has been the EU\/Troika policy, doesn\u2019t exactly show a high moral standard. Not just because trying to influence an election is an no-go aberration (though it\u2019s so common in the EU you\u2019d almost forget that), but certainly also because of what Samaras and the EU have done to the Greek people over the past few years. And neither does it show in what happens now, where the Greeks, steeped in Troika-induced misery as they are, are labeled greedy bastard cheats.<\/p>\n<p>Since the EU lies as much about Greece as it does about Russia, it\u2019s only fitting that the former should speak out for the latter. And it\u2019s deliciously easy: the EU wants to step up sanctions against Russia (because the Ukraine shelled Mariupol?!), but EU sanctions decisions require unanimity. Since Greek-Russian relations have historically been close, Syriza resisting ever tighter sanctions should be no surprise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Do You Solve A Problem Like Syriza? First off, no, I don\u2019t think Syriza is a problem, I just couldn\u2019t resist the Sound of Music link once it popped into my head, as in \u2018headlines you can sing\u2019. I think Syriza may well be a solution, if it plays its cards right. But that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[40,279,284,2236,2868],"class_list":["post-5040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-austerity","tag-eu","tag-european-union","tag-syriza","tag-troika"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5041,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040\/revisions\/5041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}