{"id":5496,"date":"2015-02-09T15:48:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T20:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5496"},"modified":"2015-02-09T15:48:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T20:48:27","slug":"behind-the-global-game-of-thrones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5496","title":{"rendered":"Behind The Global \u2013 Game Of \u2013 Thrones"},"content":{"rendered":"

Behind The Global \u2013 Game Of \u2013 Thrones<\/a><\/h3>\n

Greek PM Alexis Tsipras yesterday laid out Syriza\u2019s stance, and from what I saw he didn\u2019t pull even one punch. Despite all the suggestions from the financial press throughout the past week that Tsipras and Varoufakis reneged on campaign promises to seek debt write-downs, they didn\u2019t, and never have \u2013 other than perhaps in semantics.<\/p>\n

Which I don\u2019t find the slightest bit surprising. I would have been very surprised if they had. The misinterpretation, and the faulty expectations, are easily explained through the fact that \u2013 most of \u2013 these guys are not politicians, which they very deliberately expressed in the way they dressed for their meetings with \u2018Europe\u2019s finest\u2019.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t see the \u2018space\u2019 career politicians see to negotiate away the mandate their voters have given them. For them it\u2019s simple: we were elected on our program \u2013 which in this case happens to be to end the misery forced upon Greece by the European and Troika schemes -, and we\u2019re not going to move away from that just because \u2018the other side\u2019 starts threatening us, or (a crucial difference in politics) because our voters may not vote for us again in a next election.<\/p>\n

In their view, trying to scare Greece into even more submission, which is the overlying message emanating from Brussels and beyond, is entirely null and void because Greece can\u2019t \u2013 and shouldn\u2019t \u2013 sink any lower than it has. Very and refreshingly simple. No surprise there, but, at least on my part, just support and admiration. Syriza is fighting the fight many others don\u2019t have the intellect, the chutzpah and\/or the courage for.<\/p>\n

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Behind The Global \u2013 Game Of \u2013 Thrones Greek PM Alexis Tsipras yesterday laid out Syriza\u2019s stance, and from what I saw he didn\u2019t pull even one punch. Despite all the suggestions from the financial press throughout the past week that Tsipras and Varoufakis reneged on campaign promises to seek debt write-downs, they didn\u2019t, and […]<\/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":[2,5],"tags":[2872,2467,279,281,2246,284,1167,2236,2868,2921],"class_list":["post-5496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-alexis-tsipras","tag-emu","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european-monetary-union","tag-european-union","tag-greece","tag-syriza","tag-troika","tag-yanis-varoufakis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496","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=5496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5497,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496\/revisions\/5497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}