{"id":6581,"date":"2015-03-17T18:09:59","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T23:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6581"},"modified":"2015-03-17T18:09:59","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T23:09:59","slug":"greek-pm-to-meet-with-putin-amid-cash-crunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6581","title":{"rendered":"Greek PM To Meet With Putin Amid Cash Crunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-03-17\/greek-pm-meet-putin-amid-cash-crunch\" target=\"_blank\">Greek PM To Meet With Putin Amid Cash Crunch<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>With Greece\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-03-17\/greece-faces-cash-crunch-friday-without-plan-or-plan-b-what-happens-next\">digging around<\/a>\u00a0in the couch cushions to try and scrape up \u20ac2 billion by Friday in order to make payments to the IMF, the ECB, and Goldman, and with celebrity FinMin Yanis Varoufakis doing his absolute best to sink the entire ship with a series of epic PR faux pas,\u00a0<strong>one is left to wonder just where Athens will turn when Berlin and Brussels finally reach the end of their ropes with what increasingly looks like gross incompetence in the Aegean.<\/strong>\u00a0We may have gotten the answer to that question today via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ca.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idCAKBN0MD11920150317\">Reuters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><strong><em>Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will visit Moscow on April 8 after being invited to talks by Russian President Vladimir Putin, a Greek government official said on Tuesday.<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<p><em>Greece&#8217;s government has previously said Putin had invited Tsipras to visit Moscow on May 9 and it was not immediately clear if that trip had been changed. It would be Tsipras&#8217;s first official visit to Moscow since being elected in January.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There you have it.\u00a0<strong>As Syriza faces the unenviable proposition of either completely giving up on its campaign promises or plunging the Greek economy and banking system into a drachma death spiral, it appears as though Athens is playing the one card it has left, which is threatening to effectively surrender itself to the Kremlin.<\/strong>\u00a0As Reuters notes, this wouldn\u2019t be the first time Greece has (maybe) inadvertently created speculation around the possibility that Moscow could end up being the White (or Red) Knight:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greek PM To Meet With Putin Amid Cash Crunch With Greece\u00a0digging around\u00a0in the couch cushions to try and scrape up \u20ac2 billion by Friday in order to make payments to the IMF, the ECB, and Goldman, and with celebrity FinMin Yanis Varoufakis doing his absolute best to sink the entire ship with a series of [&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":[2,5],"tags":[2872,1167,694,857],"class_list":["post-6581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-alexis-tsipras","tag-greece","tag-russia","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6581","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=6581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6582,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6581\/revisions\/6582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}