{"id":7055,"date":"2015-04-03T07:12:51","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T12:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7055"},"modified":"2015-04-03T07:12:51","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T12:12:51","slug":"is-greece-about-to-play-its-geopolitical-trump-card-and-ignite-a-chain-reaction-across-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7055","title":{"rendered":"Is Greece About to Play its Geopolitical Trump Card and Ignite a Chain Reaction Across Europe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2015\/04\/02\/is-greece-about-to-play-its-geopolitical-trump-card-and-ignite-a-chain-reaction-across-europe\/\" target=\"_blank\">Is Greece About to Play its Geopolitical Trump Card and Ignite a Chain Reaction Across Europe?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>If the EMU powers persist mechanically with their stale demands \u2013 even reverting to terms that the previous pro-EMU government in Athens rejected in December \u2013 they risk setting off a political chain-reaction that can only eviscerate the EU Project as a motivating ideology in Europe.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Forced Grexit would entrench a pervasive suspicion that EU bodies are ultimately agents of creditor enforcement. It would expose the Project\u2019s post-war creed of solidarity as so much humbug.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Greece could not plausibly remain in Nato if ejected from EMU in acrimonious circumstances. It would drift into the Russian orbit, where Hungary\u2019s Viktor Orban already lies. The southeastern flank of Europe\u2019s security system would fall apart.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Mr Tsipras is now playing the Russian card with an icy ruthlessness, more or less threatening to veto fresh EU measures against the Kremlin as the old set expires. \u201cWe disagree with sanctions. The new European security architecture must include Russia,\u201d he told the TASS news agency.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>He offered to turn Greece into a strategic bridge, linking the two Orthodox nations. \u201cRussian-Greek relations have very deep roots in history,\u201d he said, hitting all the right notes before his trip to Moscow next week.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 From Ambrose Evans Pritchard\u2019s article in the Telegraph:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/comment\/ambroseevans_pritchard\/11510384\/Greek-defiance-mounts-as-Alexis-Tsipras-turns-to-Russia-and-China.html?utm_content=13809357&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter\">Greek Defiance Mounts as Alexis Tsipras Turns to Russia and China<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past couple of months, I\u2019ve at times\u00a0been a strong critic of Greek leadership\u2019s seeming unwillingness to demonstrate the courage necessary to flip the bird to EU bureaucrats and usher in paradigm level change for the long suffering nation. At the core of the problem seems the be the mandate under which Syriza was elected \u2014 namely to\u00a0end austerity, but remain in\u00a0the euro.<\/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>Is Greece About to Play its Geopolitical Trump Card and Ignite a Chain Reaction Across Europe? If the EMU powers persist mechanically with their stale demands \u2013 even reverting to terms that the previous pro-EMU government in Athens rejected in December \u2013 they risk setting off a political chain-reaction that can only eviscerate the EU [&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":[2467,279,2246,284,1167,2598,694,2236],"class_list":["post-7055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-emu","tag-eu","tag-european-monetary-union","tag-european-union","tag-greece","tag-grexit","tag-russia","tag-syriza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7055","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=7055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7056,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7055\/revisions\/7056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}