{"id":9963,"date":"2015-07-12T17:35:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T22:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9963"},"modified":"2015-07-12T17:35:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-12T22:35:12","slug":"tsipras-invites-schauble-to-fall-into-his-own-sword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9963","title":{"rendered":"Tsipras Invites Sch\u00e4uble To Fall Into His Own Sword"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tsipras Invites Sch\u00e4uble To Fall Into His Own Sword<\/a><\/h3>\n

Too many voices the past few days are all pointing the same way, and I\u2019ve always thought that is never good. A guessing-based consensus, jumping to conclusions and all that. Look, it\u2019s fine if you don\u2019t have all the answers, no matter how nervous it makes you.<\/p>\n

What I\u2019m referring to in this instance is the overwhelming conviction that Greece and Tsipras have conceded, given in to the Troika, flown a white flag, you get the drift. But guys, the battle ain\u2019t over yet.<\/p>\n

So here\u2019s an alternative scenario, purely hypothetically (but so in essence is the white flag idea, always got to wait for the fat lady), and for entertainment purposes only. Let \u2018er rip:<\/p>\n

Tsipras, first through holding a referendum, and then through delivering a proposal that at first sight looked worse than what the Troika provided before the referendum, has managed a number of things.<\/p>\n

First, his domestic support base has solidified. That\u2019s what the referendum confirmed once more. Second, he\u2019s given the Troika members, plus the various nations that think they represent them, something that was sure from the moment he sent it to them: a way to divide and rule and conquer the lot.<\/p>\n

Tsipras has set the IMF versus the EU versus the ECB. Sch\u00e4uble snapped at Draghi last night: \u201dDo you hold me for a fool?\u201d Germany itself is split too, Merkel and Sch\u00e4uble are at odds. Germany and France don\u2019t see eye to eye anymore. The US doesn\u2019t see eye to eye with any party involved.<\/p>\n

Italy is about to tell Germany to stop its shenanigans and get a deal done. The True Finns may get to decide the entire shebang, with less than 1 million rabid voters calling the shots for 320 million eurozone inhabitants.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tsipras Invites Sch\u00e4uble To Fall Into His Own Sword Too many voices the past few days are all pointing the same way, and I\u2019ve always thought that is never good. A guessing-based consensus, jumping to conclusions and all that. Look, it\u2019s fine if you don\u2019t have all the answers, no matter how nervous it makes […]<\/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],"tags":[195,200,218,233,279,1167,418,7008,5177,2868,2858],"class_list":["post-9963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-debt","tag-default","tag-draghi","tag-ecb","tag-eu","tag-greece","tag-imf","tag-schauble","tag-the-automatic-earth","tag-troika","tag-tsipras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9963","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=9963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9964,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9963\/revisions\/9964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}