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originally posted by: JBurns
With France and Germany going behind the Washington's back in recent negotiations [...]
originally posted by: LionOfGOD
Until Greece starts to put something else into the wallets of others
besides their hands,
they should STFU.
originally posted by: learnatic
Paul Wolfowitz, the neoconservative who was Deputy Secretary of Defense under the Bush regime, declared:
“Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere, that poses a threat on the order of that posed formerly by the Soviet Union. This is a dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power.”
Is Wolfowitz, when referring to “hostile power” referring to any power independent of Washington’s control?
Ref: Paul Craig Roberts
originally posted by: LionOfGOD
Until Greece starts to put something else into the wallets of others
besides their hands,
they should STFU.
originally posted by: SheopleNation
At the end of the day, Greece is located strategically at the crossroads of Europe, Asia and Africa. So with that being said, there will never be allowed any potential enemy Naval bases located within the Greek isles, the deciders are not going to have it, Germany certainly will not.
Greece owes The U.S and The EU, well actually The International Bankers really (Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase), a huge amount of debt after them being bailed out during their own financial crisis between 2010 - 2014. Oh and just to be clear, U.S Tax payers assisted Greece with their financial needs.
What is really bad for Greece though, is some of these loans were kept off the books as well. Know what that means? = Multiple shady forces foaming out their mouths, and licking their chops for an excuse to bring the hammer down when the perfect time presents itself. Maybe some Russian banks were maybe involved eh? Well I have no idea.
I doubt Russia is foolish enough to play the Cuba card with Greece anyway. If Putin was so bold, everyone will get their World War 3 without a doubt for sure though. ~$heopleNation
The resolute tone of the declaration is grounded in earlier Council conclusions, adopted unanimously on 18 December, which clearly states that "the EU will stay the course" on Russia and is "ready to take further steps if necessary."
But that was before Tsipras came to power. In a statement, the Greek government denounced the “non-institutional” way in which the declaration was drafted.
The EU statement, it said, “was released without the prescribed procedure to obtain consent by the member states and particularly without ensuring the consent of Greece”.
“Greece does not consent to this statement,” concludes the communiqué.
The leaders’ discussion focused partly on possible routes to send Russian natural gas through Greece into the rest of the European Union, the state-owned news service Sputnik reported. Russia previously sent a large proportion of its gas through Ukraine to Europe, but the conflict between the Ukrainian government and Russian-backed rebels has put that arrangement on hold.
Russia wants to build a new gas route through Turkey that would carry 50 billion cubic meters of fuel to Europe every year.
Filling out his complete rejection of the international community's handling of the Ukraine crisis, Tsipras denounced international sanctions against Moscow, which he said will "only harm Europe".