So to recap, Greece has put forward a plan of reforms, spending cuts and tax rises that is close to what was demanded by its creditors before Alexis Tsipras called last Sunday’s referendum.What a waste of a referendum... People will ask why. The answer will be brutal, depressing.
Good luck Greece. Next time pay your bill on time. Turn those old creepy olympic stadiums into a resort before they turn into dust. Do not believe someone who tries to sell you the moon again.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1110202.0 Exactly. But not surprising. There were plans for a ukrainian-style coup d'etat floating about before that referendum, and for that one needs at least minor social unrest. If Tsipras agrees to that "plan of reforms", it will be a suicide. Just like with Janukovich, who agreed to early elections with EU guarantors standing behind, and then got removed from the office the next day by armed thugs, so will Tsipras face the same scenario. He agrees to reforms, next day there'll be unrest on the streets with optional Nudel-cookies, some unknown and unaccounted snipers will shoot at police and at demonstrators from the rooftops, and then suddenly Greece will be ruled by a new "democratic" US State Dep-approved government...
https://futuristrendcast.wordpress.com/2015/07/10/6814/The ‘bad, cookie-wielding people from across the big pond’ simply used the situation skillfully to their advantage. Said another way: there is an old CIA/MI6 playbook: How to create color revolutions. It is the opinion of some very good analysts that this playbook hasn’t changed (it was only perfected) since the beginning of the 20th century. Why change what works wonders?
That’s how all these color revolutions we have observed, were created. Be it France to unseat De Gaulle, or Hungary in 1956, or Georgia, or Egypt, or Serbia, or Ukraine… It’s the same exact playbook. That’s why it was so easy to predict from the start that there would be cookies on Kiev maidan (or lavash, as in Armenia) and mysterious snipers, and innocent victims promoted all over Western MSM.
What this playbook targets is this: it capitalizes on the deep-seated resentments and anger of the volatile and immature part of the population. Extreme nationalism is part of the resentment and dissatisfaction due to the collapsing standard of living. This is why there was no nationalism in the USSR – the majority lived reasonably free (yes, free – in a sense of personal freedom to be yourself and live according to your tradition), was reasonably satisfied and well-occupied.
The movements to change things and the local power grabs began only after Gorbachev destroyed the structure that worked. Gorby’s intention may have been to reform and rebuild on the new level, however, in his naiveté he had no idea who and what he was dealing with internationally. You can’t try to negotiate in good faith, you can’t try to build cooperative relations with those countries that have one exclusive goal: to destroy your country. This is why most Russians consider Gorbachev a traitor and criminal. However, I think this is too simplified of a view. He genuinely thought he was building a new, cooperative world with the West – the world without confrontation. But along the way, he and his wife fell for the trappings of Western materialism, aka, very subtle bribes.
I pray Tsipras does not fall into the same trap that Gorby did.
