Is the media making Merkel a villain? Is she one?

MightyMandarin wrote: »

The Euro crisis has been a disaster for Germany and Merkel; they've lost a heap of money pumping bailouts into Greece which they may never earn back

Ah will you stop, no country has benefitted as much as German has under the Euro. You think they've lost a lot of money in Greece? Yet just think of all the money the Irish taxpayer saved them, by shielding those big German creditors from the losses they should have taken. Yes revisionist spin tries to deny that reality, but it is what it is.

MightyMandarin wrote: »

Merkel faces destroying her otherwise great leadership by continuing to give even more money to the clowns from Athens.

Oh you mean the clowns that were willing accepted into the Euro by Geramny? The clowns that Goldman Sachs fraudulently cooked the books for, to help gain admittance to the Euro club. And the German banks, knowing all of this and with the full knowledge of Greece's poor record of economic management, willing dealt out lots of cheap credit. And why? Because obedient puppets like Merkel would obey. Puppets like her and Lenihan & co, nationalised their private debt and transferred that private debt onto the shoulders of the eurpoean taxpayers.

MightyMandarin wrote: »

I'm glad that arsehole Tsipras got what he deserved and hopefully the Greek people will learn what happens when you vote these left wing nutjobs into Govt.

Isn't democracy a bítch? Yes lets punish the people for not leaning to the the far right obedient drone mantra. Hitler needed to use tanks and planes to bring nations to heel. Today Merkel and her ilk merely need to use ATM machines. Something did change in europe after what happened last week and it has left a very bad taste in people's mouths.

KomradeBishop wrote: »

Whatever about her personality or domestic politics, she's the leader of the country that just slammed Greece with a modern-day Versailles treaty, and which actively vetos reform of a monetary union, that inherently benefits Germany (making them artificially competitive on exports/trade) and holds all other Euro countries down (making them artificially less competitive to Germany, on exports/trade).

Europe needs a crisis as a union that is resolved without reverting to war, but instead with diplomacy. This is not the first time Greece has defaulted, it has done so about 500 times in the last century. This time, the plan to prevent it happening again and becoming a military dictaorship or "Defecting" under the Asia Minor or Russian sphere.

It has nothing to do with the Euro. What has happened, has happened over and over in Greece for decades.

"It is all the fault of Brussels" is easy to grasp and reductionist, so not a suprise that Anglophone media would focus on it. Plenty of countries both within the EU and in or outside the Euro are doing just fine. The presence of Euro has simply forced the weaker countries to get their sh1t together, like Ireland, which did (although by retaining as much of a welfare state as possible, thus hammering home grown businesses and middle class, which has its own consequences, but that is how FG FF and the political class decided it should be).

Not enough people realise this yet, but the economic crisis for periphery countries was practically built-in to the Euro (probably out of stupidity more than malice), and it's Germany blocking any possibility of reform (and who will probably permanently block reform within our lifetimes), where the only real reform that will fix it is moving towards fiscal union.

By reform you really mean lose fiscal policies. It would be a step backwards and whoever is the big dog calls the shots. America is world police with regard to the Army and wars, Germany is Europe Police with regard to debt and finances. No bad thing.