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It's bizarre that people try to draw comparisons to the EU and United States because shit doesn't get this ridiculous except maybe once every 200 years. Maybe during the great depression people hated other people from other states.
Tourism is considered an export, but Jesus Christ, Santorini is expensive and tourism is not nearly as edible as soybeans.
/brief threadjack
That's a highly debatable statement. The victorious Allies decided Germany started the war after the war ended, but historians are actually much more divided on the question. I personally lean more towards Russia or Austria-Hungary as the power that actually started the war, if one has to assign blame at all. Once Russia decided to mobilize it's armies (back in the day, this was a clear act of war) after Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, Germany then declared war on Russia and France, since the Germans realized they were going to have to fight them both anyways. The Germans simply misunderstood Britian's will to enforce her treaty with Belgium. In many ways, you could actually argue that Britian was to blame for the way they handled the diplomatic communications in the days prior to the war.
To be frank, the start of WWI had so much to do with societal issues in Europe that it's unfair to blame one single nation for starting the war.
/why yes, the start of WWI was what I wrote my senior thesis on.
//sorry for the threadjack, back to Greece.
Shipping is a much larger contributor (especially now, since instability drives down tourism revenues), but depressed global economies mean less stuff being shipped.
It's kind of a perfect storm of shittiness for Greece right now. I don't envy their policymakers.
Pi-r8, there is truth in that statement to some degree. They expected (and planned) to fight a two-front war on Russia/France because of the alliance between France/Russia. When Russia mobilized it's armies, Germany's war plan (the infamous Schlieffen Plan) gave it 6 weeks to knock out France before being faced with an unwinnable two front war. The Schlieffen Plan, of course, has been debated to death as to it's viability.
IMHO, Von Moltke's slight alteration to the SP made it fail; the whole point was a quick, aggressive strike. By shoring up the defense instead of going for the kill, the plan collapsed. More distinquished historians claim the plan was doomed from the start because there simply was no way to effectively enact the plan due to the logistics available at the time.
The plan called for the right flank to advance at a ridiculous pace per day. It was simply not viable.
Greece just overextended itself way more than everybody else.
Yeah for all the hooblah about Greece being punished here the other options involve us taking the hit.
I'm not sure how much you know about the Greek Orthodox church, but they have a proud tradition of over a millennia of rampant corruption and moneygrubbing at the expense of everyone else. The Metropolites in Greece usually seem to live in the fanciest houses on the street.
Rigorous Scholarship
The solution (or lack there of) involves alot of mistakes by non-Greeks yes. The problems are largely Greece's faults, but others take the blame as well sure.
But the thing is this:
Without help, Greece would be fucked so so so bad. The Eurozone isn't imposing a shitty situation on Greece, they are merely refusing to save them from one.
And they are refusing to help them because they (mostly correctly) thinks it's alot Greece's own fault and they have no interest in spending their money to fix someone else's problem.
The Eurozone is a monetary union, but it's not a cultural/national union and that's a really BIG problem. Because the sense of community that comes with national/cultural unity is what makes people willing to do shit like pay to help people in trouble.
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