{"id":20272,"date":"2015-04-08T16:35:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T20:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=20272"},"modified":"2015-04-08T16:36:57","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T20:36:57","slug":"alexis-tsipras-risks-fresh-schism-with-europe-after-warning-of-new-cold-war-with-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/04\/08\/alexis-tsipras-risks-fresh-schism-with-europe-after-warning-of-new-cold-war-with-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexis Tsipras risks fresh schism with Europe after warning of new Cold War with Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UK Telegraph<\/em> has the story Alexis Tsipras risks fresh schism with Europe after warning of new Cold War with Putin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mr Tsipras also risked opening up a new schism with the European Union, repeating his claim that economic warfare would not resolve Europe\u2019s simmering security problems with its eastern giant, and could presage a new \u201cCold War in Europe\u201d.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the visit, EU officials warned Greece of undermining the continent\u2019s unity over economic sanctions imposed on Moscow in the wake of the Ukraine crisis.<\/p>\n

The Kremlin has been courting Greek political support against its Western-backed sanctions, threatening a fresh rupture between the debtor state and the EU.
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\n\u201cIf one of the Europe\u2019s leaders acts according to his national interests then it is perceived as a violation of the principle of solidarity \u2013 as if the principle of solidarity, as it might seem, was invented only in order to support the Russophobic minority in the European Union,\u201d said Mr Lavrov.<\/p>\n

Russian companies would also look to take part in the tenders for planned privatisations of Greece\u2019s strategic assets \u2013 including its ports, airports and energy grids. The likes of state-backed Gazprom have already been invited to take part in the exploration of oil and natural gas off Greece\u2019s eastern shore.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I tried to string enough excerpts together to justify my opinion.\u00a0 I am not sure it completely conveys how I got to the conclusion that I did.<\/p>\n

The western oligarchs are trying to rape Greece, but they want Greece to maintain its solidarity with them.\u00a0 They want to drive Greece into a privatization of its assets at fire-sale prices to the western oligarchs, but Greece may sell them to the Russian oligarchs.<\/p>\n

The western oligarchs want to maintain sanctions on Russia so that they can force the Ukraine to take the same deal and eventual rape that they are offering Greece.\u00a0 Greece may have found an alternative path that frustrates both aims of the western oligarchs.<\/p>\n

As they say in this country, “Payback is a bitch.”\u00a0 Maybe I should have said itch in my comment on the Telegraph web site.<\/p>\n

Hold on, this is waiting to be approved by Telegraph. <\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With the notorious nudes they have on page three of some of their newspapers, I didn’t think they would be so sensitive.\u00a0 Must just be a cultural misunderstanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The UK Telegraph has the story Alexis Tsipras risks fresh schism with Europe after warning of new Cold War with Putin. Mr Tsipras also risked opening up a new schism with the European Union, repeating his claim that economic warfare would not resolve Europe\u2019s simmering security problems with its eastern giant, and could presage a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20272"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20275,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20272\/revisions\/20275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}