First off, you're wrong. Many people like Berlin. See, most people realise Berlin isn't run by nazis anymore. It's actually fucking nice people that try to make everyone just freaking get along with each other. Many countries look to us for support here and there. We didn't campaign to be the biggest country. We didn't start our economic success in the 60s with the goal to someday dominate a European Union 50 years later. It just happened. And we take responsibility, and we sometimes make difficult calls. Because nobody else wants to do it.
And many are grateful for that. Show some fucking gratitude that we're saving your ass. And nobody gives a shit how many tools you buy from Bosch, that's not paying us back. Make sure your country runs properly from now on, like a real democracy, with transparent budgets, with proper tax ethics and with a less corruption than Sicily, if you can manage that for a decade or so. So show some fucking humility. Your country has a bad reputation as it is, don't add to it by being an arrogant ass about it.
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Countries lend money to each other all the time. Germany lending to Greece before the crash was not a new or even uncommon thing, based on the faked budget reports that Greece showed everyone. It's the lending after the crash that's up for debate here. And when the country is about to starve, and let's not kid ourselves, it was close to full blown riots... banks were closed already, then lending a partner money to just keep things going is a good deed. Don't blame us for being good brothers to a bunch of ungrateful pricks that later keep on hating on us for it.
As for the deal. Greece agreed to it. Nobody got forced.
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You know what would have stopped the banks from closing?
Having control of your own currency. Thanks Germany!
You clearly do not understand how the EU works, but just to rack up arguments for reporting you, are you saying Germany forced EU countries into relinquishing their currencies and then destroys countries with debt? Is that what you're saying?
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Yeah, how about you lot take a lesson from us and start earning money? See, this is how hard work pays off. Something you apparently have yet to learn, Ulmita. So again, get cracking instead of making random bullshit posts here.
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So, you means only a Presidential system define what democracy is? Because we dont have any presidential system in EU. Just France with a semi-Presidential system, but many of EU Country dont have a direct election of the President... we vote for a Parliament.
In fact, you voted for who represents you in the European Parliament who chose the President of the European Council.
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I am saying that's exactly what happened with greece.
Greece lost control of printing their own currency, so when the banks LITERALLY run out of money they're pretty fucked like what happened in Greece.
Don't see how that's a reportable offense, but nice going showing your Authoritarianism
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so we all need to find some poor countries to cripple with bad deals? I thought Imperialism was bad? Or is it only bad when the English do it?
Greece were running fraudulent budgets and had swap contracts with foreign banks that they couldn't honor. When Germany, France and Italy intervened there were calls for closed borders and humanitarian aid in the realm of food and medicine. Nobody made Greece give up the Drachma but if the case is similar to Italy, it was better to go for the Euro, rather than having to deal with inflation.
If Greece still had the Drachma (provided it had any value up to now) right now it would be hyper-inflated because Greece would be literally printing its way out of debt. Choosing The Troika's deal was the lesser of two evils.
It's not quite that simple, Germany has been ducking Greece over the issue of repaying the money they stolen during WW2 for decades. Accounting for inflation Germany still owes Greece roughly €280bn, if you add interest it's nearly a trillion. Yet despite this they wouldn't even allow Greece to negotiate better terms for debt repayment.
They were not threatened and not bullied. Greece made offers. The EU rejected those offers. Tsipras started antagonizing the EU over the tabloid press and the EU responded by telling him to sit down and learn how politics and diplomacy works. Then Greece made more offers that got rejected until they made an offer that got accepted. This is, btw, the original offer the EU proposed. This is not bullying. This is what happens when two parites negotiate a deal where one party has all the cards in the hands and the other party has jack shit and is literally begging for alms.
The alternative would have been to abandon Greece and let them fight for survival on their own. That was a viable option Greece people like Ulmita still like to ignore. they think it would all have been dandy. Just like Tsipras said. Destroy the Drachme into oblivion and hope for investments. What he forgot to mention is that nobody on the planet ever thought seriously about investing into Greece after the crash. Greece was a no-go area for everyone with money. Still is.
So basically, and this is the actual truth, the only way to have a scenario in which Ulmita is NOT pissed off at Germany is... if Germany basically gifts 100s of billions of Euros to Greece. For free. Without any conditions. Until the next time Greece is in a pickle, because in that scenario, they'd never actually change their corrupt Government or bad practices.
And that's just a ridiculous notion.
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