From Birthplace to Deathplace of Democracy: The
Tragic Capitulation of Greece
By Emanuel E. Garcia
July 21, 2015 "Information
Clearing House"
- By now the tragic – and it is no irony to
use such a word where Western notions of Tragedy were born –
capitulation of Greece to the Troika is a fait accompli. The Tsipras
government, the same government who gained office through the powers
invested in them by the populace who strenuously voted ‘no’ to the
strangling noose tightened by the EU, caved in. Who knows by what
other ways they were threatened by their creditors?
So Greece will exist not as a nation, but as a property of the
greater EU bankster set, who have already privatised the vast
majority of their public assets and will privatise even more. It’s
getting the last remaining drops of blood from the corpse of their
own creation.
Former Greek finance minister Varoufakis has rightly called the
‘deal’ a failure before it has begun.
So the reasonably intelligent follower of world news must ask
himself or herself? What does this mean for the rest of us?
Noam Chomsky was fond of saying that understanding geopolitics was
well within the grasp of hoi polloi who, after all, expend a great
deal of creative intelligence following sports and suchlike. Since I
am far from being a political genius or political economist, let me
offer a few thoughts, but let me begin by asking who will benefit
from the present situation, aside from the usual corporate suspects.
The destruction of the nationhood of Greece and its debt
subservience for the foreseeable future will serve as an example to
those other countries in similar situations: Spain, Portugal,
Ireland and Italy, for example, to toe the line. Despite exorbitant
unemployment rates, and despite a drain of the future of such
countries of their talented and intelligent youth, they will remain
in the EU upon pain of ... of what? Well, even more extreme economic
occupation, so that they will become an emasculated reservoir of
assets for the elite, or a source of cheap labour for the rest of
Europe, not unlike what has already happened to the former
Yugoslavia.
However the EU itself, with such a divisively elite hierarchy, will
hardly be able to survive as a powerful bloc. And here is where it
gets interesting.
Who benefits from a disunited Europe? A disunited Europe that will
not be able to mount action independent of the United States, for
example? Well, the United States.
The Great Game now being played out is a game that pits East versus
West: the Sino-Soviet alliance and associated partners (BRICS),
versus the United States and its vassal dominion, Europe.
Europe, which itself has mastered the bloody art of brutal
dismemberment via centuries of internecine war, can benefit from
friendly relations with its Soviet neighbours and, by extension, the
newly proposed Silk Road.
But in the quest for unipolar global dominance the United States,
driven by its own corporatocracy, will smile while a weakened and
compliant EU allows NATO to use its territory to flex geopolitical
muscle.
The capitulation of Greece signals an end of a truly unified Europe
and the stark beginning of a flexibly accommodating European
economic oligarchy – accommodating not to the citizens populating
the countries that constitute the EU, but to imperial ambition. So
much for the demos.
It’s not so hard to figure out, really, but it’s hard to stomach,
especially if you live there.
Dr. Garcia is a Philadelphia-born physician and writer who now
resides in New Zealand.
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