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A little late for that.
If they pay off Greece, I could only imagine how much Poland would get.
This is issue was forgiven and forgotten, and then along came the euro. What a peace project!
Iran will be suing for the Persian Wars any day now
That move by Greece is a sign of desperation.
What a bunch of crap. The German government of today replaced one that was obliterated by war. It isnt the debt of some German 30 year old today. This is like slavery reparation arguments in the USA. If you buy a house, you aren’t liable for the child support the previous owner owes.
We did the same thing to Iraq. We obliterated the Baath government of Saddam. A new government was installed, and we and every other creditor on earth, -required- the new government to assume all of Saddams financial obligations.
This fraudulent crap does 2 evil things. It encourages warfare by carefully ensuring that the banksters will not lose any investments due to the fighting. And worse, it encourages banksters and NGOs like the world bank to loan to tyrants that might be overthrown, or who may start wars of their own.
If a banker was thinking of loaning money to a dictator, he would need to consider his risk exposure much more carefully, if his borrower was likely to be deposed by a just war. The new government would not be held accountable.
A more interesting case might be if the Greek government sued the banks that funded the Nazi government.
but im of the school that war is the end of law and diplomacy. Lawsuits to sue the losers are wrong. The war is how those accounts are settled.
It’s like a reset on diplomacy. Total destruction of a government also destroys its financial debt. This make Germany pay attitude realistically impoverished post WW1 Germany and lead directly to WWII.
No reparations. And no inherited guilt for what dad did or didn’t do.
fine, and while the Greeks have their claims in court, every German company should lay dormant all their investments in Greece - don’t sell them to Greeks, just hold them in mothballs for a period of time equal to how long Greece has not filed raparations claims
Dont they deserve royalties from the frat bros in the USA?
Too late. Just an excuse to continue being lazy.
Things are actually getting a little funny in Europe right now. Merkel gave such a forceful speech about European financial unity, that some wit was suggesting it was a bit too much “Fourth Reich-y”. This made the whole German government tap dance trying to pull back from her “forthrightness”.
For the Greeks to hit the Germans up right now is, from their point of view, a bit of desperation; but from the German point of view, there will likely be a whole lot of fuming about “paying blackmail to untermensch.”
Yeah, kind of a schadenfreude thing from our point of view.
And the next time Greece goes crawling to the EU for a loan Germany might just say “no.” Then modern Greece’s short experiment with democracy will be over.