Eeek it's a Greek.
Posted on 03/24/2015 5:54:34 AM PDT by C19fan
Greece’s leftwing prime minister Alexis Tsipras stood beside German leader Angela Merkel and demanded war reparations over Nazi atrocities in Greece on Monday night, even as the two leaders sought to bury the hatchet following weeks of worsening friction and mud-slinging.
“It’s not a material matter, it’s a moral issue,” said Tsipras, unusually insisting on raising the “shadows of the past” at the heart of German power in the gleaming new chancellery in Berlin. It was believed to be the first time a foreign leader had gone to the capital of the reunified Germany to make such a demand.
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This was a really, really stupid move by Tsipras.
Does your theory extend to descendants of US slaveholders?
Eeek it's a Greek.
Japanese probably saved your Grandfathers’ life from the Communists.
Although the Communists probably never would have taken power if the Japanese hadn’t invaded.
Not now. Soon after the Civil War, yes. Kindly see my post #9. And I certainly admit that all this is a judgment call. My definition of "soon after" might well be very different than someone else's definition.
What do you expect from someone who holds Hugo Chavez as a role model...
They are? I'm thinking more in lines of Germany winning WW3 in Europe, through their economic domination. I honestly did not even know that there were Jewish people in significant numbers in Germany.
Gavrilo Princip caused WWI, and without WWI there would have been no WWII, so maybe the Bosnian Serbs owe reparations to everyone who suffered in either war. Of course no one in 1919 or later suggested that since the Bosnian Serbs had very little money (you can't get blood out of a turnip), but that's where the logic of reparations could take you.
In fact we've already started down that road. It will not lead to a good place - it never has.
My dad named me after his brother, who died on the Bataan Death March, in the Philippines. I do not hold present day Japanese responsible for that, and I do not expect reparations.
There is a lot of truth in that, and to ignore it is to get caught up in an endless loop of grievances.
But on the other hand, suppose a company willfully makes a defective product, and that product does great harm to many families. Shouldn't the company be held accountable, even if the original officers are all gone?
I guess what I'm saying is that there are two sides to this issue. And that's where my statute of limitations argument comes in.
Tsipras is a snake who has no intention of repaying the money lent to him.
Reparations for WWII is an excuse.
No one was asking for WWII reparations until the loan payment came due. WWII reparations was not part of what Tsipras campaigned on.
It is plain to see that Tsipras is Europe’s Hugo Chavez
One could easily argue that the NATO nations, primarily the USA, paid Greece billions during the cold war. Greece has always been a taker and used its unique geography to get billions in direct and indirect aid. If the money dried up, Greece threaten closer ties with the Soviet Union.
Oh yeah right. And him suffering malnutrition in the camp was nothing, seeing people beaten to death, priests in hot boxes was nothing, the Japanese “saved” him. You are a complete idiot.
There is no equivalent moral imperative that applies to individuals and their progeny.
There aren’t Jewish people there now, hello, they were gassed, shot, starved, beaten to death in WW2.
He was referring to WWI, I was referring to WWII.
If Greece is able to guilt Germany out of $ for WWII damage, will they forward that on to the USA for repayment of the $376 million (1950’s dollars) they collected through the Marshall Plan?
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