[clintonh8r]

Let Greece crash and burn. This charade is more about Eurozone face-saving than Greece’s future. The Eurozone was doomed from the start. It was always just a matter of time, a time which has arrived.

[Mariner]

Something tells me the Greeks don't care what the Germans think anymore.

And, I believe, they are determined to repudiate their debt and start over.

Just like we will someday do.

Sometimes the debt is just tooooo big to pay.

[Berlin_Freeper]

German politicians have reacted with shock and anger to Greece's rejection of an offer from its creditors that could have unlocked much-needed bailout funds. Athens could go bankrupt within a matter of days.

[faithhopecharity]

I don’t know a lot about this, so please excuse a question.
What if Greece simply said it was going back to being an independent country ... (started its own drachma currency again, etc.)? ...

[Cowboy Bob]

I’m glad I had a chance to visit Greece before it was owned by Germany!

[Billthedrill]

As another FReeper reminded me in another thread:

Deutsche bank is holding over 57 TRILLION dollars in Credit Default Swaps related to Greek Debts.

Ripping that bandaid off is gonna hurt.

[VanDeKoik]

Different clothes, and bit more chill, but the same Teutonic boot about to come down on Greece again.

[hal ogen]

These Germans are insensitive.. They should keep working hard and into their 70’s so that the socialist degenerate Greeks can work until only 50 and then lay around drinking coffee. Have they no conscience???

[arthurus]

Ultimately, these repeated bailout funds are no more than throwing good money after bad. None of it will be repaid. Yhe sooner Greece goes under economically and goes away politically the better for all concerned. If it precipitates a breakup of Europe, well better now than later. The longer the crash is delayed the longer the fall and the harder the crash.

[Kolokotronis]

WWII reparations would pay the bill just fine!

https://youtu.be/MD6oDnm43HA

[Cementjungle]

Greece is the canary in the liberal coal mine. Putting a gas mask on it isn’t going to help the others in the coal mine one bit.

[The_Reader_David]

Germany is the biggest European contributor to the bailout programmes that have kept Greece afloat papered over the malfeasance of the IMF in violating its remit to fix national economies in 2010 with actions that helped French and German banks, rather than Greece for the past five years.

There, fixed that.

Yes, I know almost everyone in Europe is saying that Tsipras is a "madman". I agree with The Telegraph's editorialist on this: the madmen are the people who designed the euro and who think it's still a workable idea.