[C19fan]

Greece descends into Olive Republic status. Can the Persians claim reparations for what Alexander the Great did?

[yldstrk]

They should pay. Nazis can never make up for what they did.

[bboop]

It’s the Al Sharpton thing - suck money from anyone you can. Let’s get on with it, lest someone hit the Greeks up for some egregious thing THEY did.

[grania]

Greece makes a good point. All of Europe suffered at the hands of Germany in WW2. Now they're suffering from manipulations of their leaders who took loans from German banks and used them for their own purposes and told populations that never saw any of it that they have forever unpayable debt and no control over their own economies.

Anything that takes down EU and global banking is good for all of us (unless you're a globalist elitist who profits from banking)

[exit82]

My spidey sense tells me that this Tsipras fellow is destined for greater things.

Can’t put my finger on it, but we are going to hear a lot about him in the future.

[Gay State Conservative]

Beware of Greeks bearing....anything.

[Lazamataz]

Muslims.

[trisham]

This was a really, really stupid move by Tsipras.

[tumblindice]

Eeek it's a Greek.

[JohnLongIsland]

What do you expect from someone who holds Hugo Chavez as a role model...

[kidd]

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

[fungoking]

Greece recovered enough from WWII to host an Olympics which cost as much as 15 billion. The 04 Olympics is more responsible for the current Greek crisis than 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?

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

This is quite clearly absolutely ridiculous.

Clearly the Greek government is desperate and is looking for a way to weasel out of the debt it owes Germany.

WWII is long over and there should be a statute of limitations. This is as equally ridiculous as blacks demanding reparations from slavery.

Germany was severely devastated and punished for its role in WWII and should not be forced to pay anymore now that war ended 70 years ago.

Greece, on the other hand, has been model of waste, inefficiency and a poster boy of stateism and socialism have wrecked most of Europe. The Greeks have only themselves to blame for their crappy economy, bloated government, and enormous debt load.