Foreign media, you have no friggin’ idea what’s going on in Greece, do you?
By: Tassos Thalassis
Tags: Greek Debt, Greece, Greece Crisis

Greek bankruptcy: Rusting public bus power plants victims of no maintenance

Lately, we’ve been inundated by enthusiastic reports about the new Greek administration of Kyriakos “the Reformist” Mitsotakis and how all things Greek have suddenly have turned rosy.

These reports, however, have one common weakness: their hooplas are focused on how the economy will supposedly revive and how, suddenly, all Greeks will be able to share larger pieces of the pie and soon feel satiated after nine years of relentless killer austerity.

Figures, projections, and the usual “investor’s” brouhaha though ignore the unresolved core of Greece’s crisis viz. the deliberate evisceration of the country’s economic and social future by the “bailouts” concocted by Greece’s supposed “partners” in the EU.

Greece’s transformation into a protectorate, with only nominal sovereignty, run by the EU, receives little, if any mention. Few of the erudite foreign “analysts” are eager to remind us that Greece was not allowed to default in 2010 and get rid of her mountain of debt once and for all because European bank colossi would have gone under and, along with them, the Euro currency would have been the moribund target of the “markets” overnight. The result would have been the collapse of the friggin’ Eurozone and the end of the fabulous profits collected by the northern developed economies.

“Analysts” forget to mention the thorough disembowelment of the country by the Tsipras Gang and its accolades in the public sector — a labyrinthine structure of corruption, mismanagement, and out-and-out theft of public monies — the same Tsipras Gang who licked the shoes of Greece’s European overlords and meekly proceeded to destroy their own country like the Nazi-era Quislings.

“Analysts” forget to mention the utter pauperization of large swaths of less well-off Greeks and, especially, pensioners (all 2.5 million of them). They forget Greece was turned from a country of near zero suicides before 2010 to a country in which “According to published reports…. [suicides] have increased up to 40% and Crete has been highlighted as an area with the sharpest increase.” They forget the public hospitals without drugs, instruments, dressings, linen, cleaning supplies, and proper food. They forget public transit buses exploding while on the move in Athens (source in Greek) and hundreds of others rusting away in depots for want of spares and proper maintenance. They forget Greece’s Public Power Corporation, the only major electricity generator, is bankrupt and close to shutting down the whole of the country.

“Analysts” forget the explosion of street and organized crime thanks to the Tsipras Gang and its blatantly pro-criminal attitude that pushed it, only days before losing the election on July 7, to pass a swift amendment of the penal code that is already sending imprisoned terrorists, serious criminals, and all other kinds of dangerous felons on the way to freedom. They also forget Greece has been transformed into the septic tank of Europe, with tens of thousands of “irregular” Afro-Asiatics stuck in-country because Greece’s northern border is hermetically sealed by order of the EU lest the “irregulars” “leak” north and mess the political soup of prominent “humanitarian” countries like Germany, France, and other “civilized European core” states.

That’s what’s going on in “European” Greece… and country lethally close to African standards thanks to her “partners” of a venomous, authoritarian, empire-building “European Union.”