@hawkeye10,
Quote:If I were a Greek citizen at this point I would be saying "**** Europe, we are not selling our nation off in a fire sale at rock bottom prices to pay the banks...**** the banks too".
The 60's and 70's were decades when revolutionary armies coup the democrat governments is South America like crazy. It was a kind of spreading socialism.
The USA had to intervene to stop this new tendency in those new governments. From the center of this continent, manipulating El Salvador and Nicaragua, and from the extreme South with Chile, the strategy was to change back the political tendencies to become capitalists again. In some countries this US intervention caused their internal wars for years.
But, between the several years of boycotts against these nations with socialist tendencies,
the "new revolutionary governments" rejected to pay to the banks the debt caused by the former corrupted democratic governments.
And they didn't.
The economical situation in these countries became disastrous according to records. Even Argentine- a country that never participated in this kind of socialist tendency- paid for the broken dishes, because their economy was also affected because the neighbors bankruptcies.
Slowly but surely, the new revolutionary governments "learned" to survive by creating a "GLOBAL ECONOMY".
For example, it was Peru the first country breaking the political barrier with China. Up to those years, China was completely isolated from the West.
In the middle of the 'Western boycott", this country Peru started to have diplomatic and
economical relationship with countries like China, Russia, Yugoslavia...
Other countries imitated this initiative, and even African countries broke the traditional boundaries of leaning only on US and European countries, and everybody started to have economical trade with everybody...
at this time... without "intermediaries".
The new government in Greece promises today to take care more in their people than in the imposed payments of their debt.
Against any principle of paying back what is owed,
the reality is that banks has already collected with their high interests the whole debt of many countries, and stop paying their debt is not unrighteous anymore.
The lesson learned from the small South American countries changing the whole economical worldwide trade just by refusing paying their national debt, became at the end a positive out come for the entire world.