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It's all still about Greece, and that makes sense, if nothing else Syriza is a breath if not a tornado of fresh air. But those too pass. The question at the end remains: did anything really change? It's quite possible, don't get me wrong, but Tsipras and Vanoufakis are
busy looking out for the people who voted for them, not the rest of the Europe, or the world for that matter. And neither should they.
They've already gotten good response from Obama, from France and Britain, and if only for that reason they will get more. But you have to understand what they are trying to do: getting a better life for their own people, and
that's hard enough all by itself. The best they can do for now, hopefully, is that.
But Greece is merely a symptom of something bigger and deeper that is going wrong.
There's an ideological battle happening between money and wellbeing, between people and banks. Western leaders have so far chosen to protect money and banks, instead of people and their wellbeing, and that's why we find ourselves where we do. Choosing money before people can only end in the demise of the system that makes such a choice. That, however, is
apparently terribly hard to comprehend.
Comment: It looks like Putin was right: Everything the U.S. touches turns into Libya.
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