miharo
Padawan Learner
I hope it is just you, Niall Bradley, because it is a profound misinterpretation.
On a personal level Schaeuble is most probably a very demoralized personality. In 1990 he survived an assassination attempt and is captured in a wheelchair since. 1997 Helmut Kohl, after being 16 years Chancellor of Germany, placed Schaeuble as his desired successor in the first row, in a moment in which he could only lose the election. Since then he has no chance any more to become Chancellor.
1999 he played an ambiguous roll in the donations scandal of his party, the CDU. He is still most probably to be susceptible to blackmail.
Beside all this Schaeuble is a pretty upright and straight-lined character, I think. He is jurist with little understanding of economy.
He follows simple guidelines. One is “Pacta sunt servanda" (=agreements must be kept). A housewife-wisdom proverb he quotes on and off is “Everybody brushes in front of its own door.” Thats from the region he comes from in Germany, Swabia, and that makes him a little ridiculous for Germans not from the area.
While conducting the negotiations about the Greek government-debt crisis it was Schaeubles job to convince the Germans of the necessity of the so called 3. Economic Adjustment Program or 3. Aid Package. Nobody should even think openly about Greece national bankruptcy, the only reasonable ending.
They need this very crisis indefinitely in order to push things toward the European Central State. The next step on the agenda is a European Finance Ministry.
Without any claims and demands addressed to the Greek government the German people would not have accepted to act again as a guarantor for Greek dept. The people in Germany swallowed it because Schaeubles merciless show was convincing. The menace for “Grexit” was a bluff. What an arc of suspense.
Now the money is permitted and flows. The Tsipras Government is gone and the next Greek Government will care a damn shit about “Pacta sunt servanda" (as long as they get the money). Without a doubt the new Greek Government will say “We did not negotiate this!”. Everybody in the establishment knows this.
Everybody knows that Greece can never repay anything because an substantial Greek economy doesn't exist. Greece will never transpose any of the so called reforms. The Greek society is entirely rooted in nepotism. The existing rudimental Greek economy is patronage economy.
Schaeuble, born in 1942, belongs to a generation fully traumatized and brain-washed by WW2 and the holocaust. They do everything to get rid of their German identity. Thats why they push the EU, inexorably.
What the German majority shall not see is that they are only chosen to finance the EU playhouse, a project somehow between socialism and fascism. But Germans are not invited to set the rolls, the real coup plotters are not in Berlin. They are elsewhere but without German money the show is over, irreversible. The European Union never was, nor is today or will be a German-controlled institution.
I'd never thought that I will stand up for Wolfgang Schaeuble but to compare him with “a certain notorious German Chancellor” is utterly below grade.
And, by the way, it is not a very challenging task to take an disadvantageous photo of someone. You just have to shot dozens of pics per second and then select the most stupid one.
Hope part 2 of the essay is getting better.
