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Europe’s leaders are meeting today to decide what to do about Greece. Those leaders are not unified. France and Italy want to help Greece. Germany and Finland want Greece to jump in the Aegean and drown, but only after paying back an unpayable debt created by a combination of Grecian profligacy and reckless German lending. This, as the New York Times reports, is a clash of cultures, with practical economics and politics being subordinated to national character, especially in authoritarian Germany, where anal retentive, heel clicking, Prussian pigheadedness is just as strong as ever.
For the people of Greece:
And for Angela Merkel and her loan sharkish finance minister: