ken hanly wrote: > Greece has not been able to form a coalition government that supports the > austerity measures agreed to with the Troika. The next elections are likely > to result in an anti-deal government. Is there a possibility that the > military might stage a coup to form a national salvation government and go > ahead with the agreed upon measures? In the past Greece had a military > government to save it from communism I presume. Now it needs a military > government to impose the recipes of the Troika and save them from democracy. > Is there any likelihood that a coup might occur?<
I don't know, but it's there's a small possibility that a coup could go "left" as in Peru in 1968 -- or even like Hugo Chavez. If enough people are protesting austerity, the military might repudiate debt in order to avoid disorder and even revolution, in order to preserve capitalism. (Of course, the military version of "left" involves building up the supply of weapons, etc.) -- Jim Devine / "When truth is nothing but the truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world. In nature there are always so many other irrelevant things mixed up with the essential truth." -- Aldous Huxley _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
