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Is this a spoof or a serious article?

- there is not a generally held belief that Greek stats were falsified, there is certainty.
- well spent illegally obtained money is not an acceptable way of financing.
- peace by EU is not forgotten. Several European countries have issued 70 years of peace commemorative coins.
- there is no evidence that Greece and the EU would have been better off without each other. Just opinions. Serious historians have rejected alternative history as a method of analysis.
- Greece does not have a thousand year link with Russia. Byzantium was no friend of the Kievan Rus (exception: the Varangian guard, which was not Russian). Small but significant example: a Byzantine silver bar would be accepted in Venice, but melted in Kiev, because they used a different weight standard. After the fall of Constantinople, Greece came under the influence of Bulgaria, not Russia. The Greek and Russian churches are competitors. The Ottoman empire was the arch-enemy of czarist Russia. After the second world war, Greece fought off USSR supported communists.
- the EU is already in a proxy war over the Ukraine, witness mutual boycotts and EU financial advice and aid in place or offered to the Ukraine
- there is a legal inevitability that getting out of the euro means getting out of the EU, not a political inevitability. The issue is premature, hypothetical and not enlightening.

I could go on, but what for?

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