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1. Don't know about that but it doesn't look relevant. You strongly suggested that there was doubt about the fraud. There isn't.

2. It is not in doubt. It is a wild and unproven statement. Do you know what Greece's policy would have been without the euro? What it would have done if weren't for the euro? If it would have been able to continue with tax fraud, corruption and crony economics forever? Do you know if Turkey would have been admitted to the EU if Greece had not had a voice? It is impossible to know what the world would have looked like if events had turned out differently. This is exactly why historians reject alternative history (what-if-Hitler-had-won-stories). The only instance I know of where it had a (limited) degree of credibility is a study done decades ago with the influence of barbed wire on US agriculture.

3. What Nicholas said and what he was are different things. He claimed supremacy of the orthodox church, like most czars before and all czars after him, because he had a vested political interest - the ongoing enmity with the Ottoman empire. After the Raskol, the Russian and Greek rites had diverged. Today, the Patriarchs of the Russian and Greek churches do not claim each other's territory. In other words, the religious link you refer to ended in 1653.

4. Have you taken the trouble to compare Russian and Greek script?

5. As in the article, you confuse war and proxy war, as you mix up socialism, nationalism and communism. Tony Blair will get you for that.

6. The argument is false. The core of the question is Greek unemployment. Greek growth is crucial for that. The Greek economy is growing, therefore, time is in favour of a solution. Ongoing reforms are the key for further growth. Greek debt is only a derived problem. It is quite easy to solve by rolling it over with a significantly longer maturity and QE will be of benefit to Greece, as will the above-mentioned growth. That will take concessions on reform, not repeal of reform. It will also take a stop to posturing and a start to realistic thinking. The main danger is not political, but stupidity of the parties concerned and the irrational and irresponsible hatred of anything concerning the EU and the euro in anglo-saxon countries, where financial market sentiment (as opposed to fact) is shaped.

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