We destroyed Greece to save the banks!

MF - We destroyed Greece to save the banks!Maria Negreponti-Delivanis Maria Negreponti-Delivanis
IMF - We destroyed Greece to save the banks!
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Maria Negreponti-Delivanis
29 May 2019
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The IMF has recently confessed that, together with our "dear partners", Greece has chosen Greece as a modern Iphigenia in order to save European banks from a certain disaster. This confession fell like a massive bomb on the eve of the European elections.However, this tragic reality has been completely transparent since the first moment of our conviction.
Perhaps, however, as a semi-official announcement, it has been easier for us to fall into the category of conspiracy than those of our grateful compatriots who insist on arguing that for all our horrors that have been happening for about ten years, we are at fault. While, on the contrary, the same IMF and the EU always hesitate to save us by offering us billions, from their woes, to spend well.
Indeed, even before this official IMF confession, and almost from the beginning of our hostage of the Troika, a bunch of books and articles by economists from Greece and foreign - and not without exception - saw the light of publicity with in-depth evidence and extensive references and analyzes, about this infrequent crime against Greece.
These findings were also accompanied by the necessary and plausible explanations of why Greece, in order not to risk the EU, was deemed necessary to lead to the hell of the IMF. And yet how and why it had to be swallowed, beforehand, by its deficit, in order for its introduction to the IMF to be necessary.At the same time, since the beginning of the crisis, it was proposed by economists, and additional but less lethal ways from the Memoranda, in order to address the problem of Greek debt.
Ways, which, unlike the memorandums, were hoping that they would not destroy our homeland. Unfortunately, however, the Greeks responsible for all but the memorandum governments, economists and non-economists, having previously read or not read the criminal content of the memoranda, regarded them as a one-way street, and ignored the parallel salvation proposals of the country.
Without themselves wanting to realize the stalemate in which they were leading Greece, these timeless officials, they have always appeared highly inventive in argumentation to support, apply or even preach this supposedly one-way course of memorial misery, but also to defend the supposed viability of a highly unsustainable debt.
The lost chance of debt restructuring
With these erroneous beliefs, and while there was still time for a rescue debt rescue, it was rejected by a series of totally unfounded and frivolous arguments. And when this restructuring was finally decided, it was not only no longer beneficial to Greece, but it also destroyed a lot of public funds.
On the IMF and the EU side, this fatal delay in restructuring was, of course, aimed at ensuring that the European banks that were at risk were given the time to get rid of Greek bonds. It is now a common testimony that this debt restructuring lag was the tombstone of Greece. However, in about ten of these martyrtic years for Greece, officials within and outside did not stop seeing growth coming, and foreign investment flocking to the country.
On the contrary, in these ten years, those responsible for our fortunes, inside and outside the country, did not manage to see that debt, despite the bloody sacrifices of the people, was climbing indefinitely in relative and absolute terms. They were concerned about the unemployment and poverty that had flooded the country while GDP was down 26%. They closed their eyes to the fact that the public property was gradually devoured by the satanic fund, the creation of which they themselves had accepted.
At the same time, many students fainted in schools from starvation while the number of suicides from desperation grew with geometrical progress and our youngsters left thousands of Greece, etc., and of course, no importance was given to those of us who were screaming and despair of the alarm, proving irrefutable proof of the impossibility of the memorandums and of the inevitable destruction the country was undergoing.
Early IMF warnings
Let me recall, at this point, a very important event, which has probably been forgotten, because it has never been relevant. I am referring to the fact that it was not the first time that the IMF acknowledged the contents of the memorandums that were wrong and destructive for Greece. On the contrary, on January 3, 2013, the then chief economist of the IMF, Olivier Blanchard, has already made a rather extensive reference to the impasse strategy of the wrong Greek memorandums. Meanwhile, similar warnings have been issued by former IMF Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, by OECD economist Reza Lahidi and others.
On 12 March 2006, the French newspaper Le Monde published my article entitled " The IMF error - a forbidden debate, " in which I mention, among other things, my surprise about the fact that "no leaf was shaken" clear statements by the then IMF chief and other top economists. On the contrary, all kinds of officers continued to underestimate their devastating work, as if nothing had happened, the endless discussions about the measures that supposedly had to be applied to our salvation continued uninterrupted to fully meet the troubling demands of the troika.
And in related journalists' questions about the IMF's error, this fatal error at the expense of the lives of millions of Greeks, our own respondents replied that they "did not know anything about it" while continuing to devote themselves to the execution of the troika mandates they finished Greece.
Explanation of the inexplicable
I am unable to give some explanation for this inconceivable behavior of the Greek officials, since, of course, they knew from the beginning that the application of the memorandums had no way out. It was impossible to ignore it, given the timely statement of Olivier Blanchard. As, of course, they also knew that debt was not sustainable, and that growth was a dream of a summer night.
Of course, it would no longer be worthwhile to shuffle the details of this dark past, as well as any sort of search for responsibilities, now that everything has been destroyed and even sold out to Macedonia if the IMF did not put it all over again, quite recently , the error of the memoranda.
Indeed, there is something new on the Greek horizon, which seems hopeful if we handle it properly. This is precisely the official IMF confession, which has just been made recently, and which refers to the crime committed against a whole people, a member of the EU and a nation, for ten whole years. And this confession coincides with the emergence in power of a new Greek government.
I think, and I suppose, I express the majority of our compatriots, that is, it is understood that our new government has a duty to react directly to this official IMF confession although there is no case history that has obliged the IMF to pay compensation to its victims . Beyond that, even though there can be no representative amount of compensation that equates to knowingly destroying a whole country.
However, even for the price of arms, the new government would have to demand compensation, with the main reason that Greece was used as a test animal to save the banks. And, on this occasion, we should still talk about the return of the occupied and turbulent German loan, for which our German friends have been complaining about ... .75 years or so! But, however, they consider it appropriate to strangle their EU partner, so that their banks will not lose even one euro.
Will the new government be unwilling if ....
It is understood that our new government, if it finally proceeded to this move, having all the rights on its side, would have at its side the whole of the Greek people, who was battered by the European experiments, against it. And then, this new Greek government would be really lively. But will it decide to do so, or even this IMF confession about its infrequent crime, will continue to be considered a forbidden debate, like all the previous ones?
Finally, to express my concern about the reasons that have prompted the IMF to do now, but also in 2013, to make revelations about the Klettan, against Greece, as I am unclear at the moment. I do not believe, however, that the IMF suddenly caught up with remorse, considering, in addition, what Yanis Varoufakis describes in his book about the incidents in Greece during his days.
She went on to Lagarde to protest the memorandums, which instead of saving destroy Greece. And she replied: " This has been known for a long time, but we have gone so far that it is no longer possible to return ." And because everything is finally revealed, I expect it will come out in the light of day and what exactly happened with the deficit of Greece, so that overnight, loaded with additional units, to justify the country's entry into the IMF.
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