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> They protested when they couldn't pay it back.

What I said, they didn't protest when Greece took that money.

That the money given to them was for paying back the debt of Greece against banks is nothing new.

The problem of Greece at that time was not to 'kickstart the Greek economy'. They needed money to survive the weeks and days.



How exactly was it 'needed money to survive the weeks and days' when the vast majority of it went to foreign banks?


Huge debt, huge deficits, No access to money neither from other European countries nor from the private sector, collapse of the Greece banking sector, collapse of Greece economy, exit from the Euro, ...

I doubt Greece wanted to go that route, once it was clear to them what was about to happen. Actually the left wing government had to learn it quickly that semli-democratic decisions about other people's money is worthless, when one needs even more money. And they did.




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