{"id":183204,"date":"2015-01-26T23:26:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T04:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/26\/btw-those-people-saying-that-greece-has-no-leverage-its-bullsh\/"},"modified":"2015-01-26T23:26:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T04:26:00","slug":"btw-those-people-saying-that-greece-has-no-leverage-its-bullsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/26\/btw-those-people-saying-that-greece-has-no-leverage-its-bullsh\/","title":{"rendered":"BTW, Those People Saying that Greece has no Leverage?  It&#8217;s Bullsh%$"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greece, the only Eastern Orthodox Christian nation in the Eurozone, has a number of close cultural ties to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, Russian tourism, which has been hurt by sanctions, is a big part of their economy.<\/p>\n<p>It is not in Greece&#8217;s national interest to extend the sanctions, and I expect the new PM, and whoever ends up his Foreign Minister are likely to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2015-01-14\/syriza-massages-foreign-policy-goals-as-it-smells-power.html\">make this clear on any negotiations with the ECB and EU<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The first test for Syriza would be its stance toward European sanctions on Russia. EU measures including curbs on financing for Russian state-owned banks and a ban on the export of sophisticated energy-exploration equipment will lapse in July unless renewed unanimously by the 28 EU governments. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>July is the same deadline for the continuation for Greece&#8217;s bailout.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure that Greece could get a decent deal from Russia if it voted against sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>Smells like leverage to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greece, the only Eastern Orthodox Christian nation in the Eurozone, has a number of close cultural ties to Russia. What&#8217;s more, Russian tourism, which has been hurt by sanctions, is a big part of their economy. It is not in Greece&#8217;s national interest to extend the sanctions, and I expect the new PM, and whoever &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[973,984,964,1033,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-russia","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}