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>> I think we have passed the point-of-no-return.

Greece perspective on Grand scale

- It's mostly Europe's fault, but Greece isn't blameless
As an EU member, it was required to limit its deficits to 3 percent of GDP and its debt to 60 percent of GDP. But Greece enlisted banks like Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase to evade those rules and borrow money under the radar to enable more spending. Goldman Sachs helped mask Greece’s debt
http://www.vox.com/2015/6/30/8867939/greece-economic-crisis
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2012/02/21/how-goldman-sachs-helped-mask-greeces-debt/
Anyway, name calling is useless, German is aiming on a multi-polar world [reference 1]

- Greece is the “Caecum” that can “coexist” with EU participants peacefully. when “Appendicitis” shows up, it needs to cut off without further catastrophe. The "cut off" is not the End for EU, it is the beginning of a new chapter. As described in reference 1, A "strong Europe cluster" can work with BRICs nicely whether EURO will survive or not.

- The USD is the “beneficiary” on Europe’s calamity. Since the EURO is a serious competitor to Dollar’s hegemony, when Greece saga has no further “usage”, Someone will make a new hot spot or peel off the old wound where he made it before. Furthermore, even Yuan is not freely traded, Someone want to “depress” it, [reference 2], That strategy is “hoist with his own petard”, as matter of time, lead to an incurable exhaustion. not because of someone is under the Capitalism or Socialism or Exceptionalism or whatever-ism, “no Zuo no die”.

“no Zuo no die”: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=no+zuo+no+die

[reference]

(1) What The BRICS Plus Germany Are Really Up To?
Posted on March 5, 2015 By Pepe Escobar
https://counterinformation.wordpress.com/2015/03/05/what-the-brics-plus-germany-are-really-up-to/
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41131.htm


(2)
(2.a) Revising U.S. Grand Strategy Toward China
Authors: Robert D. Blackwill
Blackwill and Tellis recommend that Washington do the following:
http://www.cfr.org/china/revising-us-grand-strategy-toward-china/p36371

Revitalize the U.S. economy
"Nothing would better promote the United States' strategic future and grand strategy toward China than robust economic growth…This must be the first priority of the president and Congress."

(2.b) Revising U.S. Grand Strategy Toward China
Council Special Report No. 72
March 2015 Robert D. Blackwill and Ashley J. Tellis

http://carnegieendowment.org/files/Tellis_Blackwill.pdf

(Page 5): Even as China’s overall gross domestic product (GDP) growth slows considerably in the future, its relative growth rates are likely to be higher than those of the United States for the foreseeable future, thus making the need to balance its rising power important. Only a fundamental collapse of the Chinese state would free Washington from the obligation of systematically balancing Beijing, because even the alternative of a modest Chinese stumble would not eliminate the dangers presented to the United States in Asia and beyond.

(2.c)
The National Military Strategy of the United States of America
2015
http://news.usni.org/2015/07/02/document-2015-u-s-national-military-strategy

page 5: This 2015 National Military Strategy addresses the need to counter revisionist states that are challenging international norms as well as violent extremist organizations (VEOs) that are undermining trans-regional security. We are working with allies and partners to deter, deny, and when necessary defeat potential state adversaries. Concurrently, we are leading multiple coalition efforts to disrupt, degrade, and defeat VEOs. Central to these efforts is strengthening our global network of allies and partners. This integrated strategy requires us to conduct synchronized operations around the globe, implement institutional reforms at home, and sustain the capabilities, capacity, and readiness required to prevail in conflicts that may differ significantly in scope, scale, and duration


(2.d) Pentagon Concludes America Not Safe Unless It Conquers The World — Paul Craig Roberts
July 10, 2015

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/07/10/pentagon-concludes-america-safe-unless-conquers-world-paul-craig-roberts-3/

The Pentagon has released its “National Military Strategy of the United States of America 2015,” June 2015. http://news.usni.org/2015/07/02/document-2015-u-s-national-military-strategy
The document announces a shift in focus from terrorists to “state actors” that “are challenging international norms.” It is important to understand what these words mean. Governments that challenge international norms are sovereign countries that pursue policies independently of Washington’s policies. These “revisionist states” are threats, not because they plan to attack the US, which the Pentagon admits neither Russia nor China intend, but because they are independent. In other words, the norm is dependence on Washington.