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"If you have to take an onerous deal against your people with your enemies, better die by their sword" - Stefan the Great


I agree with Ștefan (and with the lessons that history provides), but I have to disagree with the context in which this is put. We were talking about Europe here (well, the Eurozone part of it, which is nothing but a level of integration), where we talk about "us" on a broad (unional) level, about solving problems that we all have in our court. The next thing you know is a shift in prospective, where "us" got restricted on a national level (guess why and on who's interest), and now the rest of what was formerly "(the non-Greek part of European) us" you count as "enemies". Maybe we are more different than we wanted to admit, and we may have to work harder for what makes us "us (in an acceptable formula)", but we are not enemies.




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