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1. Not much of a bargaining chip as a long-standing

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Wed Jan 28, 2015, 12:57 PM

Jan 2015

affinity between the far-left in Greece and the government in Moscow, dating back to the fall of Constantinople. It's more tribal than ideological, given that Putin is far, far more rightwing than any member of the much-despised (by Syriza) EU and NATO.

Tsipras, who wants to disband NATO or at least withdraw Greece from NATO, will never support anything remotely critical of Russia, so nothing to bargain over.

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