When I saw this story about Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet "Old" Yellen shrieking that the sky will fall - all except for the U.S., of course! - if the Greek commies welsh on their mountain range of German bank debt, I had two reactions: (1) Oh, hell, Yellen is going to endorse Bernie Sanders for president; and (2) so what? The entire planetary economy isn't going to come crashing down over Greece. That's the Euros' problem, since they were daft enough to bail out the freeloaders in Athens multiple times. Besides, we are in worse debt trouble, both proportionately and in absolute terms, than the Greeks could ever conceive of. Compared to Barack Obama, Alexis Tsipras is a paragon of fiscal probity.
Then Ace connected this particular dot:
Remember what inspired the promulgation of the Truman Doctrine? The Soviet-allied communist attempt to take over....Greece.
Looks like Czar Vlad may be scouting out both his Aegean Sea dacha and the sites for several new Russian Mediterranean naval bases at the same time.
Perhaps even after the German cave on yet another Greek bailout.
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