Have A Little Faith In Blotto

[Raúl Ilargi Meijer]

DPC Jai alai hall, Havana, Cuba 1904 What, Greece again? Sorry!! But I see a lot of things flash by that make me want to say something. Today it’s the
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[Ken Barrows]

Well written article. But where does Syriza want the Greek people to be? Lifting them out of misery would have almost unanimous agreement. However, I wonder if the new Greek government thinks Greece can enjoy the lifestyle its people did in 2007.

[Greenpa]

I don’t see him (from this vast distance) as an academic. He’s something else; something a great deal more. I don’t know more than maybe one academic who would have the smarts and guts to keep coming to their gunfights – in shorts and a t shirt, so to speak, armed with a watermelon. That watermelon has them totally freaking out; and it looks like he both knows what he’s doing; and cares about it. All the pundits who want to advise and second guess him – are not in his league. Not even close. If he can stay alive; it’s going to be interesting. Speaking as someone whose US Senator was killed in an unexplained – and basically uninvestigated – plane crash.

[mr.mud]

Syriza is bobbing, weaving and trying to open new fronts but that isn’t a strategy, it’s perhaps a good tactic to keep ’em guessing until the last moment while working behind the media glare to build a solution.

One winning solution was In the old nursery rhyme where the smart pig builds his house out of bricks to stay safe from the wolf.

It’s still valid with a bitta tweaking. Now its the 4 PIGS [Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain] who should build their home’s using BRICS to keep them safe from the wolves of Wall St.

[John Day]

Hi Greenpa,
Gotcha on the Paul Wellstone reference.
It was determined to be another murder-suicide, wasn’t it? (Bad joke, but you know what I mean.)
Varoufakis says he wants the best deal for all the citizens of Europe, and I believe him.
Having a deep insight into game theory, he will see that the best overall solution for the majority is something which can be sold, will have good political appeal, and will be terribly prone to sabotage for parties seeking a little gain, at a huge loss for most others.
He first has to sell it to exactly those parties who assume that they will get a gain, while others lose. Perhaps he has a plan which they look at and think, “that will sell well, and I see just how to turn it to my benefit”.
Widespread debt jubilee is in the interests of all, and those who run the game would naturally expect to profit greatly from assymetries in debt forgiveness/repudiation.
He may be 2 moves farther into this game than somebody like Osborne or Draghi.
We may see what he has to offer. I hope he lives that long, lives to sell the new game to the current players, then survives the announcement of the trick which forces actual compliance.

[Glennda]

These guys, Yanis and Alexis, are doing a great job with the EU and their strategy.

So who is home minding the store? That is where the improvements of life will happen. Re-hiring, higher wages, no barricades, rolling back austerity – they must have some good folks doing all that while they fight on 2 fronts in the EU. What other fronts are they working on? Diplomats to the BRICS? and?

[V. Arnold]

So my take is tone it down a tad on your opinions – after 10 days – of what Yanis and Alexis should or should not do. See, I don’t see Yanis Varoufakis as someone who would come unprepared. I think for one thing the fact that he doesn’t come all dressed up to the nines for meetings with Osborne et al says he did prepare. You can just feel the likes of Osborne go: how come HE doesn’t have to wear the stiff stuff?

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Excellent, agreed…

[Birdshak]

Zorba the Greek. Don’t get no better’n that!

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