Hugo Dixon : #ThisWasNotACoup – POLITICO

#ThisWasNotACoup – POLITICO

 this was not a coup. It was Alexis Tsipras, not the other European leaders, who rejected the wishes of his people. The others leaders — who, in any case, are responsible to their own people rather than to the Greeks — were resigned to Athens leaving the euro. If Tsipras was humiliated, that was largely his own fault.

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 Tsipras is in a terrible bind largely because he made wild promises he couldn’t keep, was not on top of important detail, wasted time with inflammatory rhetoric and made a series of bad miscalculations. He is not the victim of a coup.