Varoufakis wins Grexit referendum resigns Tsipras finance ministry

Rock star wins referendum – Gets game ejection

BY KYLE ANDREW BROWN

WASHINGTON, July 6 – Oh, to be able to understand Greek! It must have been quite the heady press conference Yanis Varoufakis gave out on Sunday after the Referendum votes were counted. Whatever choice words Yanis chose to ream out the Euro Group finance ministers must make for a delicious read.

In last week’s Bloomberg News interview we saw the awesome verbal skill and analytical gymnastics Yanis is gifted with for both simplifying what the Brussels careerists would deem too complicated.  And his remarkable ability to stay on message even as journo Erik Schatzker  battered Yanis with rapid fire questions hoping to corner him.

By the end of the interview Erik was vanquished. What started out as an in your face let me smack you down set of questions reduced the journo to freshman student taking copious notes of every little word the Business School Dean uttered.

Awesomely constructed – having the intuitive philosophical logic that only a pleb coming out of Greece can master.

Clearly the rock star this Yanis Varoufakus.

The brief that Alexis Tsipras handed to his Finance Minister included the keys to the Acedemy. In this case the hollowed lyceum grounds of the European Union’s big shots in Brussels. They all played Yanis – as they continue to play Alexis. 

Angela Merkel and Christine Lagarde and the Brussels big shots they like to sit the Greek boys from the olive orchards down at the little round table to chit chat like we’re all mates.

“Hey! Let’s take a break and do a quick photo op out in the foyer!”

The little guys – this being Alexis and Yanis – they have been led to believe they just might be in the Club.

That being the Club where Christine Lagarde just happens to have the private phone numbers of every president and prime minister in the world.

And here’e the other deal about the Club. Unless you been on the inside cutting the big deals with these guys and know where all the skeletons are buried – you’re not in the Club.

And you never gonna be.

Christine Lagarde has had no difficulty playing out the role of being Angela Merkel’s French poodle. Christine may be justa  a fancy pants bean counter – but she also collects those IOUs.

Big time IOUs.

And here’s the deal: Yanis and Alexis – they got no IOUs to give to the Christine Lagarde’s of this world.

And here is where Yanis Varoufakis has stumbled:  We all know the false confidence that comes with having access to the Club. Once you walk through those corridors of plush carpet you can actually come to imagine you have the all powers the ordinary folk below deck is made to believe resides up here.

But this is not how power works.

Power is all about the forging of personal relationships and acting on the knowledge that only institutional memory and secret handshakes provide.

It’s not enough that Alexis and Yanis have exposed the emptiness of nationhood that the European Union tries to flog on everybody by planting the blue and gold flag into every European government office and prime minister’s photo op.

It is not enough that the European Union is shown to be just a financial juggernaut that passes all of Europe’s wealth through the German euro.

The way the Germans at the European Union have been playing the Greek country boys demonstrates this one important dynamic: The Troika, Angela Merkel and Christine Lagarde they don’t give a hoot about the Greeks and their sniveling about pocket change.

This is all just school yard bullying to them. 

They all have just been dancing around the boys from Greece to keep them from spilling their confusion about the European Union onto the Southern provinces.

The bottom line in the Troika’s negotiations with Athens is to keep the unemployed youth and the going nowhere working class from fleeing the country –  storming the member states looking for benefits and work.

And that is why – this Monday morning – the German finance minister he says: Let’s throw Athens another bridge loan!

Because – 

Bridge loans are all about keeping Greece what it actually already is – Germany’s little provincial Debtor’s Colony.