Writingstationhub Writingstationhub asked Arun D. Ellis:

Hello, I have just downloaded Corpalism hope to read it very soon, on a different note scary what is happening with greece but i think they need to break free of the austerity blackhole, what are your thoughts on it?.

Arun D. Ellis Hi Simon, hope you enjoy the book, re your question - It seems to me that Greece is pretty much damned if she does and damned if she doesn't, if Greece leaves the EU then the EU will also suffer pain and Greece will become a poor backwater that is unless the Russians step in as a white knight, unlikely in the current climate. If Greece stays in the EU and meets the austerity requirements there will be bloody revolution as they don't have much to lose anymore. Either way her survival is seriously in question.

Personally I think there's a bigger game in play here and Greece is merely the lever to apply the pressure. To me it feels like an attack on the European Central Bank, the Euro and the structure of the union itself. I can't help feeling that the rising economic pressure on Greece is designed to force a closer economic union of the EU, a move away from the current structure of independent countries with a single currency towards a single country with a single currency, a complete United States of Europe.

The question I'm wrestling with is where would that pressure come from and who gains?

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