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Schäuble's Grexit Offer

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Wolfgang Schäuble offered Varoufakis a billion euros to implement his digital currency plan, revealing that Brussels secretly wanted Greece to leave (Grexit) to teach the left a lesson through chaos and hunger.

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“Schäuble's answer? 'Fine, how much we can give you billion to do it'... Brussels was not aware of Grexit, secretly they looked for it.”
“he actively wanted Grexit everything was set in plan let Greek have their Grexit it would be humanitarian catastrophe chaos maybe military power”

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Wolfgang Schäuble offered Varoufakis a billion euros to implement his digital currency plan, revealing that Brussels secretly wanted Greece to leave (Grexit) to teach the left a lesson through chaos and hunger., illustrating geopolitics-war,ideology
Žižek reports that political friends close to Wolfgang Schäuble reveal he actively wanted Greece to exit the Euro, everything was prepared, so the catastrophe would teach the European left a lesson for a generation., illustrating Syriza,European capitalism,political strategy