Greece: Such an over-armed country needs no solidarity

Bailing out Greece? = Start with Disarmament!

(Letter to the Editors)

The Greece-backing article of Ms Nerger in the HamS of 23 May, p. 21 fails to present an important fact. By no means - as always if the top decision makers have failed - the bankruptcy of Greece is hard for the poor people and the masterminders of the current Greek crisis can easily detected in the mud of corruption, tax evasion and deficit spending in this country.

  

But what makes me much more angry and what is far too little known in the public: the horrible militarization of Greece. Having just a mere population number of the state of Baden-Würtemberg Greece has an army of uncredibly 150.000 (jobless) soldiers for decades now. And in addition via continuous arms imports (Greece ranks on number 5 of all arms importers worldwide) Greece has established a horrendeous military potential, spending every year about 7 billion euro for its miliary -  far too much.

Greece pretends as if it is threatened every minute by an invasion from everyody. That is absolute crazy even for a person like me who is in favor for Greece.
 

With a substantial disarmament and demilitarization Greece would be able to rescue its state finances instead of being bailed out by foreign tax payers. Why does that not happen and why is the German government too coward to make pressure against the establishment in Athens? The issue is not "German neutrality" as Ms Dommach demands in the article above but a substantial rescue politic by the Greek government.