Making the Greeks feel like a strange alley cat at a dust bin...

"Greece is no longer the miserable partner who listens to lectures to do its homework. Greece has its own voice". Greek Prime minister Alexis Tsipras 

Note: This is a fictionalized parallelism  of the weak nation state seeking assistance...

When a new, hungry cat comes  to seek remnant morsels from a dustbin, existing alley cats who are a group with respective food market shares already allocated through respective bargaining powers, attack the new cat with a view to frighten it away. 

A new intruder is likely to lessen the food share of extant dustbin cats. So the new cat has to be made to go away, to be driven away, run away scared , so that food quotas structure is not altered. 

Essentially, this is animal instinct - which is to determine food share by means of respective powers or  of strength among the cats. If the new cat is a body-built, heavyweight one, the other cats protest through meaningless whimpers. They then look away more in fear than in acceptance. Retreating is diplomacy. 

The new cat may try courting with some of those food owner cats on top of the dustbins. This efforts are motivated by the need to augment its bargaining power. These may assume the format of visits to build new friendships.

However, if the new cat is weak, there is quite a bit of bullying. The cats send out signals of  displeasure. There are indifferent cats waiting to see how things evolve or actively pounce on new kid. 

The strongest cat sits atop the bin , may be with closed closed eyes. He is in yogic cat posture. He might just open to see how the new cat on the block reacts to his minions attacks also called purring. The big cat is least bothered ; he would prefer to warm himself in this warm sun. However, his minions are active. 

If the attack is ferocious, the new hungry cat has to withdraw. Seek other dustbins or return another time when the market leaders are away.  Or nibble at the leftovers with the dustbin leaders looking away. In any case, the compromise has to be at the others' terms. He is too hungry to refuse terms; he is too emaciated to fight. 

"There is a great man who makes every man feel  small. But the real great  is the man who makes every man feel great." (Charles Dickens? /G.K  Chesterton?)

ECB and Germany may like to re-read that quote.

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