Two Hearts Beating as One

Two Hearts Beating as One

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

Winston Churchill

By: Erreh Svaia

You can really tell that German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras are going to really hardcore times in their political careers, no matter how different are their origins and sides at the negotiation table, they are somehow facing very similar situations at this precise moment in the eye of the Greek storm and struggling to keep the E.U. together in the middle of what might be its most acute crisis.

Tsipras most be at the moment one of the most repudiated politicians outside and inside Greece (some of the most extremist fractions even calling him “the anti-Christ”) as his lack of experience and inflexible ideology took Greece and the rest of the European Union through very complicated situations, Tsipras called for a referendum in order to strengthen his position against the E.U. finally gave up accepting even harsher conditions than the ones Greece had, before he assumed as Prime Minister, in a way, it was a very misfortunate process that put Tsipras against Europe, even sided with Russia and China, and against Germany, against his own party, SYRIZA, against his finance minister, the hard edged Yanis Varoufakis, and against his own people who voted him on the promise that he would end the European Union austerity impositions.

Tsipras luck was that of the populist who rise thanks to the vote of the people, but ends up repudiated and crushed by the unbearable weight of their impossible to achieve promises, but one thing we must recognize and thank Tsipras, that is that at least he didn't walked the path many desperate populist perversely follow in other to fulfill some of their promises, to auction their country sovereignty, a sad event for Mr. Putin, who must be eager to find a way to expand the limits of his anti E.U. project, and in a symbolic way unleash his charge against precisely the very origin of al western culture.

While in Germany, Angela Merkel was exposed to a very similar stressful situation, as she had to accept major damage to her political career by somehow defending the integrity of the E.U. from angry German investors who wanted Greece out, Merkel mission was to warn Germany  and the rest of the Union of a tragic scenario of dissolution, as investors demanded punishment against Greece, Merkel fought hard in order to keep the Union together, alienating in the process even the German population as they saw their money leaving the country in order to be lent to Greece once more in the knowledge that it is almost impossible that the debt would be paid one day, and that current events in Greece are consequences of bad financial policies.

Now both Merkel and Tsipras may appear to be ostracized from their own people, from their political parties and their political future may look in peril, with their strength diminished and depleted, the big difference here, lies in the fact that Tsipras will be very bad treated historically speaking, his name will always have a bad connotation tied to it, and tying him to the hall of populist failures, and that is hard to overcome, while Merkel although she will be weakened by the event, among accusations of being cruel and ruthless, in the future she will be remembered as the iron lady who keep together a controversial and complex project devoted to keeping Europe in peace, and in the end time will do her justice.