Greeks use 8 billion euros of "bailout" money to buy weapons from Germany, reports Der Spiegel

According to „Der Spiegel“, the Greek government is spending as much as 8 billion euros of its „bailout“ money on buying weapons from Germany.

Bilderberg Greek Prime Minister Giorgos Papandreou has announced plans to buy two additional submaries 213 from Thyssen Krupp Marine Systems, eurofighters as well as Leopard tanks, allegedly as a condition of getting bailout money.

If it is true that the EU, IMF and the banks made purchasing weapons from Germany a condition for getting taxpayer's money, then this is a repeat of the 1930s when Germany’s banks directed capital flows to the Nazi military industrial complex, including the Thyssen Krupp empire, so preparing the country for world war two following a bank-engineered Great Depression.

According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 13 percent of all German arms exports to Greece, and 15 percent go to Greece’s traditional rival, Turkey.

Greece, with a population of 11 million is the world's fifth largest importer of conventional weapons.

The two submarines built ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems cost about 500 million euros each.

170 Leopard 2 A tanks built by Krauss Maffei Wegmann in Munich were ordered in 2002 and will cost Greece about 1.7 billion euros in total.

In 2001, the Greek government also ordered 5-billion euros worth of Eurofighters, but the deal was put on ice in spite of a sales pitch by Germany’s foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle (FDP) when he visited Athens this February.

So Greeks and Germans are having to fund with tax hikes and cuts in pensions and jobs not only the transfer of gigantic sums to the banks in the form of interest payments on
notional debts but also a military build up.


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