In the oval hall of the Richelieu Library, among the sixteen cities representing civilization, Florence stood between Athens and George Washington.
Both Florence and Athens represented freedom and democracy. But George Washington had seized the opportunity of Greece lighting the Olympic flame to not only ignite Greece's debt crisis, but drag the entire Eurozone down for a thorough bloodletting.
They had already completed their setup. Now they only had to wait for the right moment, for Greece's debt to grow larger and larger like a tumor. The Germans, driven by the desire to unite the European Union against America, would not casually kick Greece out of the European Union either.
In essence, this method was no different from Viking piracy. The Vikings killed and set fires themselves; under this civilized method, however, the people of the victimized country became the ones responsible for smashing things and setting fires.
What did it accomplish for them to vent their anger and overthrow the existing government?
The debts still had to be repaid. The Germans' good credit came not only from their developed industry, but also from their diligent repayment of World War I and World War II reparations. The enormous reparations after World War I were directly connected to World War II. Europe had been devastated by World War II, yet the victorious nations had not squeezed Germany as mercilessly as they did after World War I. If they pushed them too far and another Hitler came to power, would they start another world war and destroy everything that had taken so many years to build?
America did not care. With the Atlantic Ocean between them, they were the textbook definition of watching a fire from across the river. Refugees could not swim across anyway, and it seemed that apart from an