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Greece is running out of cash each passing day while its chances of reaching an agreement with the creditors by the end of April are minimal, it is, therefore, very likely that the country will be unable to pay its obligations to the creditors and default.

The government keeps blaring forth that it is doing everything possible to agree with its European partners, but it is actually opposing any idea of ​​reforms. Meanwhile, the ministers are adopting, one after another, decisions that push the economy decades back.

According to analyst Kostas Stoupas this process cannot last long for the simple reason that when the government will not be able to pay salaries and pensions, it will collapse and, with it, the overall structure of the clientelist system that has been built over the past 40 years and which, in his analysis in the online economic edition capital.gr, he compares with the Soviet republics.

"The government of SYRIZA will bring Greece to the greatest disaster since the war.

In particular, it will round off the biggest disaster conditions that the governments of PASOK and New Democracy have created in recent decades.

The government of SYRIZA replaces the clientelist party state created by PASOK and New Democracy with a more concentrated and closer clientelistic party state of trade unionists.

It is known that, in recent decades, it was not the leaderships appointed by the state government that administered the public services and companies but the timeless and cross-party trade unions.

SYRIZA closes the circle of this particular governance, formally appointing trade unionists in managerial positions.

A recent indicative example is the case of the 13 regional directors of education, all of whom are members of the trade unionist party apparatus that is close to SYRIZA and Independent Greeks.

However, democracies thrive when the protection of public interest is their focus, not that of trade unionists. Public interest means the interest of the whole society or at least of a larger part of it.

A trade unionist is unable to represent the general interest of society, simply because the word unionist means a person who represents the interests of a particular group.

When the partial interest becomes general, collapse is just a matter of time. The only way for the dominance of the partial interest to survive is dictatorship. These are unknown verses of knowledge for a government of the "crazy" left wing, although they have been known for at least 2500 years. And it is because the very concept and functioning of democracy are unknown to this government.

The regional directors of education are a typical element of the government's policy that follows the same or similar criteria in all other sectors.

The results of the first two months confirm the initial assessment that, in its worst crisis since the end of the war, Greece is governed by the worst possible government in terms of targeting and elementary management capacity.

Greece continues to be the last regime in the Balkans and Europe where the institutions resemble those of the Soviet republics that collapsed in the early 1990s. It is clear that Greece will collapse as happened with Bulgaria and Romania with similar consequences for it.

Collapse ...

The collapse of what has been left standing in the Greek economy over the past two months from the whirlwind of statism in recent decades  will become apparent in the summer and the consequences will be explosive for politics and society.

The collapse will not only affect the economy but most sectors of the political and social organization.

Mr. Panousis (Deputy Minister of Public Order and Citizens Protection - author’s note) seeks the intervention of the Prime Minister to be allowed to impose law and order.

Minister for Migration (Tassia Christodoulopoulou - author’s note) calls all new arrivals ''refugees'' and claims that they are basking in Omonia Square, while homeless and unemployed foreigners who have illegally entered the country are in fact conquering again the entire centre of Athens.

Mr. Dragasakis (Deputy Prime Minister and coordinator for the economic policy of the government - author’s note) said during his visit to China that the port of Piraeus would be privatized but a dozen other ministers and representatives of SYRIZA are strongly against that move.

Having refuted his lie with regard to the shown finger, Mr. Varoufakis announced that he would meet with Barack Obama, but the White House refuted him. If confidence is a prerequisite for economic development, the continuous unsuccessful refutations on the part of the Minister are hardly the best way for its recovery.

Mr. Stratoulis (Deputy Minister for Social Security - author’s note) almost every day guarantees the payment, to the last euro, not only of the 13^th pension, but also of all present ones as well as of those that meet all requirements for being received. For a reasonable man, this is impossible in an economy that has 3 million pensioners and 2.5 million private sector employees. Led by ignorance he naively believes that if he imposes 22 new special taxes he will be able to cover the deficit of pensions. It does not even cross his mind that the only thing he will achieve by the imposition of these 22 taxes will be the reduced number of private sector employees from 2.5 million to 1.5 million in a year.

Besides being divided between those ministers who want Greece to remain in the euro zone and those who want it to leave it, the government is torn by many different conflicting objectives.

This paralyzes the economy and together with the "crazy" leftist distortions of reality and parasitic interests of individual groups, this forms an explosive mixture.

This is a government composed primarily of public sector trade unionists from the most parasitic and self-interested group that occurred after the restoration of democratic order in Greece in 1974.

If Greece had some kind of rich natural deposits of oil, gold, etc., from which the state could obtain significant revenue, that government might be able to stay in power longer.

However, Greece has no such deposits and it is therefore just a matter of time for the state to announce its complete inability to pay salaries and pensions, and then there will be chaos. This moment is not so distant.

The most likely scenario is that this year's summer will present us with many surprises ...

And by analogy with writer Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s short summer of anarchy, it will resemble the short summer of the collapse of the Soviet Greek republic..."