Tsipras rattled his sabre until it was blunt – and for what?

Five months of brinkmanship has caused untold damage to the Greek economy for no purpose whatsoever

Part tragedy. Part farce. No happy ending. The final stages of the Greek drama have begun.

The tragedy is that there is no end in sight to the suffering of the Greek people. They have seen their country's economy shrink by 25% in five years and it was already back in recession when the banks closed their doors two weeks ago.