“In theory, Russia has 400 billions of reserves and an immense amount of oil it doesn’t really know what to do with right now. Assuming they’d promise Greece their yearly oil imports for free, that would mean 8 billion euros of help for minimum cost. Reopening Russia for greek food exports, making it the only EU partner, would mean another 5 to 10 billions for Greece between direct Greek production (which would mean money going directly to part of Tsipras’ political base:impoverished farmers) and considering that the rest of Eu would re-route through Greece (allowing it to reap some form of transit fee… probably in the form of import-export price spread) and an inflation damper for Russia (and bonus points for Vladimir on the internal front as saviour of the Orthodox brothers).

Appealing.

Besides: how much would be worth for Russia (or China) a vote within the EU Council? or an effective veto power within it on matters that require an unanimous vote?

of course, if anything like this would seem, not even likely, but just possible to happen, Tsipras would probably end up having a strange plane accident on a Russian airport’s tarmac, or something.”