"Nothing sinister" about taking advantage of crisis

Says Michael Pascoe:

"As Niccolo Machiavelli once more-or-less advised, you don’t want to waste a good crisis. Angela Merkel isn’t. And if that means a highly dangerous game of brinkmanship for months to come, sobeit if Germany achieves control of Europe.

There is nothing necessarily sinister about that. If Merkel’s plan to force European fiscal union – the necessary missing ingredient to sustain Europe’s half-baked monetary union – happens to result in Germany effectively dominating proceedings, well, who better? Or perhaps: who else?"

Government's don't innocently take advantage of crises, they create them, blame them on others, present a solution to an ignorant public, and then institute that policy, which is what they wanted in the first place (but couldn't get public support for). Never-endingly increasing their control and destroying the market economy.