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We are experiencing the opposite of 2015. Back then Alexis Tsipras, the leftist prime minister, enjoyed a great deal of support at home, but the same could hardly be said about his popularity outside Greece. It's the opposite today.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel made no secret of this during her two-day visit to Athens, in public as well as behind closed doors.

Merkel views Tsipras as a very adept politician always capable of pulling off a political stunt to turn the tables, as he did after the 2015 bailout referendum.

The two leaders have developed a relationship of trust that is bolstered by the relief prompted by the sense that the Greek headache is finally off the European radar.

Meanwhile in the United States, the handful of people who make decisions on Greek matters proclaim their backing of Tsipras.

It is important for them that whereas past...

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