"I'm also not sure if it is the best strategy for Greece to bite the hand (EU as the IWF is just the beginning) who transfered billions of $ to Greece over the last decades."

No one gives away any amount of mouney, let alone billions of them. I think you should inform yourself better before forming an opinion.

>Perhaps with the new Russian conflict they could trade in EU subsidies and wealth transfer to renting bases to Russia. But they will find out it's much harder to break a 100 year contract for a Russian base in Greece than a contract with the IWF.

It isn't a base currently, it is natural gas pipeline ("New Blue Stream"). Bolgaria - under pressure from US/EU - has recently refused "South Stream" and thus Russia's acute need for new way into Europe met Greece's souring relationship with EU. And yes, gas pipeline is a contract which is pretty hard to break.

Problem is the Greek bailout was actually a bailout of the German and French banks who lent Greece money.

The EU sacrificed Greece to save their own skins

https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/thomas-fazi...

If for no other reason but to tighten their grip on their own national minorities. The Basques and Catalans would have a viable case for independence if they could be EU members and most Western nations are founded on the principle of self-determination. Should Spain continue on its present course of denying self-determination to the Basque Country and Catalonia, they will reject the basic values that the EU is founded upon.

I'm not necessarily saying this as an advocate of Basque or Catalan independence. That is a question for the Basque and Catalan people. But a modern, moral, Western country would at least allow a binding referendum, as the UK has done in Scotland and as Canada did in Quebec. If Catalonia has a referendum and they choose to stay part of Spain, that is their choice. But the Spanish government refuses to grant them that choice.