That would imply that he had a choice between that and an alternative course of action that did not facilitate the neo-liberal agenda. I question that assumption. I think that when the capital and its sycophantic jurnos cry TINA - unfortunately they are telling us the truth. The capital is all powerful at the moment and there are no signs of any force that can effectively counterbalance that influence. I hope this will change in my life time, but for now no politician, even a powerful one, can stand in the way of the running capitalist locomotive.
Wojtek