In this cartoon from The Daily Telegraph, Christian Adams uses the 'going off a cliff' metaphor (see here, here, and here for other examples) to comment on Germany's changing attitude to the Greek debt crisis.
In the top two panels, German Chancellor Angela Merkel tries to warn Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos that he is walking towards the cliff edge. Merkel seems genuinely alarmed. However, when Papademos carries on walking on air rather than plunging into the void, Merkel becomes impatient and starts looking at her watch, waiting for him to fall.
The message seems to be that after trying to save Greece from disaster with the carrot and stick approach of bailouts and austerity measures, Germany has now accepted the inevitable: that Greece is a lost cause and it is only a matter of time before its economy crashes.
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