>>Why? Because "if banks fail, some percentage of economy will also fail". Well, we bailed the banks out, and some percentage of economy still failed. In case of Greece, that percentage is about 20-30 at least (and don't know about other countries, just know how many places I've seen where shops are closing - in all the places I've been since 2008). I'd say that if banks were spayed, the percentage would be less, and we may even have growth.
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>>Let them fall. They shouldn't be a sacred cow.
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>Would you feel comfortable having mr Putin expand his influence en perhaps a military presence in Greece? The money is really not too much of a concern, even though that is what you hear on in the media, its this willingness of greece to reform. And what if we kick them out? What are the geo-political consequences? Do you really want to see them having an alliance with Putin? If we still do, I do not think it is even cheaper everyone has to take their full losses at once, which certainly will have an immediate effect on the capability of other countries like Italy, Spain, Ireland and to some degree France to loan money.
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>Somehow I feel more confortable to be stuck with them, rather to lose them to the enemy.

I don't see Russia as such an enemy as the western media paint it for the last dozen years (i.e. ever since they lost that drunken idiot Jeljcin (Yeltsin), who knew the correct answer to the old question "who owns your oil"). I'd rather have them have something and strike some balance.

We have a proverb "pretty lamb sucks two sheep"... which SFRY was doing successfully for a number of years, playing then USSR against the west and somehow managing to stay in good relations with both. If Greece is playing that card, I wish them good luck with that, it's not an easy game to win.

And, BTW, I'm not comfortable with anyone having a military presence anywhere except within their own borders.