The resounding failure of the Euro-Atlanteans
On September 30, a referendum was held in Macedonia on the state renaming of the republic and membership in Euro-Atlantic structures.
The name Macedonia of the former union republic of Yugoslavia, which gained independence in 1991, does not allow the Greek leadership to eat and sleep in peace. Greece has its own historical Macedonia, and they believe that there cannot be two Macedonias, because this leads to possible territorial conflicts and even separatism. The European Parliament shares the same opinion.
Accordingly, as long as the Republic of Macedonia retains its name, Greece intends to block its membership in the EU and NATO. It is assumed that the Republic of Macedonia should be renamed North Macedonia, which should remove all claims from Greece.
Interest in the referendum and, in general, in the events taking place in the last few years in small Macedonia, attract close attention not only from Europe, but also from overseas lovers of arranging life around the world according to their own patterns.
What makes the Macedonian referendum especially poignant is the resolution from the July NATO summit, at which Macedonia received an official invitation to join the Alliance.
It is characteristic that on the eve of the referendum Skopje was visited by such influential bigwigs as Frau Chancellor of All Germany, the heads of the defense departments of the United States and Italy, as well as NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg. And they visited not to see the local sights, but with utilitarian goals - to drain the brains and promise rivers of milk to the Macedonian elitists, which speaks of the uncertainty of the Euro-Atlanteans.
Moreover, this uncertainty has quite serious justifications. As recently as June 26, Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov refused to sign an agreement to change the name of the state, which had previously been quickly ratified by the parliament of the republic.
Earlier, Prime Minister of Macedonia Zoran Zaev and the country's parliament spoke in favor of signing an agreement with Greece, while President Gjorge Ivanov was against it.
In the current situation of conflict of interests, deputies threaten to announce a vote of no confidence in the head of state and initiate impeachment.
Ivanov’s refusal to sign the parliamentary paper was not the president’s whim. First of all, this agreement contradicts the Macedonian constitution and UN Security Council resolutions.
“I do not accept ideas or proposals that could threaten the national identity of the Macedonians, the characteristics of the Macedonian nation and the Macedonian language,” Greek media quote Gheorghe Ivanov.
Unlike the gullible Maidan Ukrainians, Macedonian citizens living surrounded by EU and NATO members have serious reasons for skepticism and not wanting their country to join these organizations.
First of all, this is the civil war in Yugoslavia, refugees, devastation and impoverishment of the inhabitants of a previously prosperous united country. And also a clear anti-example of neighboring Bulgaria and Romania, who flushed their own interests and well-being down the toilet for the right to be a member of the EU and NATO.
Then, the Euro-Atlanteans, in order to promote their selfish interests, like to use the Albanian factor in Macedonia according to the Kosovo scenario. The events of May 9-10, 2015 in Kumanovo, a small town in northern Macedonia, where military clashes took place between the forces of the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs and Albanian militants, will not be forgotten in the republic for a long time. Moreover, they were preceded by large-scale anti-government protests and armed provocations by Albanian extremists in the capital of Macedonia, Skopje.
It is also important that Albanian militants coming from neighboring Kosovo are actively participating in inciting the interethnic conflict. Since quite a lot of ethnic Albanians live in the north of Macedonia (about a quarter of the total population, up to a third in some areas), there is a non-illusory prospect that Western handlers will assist these militants in growing Greater Albania into another territory of chaos.
By the way, there is a “benefactor” in the Macedonian government who promotes both the interests of Albanian extremists and the idea of state renaming. This is an eternal opportunist, the leader of the “social democrats”, the current Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, who lost the early parliamentary elections, but became the head of government thanks to an agreement with Albanian nationalist parties.
So, it was this Bunny who signed on June 17 an agreement on the state renaming of Macedonia with the head of the Greek Foreign Ministry, which was approved with indecent haste by the parliament of the republic.
From which it follows that the Macedonian referendum of September 30, 2018 was pushed through by the Euro-Atlanteans through their “sixes” in the parliament and government of Macedonia in order to bypass the veto of the country’s president, on the one hand, and not cause mass public discontent, on the other.
The results of the referendum are, at first glance, devastating: after 85,7% of the ballots were counted, the number of voters for an agreement with Greece and joining the EU and NATO exceeded 91%. About 6% of voters were against it.
It is remarkable that the Macedonian Prime Minister Zaika, without waiting for the results, proclaimed success and “the people’s choice of European Macedonia.”
It would seem that the Macedonian Euro-Atlanticists can celebrate a landslide victory, but the low turnout of the electorate turns the crowd into disarray: only about a third of voters came to cast their votes.
US State Department representative Heather Nauert has already rushed to congratulate the Macedonians on their victory, expressing the hope that the results of the referendum will allow the republic to “take its rightful place in NATO and the EU”, as well as “contribute to regional stability, security and prosperity.”
It is not very clear what Mrs. Nauert is congratulating the Macedonians on. According to the law, for a referendum to be recognized as valid and its decisions to enter into legal force, a turnout of 50% of voters + 1 vote is required.
That is, the Macedonians disrupted the referendum by declaring a boycott.
I am glad that the majority of Macedonian political and public parties did not stand aside and called on citizens not to participate in the farce.
Despite a certain formality of the referendum (its results were initially supposed to be non-binding, but rather as an indicator of public opinion), observers suggest that the “Western partners”, having received a slap in the face, will not simply give up. Moreover, over the past 20 years there has not yet been a case where at least one Eastern European country refused to join NATO and the EU.
The Macedonians can only be heartily congratulated for creating a wonderful precedent.
Macedonian Prime Minister Zajka, just in case, before the referendum, announced that Russia would definitely use its hackers to influence the results of the “popular will.” Therefore, with a disastrous vote distribution, the anti-Russian card will probably be played.
Let us recall that in 2017, two weeks after the visit of the President of Macedonia to Russia, Soros’s mug came out in the form of the Center for the Study of Organized Crime and Corruption (also sponsored by the State Department, USAID and the hairy paw of the US Congress “National Endowment for Democracy”), accusing the Russian special services of interfering in the internal affairs of Macedonia, “spreading information and disinformation in Russian interests.” With reference to “documents of the Macedonian counterintelligence.”
Russia's Serbian allies also suffered: their intelligence services were accused of direct interference in the internal affairs of Macedonia.
The pretext for accusing Russia and Serbia of the “bad results” of the Macedonian referendum could be anti-terrorism exercises conducted by the Serbs, which will be joined by Russian army and aerospace forces units on October 1, as well as an appeal from Serbian President Vučić to the Russian leadership to provide support to resolve the situation in Kosovo.
It is not yet clear what kind of help Vučić wants to receive - purely political or military-political, as in Syria, but this appeal itself could cause an avalanche of speculation from “our Western partners.”
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