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- Subject: Re: On Bosnia, Serbia and a Potential "Third Balkan War," #800
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- Thomas,
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- I believe that Greece's assertions that if Macedonia doesn't change
- its name it will start claiming a province of Greece bearing the same
- name are totally groundless. It's the other way around. If Macedonia
- retains its current name, Greece will have a good pretext to attack
- Macedonia and annex it. How can a country of 2 mln. people, barely
- on its feet and virtually having no regular army can threaten
- a comparatively big country, member of NATO with a population which
- is several times bigger?!
-
- In case of any hostility, Greece will have an automatic support of
- the Western world, because it happens to be a Christian country.
- (4O% of the population of Macedonia is Moslem). I think the best
- solution of this problem would be if Greece changes the name of
- its province called Macedonia.
-
- You say:
- >Throughout history Macedonia has always been a part of Greek
- >history and culture from the ancient times to now.
-
- I hate to disappoint you, but that is simply not true. There is
- no continuity in Greek history or culture. Ancient Greece has
- very few (if any) things in common with modern Greece. Ethnically,
- modern Greeks are as different from ancient Greeks as American
- Indians are different from the peoples of India. Any objective
- (=non-Greek) historian will tell you that ethnically modern
- Greeks are closer to Slavs than to ancient Greeks. So Thomas,
- Athenian philosophers, who you mention in your post, have as much
- to do with you or with your ancestral country, as they have to do
- with me. What I am saying is that modern Greeks can not claim the
- ancient history and culture of Macedonia as their own. And should
- not use this false claim to harass the neighboring country.
-
- Please don't think that I'm anti-Greek. I am not. I am simply
- trying to be fair.
-
- Sam.
-