The European Union celebrated Europe Day, the day when a certain Robert Schuman did something or signed something, I really don't have time to check the details, because while I'm writing this in Kumanov in the north of Macedonia, the special police are at war with 50-70 armed criminals, terrorists, mercenaries, I'm not sure who they are.
At this moment in the afternoon, the media from various sides are reporting about three dead and twelve wounded, civilians and policemen. The Croatian portal Index, the most read newspaper in the region, muttered the title WAR IN MACEDONIA, while the distant Western European media did not get involved more seriously.
That Europe that Miljenko Jergović calls a peninsula in a sea of drowning people, she released balloons and sneezed confetti all day, without black flora for the 1700 drowning victims in 2015 who died, among other things, because last year Britain ruled that the rescue program Mare Nostrum expensive.
The European Union, which danced yesterday to divert the world's attention from the Russian military parade, left it in the background sporadic shootings in Kumanovo, just as Macedonia was always in the European trap, left in the jaws of a paranoid government.
A great injustice was inflicted on the citizens of the former Yugoslav republic, which, unlike Montenegro, did not attack its neighbors with a gun, which calmly saw off the JNA army and was the first to stop at some poor European track. A great injustice - because Europe carelessly watched how corrupt Greek politicians, caught by the balls of their tycoons, lived over an entire country, blocked the way to Macedonia, broke its ties with Brussels, in the most primitive blackmailing way, based on a few ancient skaskis for which the common man does not care.
Just like Bulgaria - that neighbor also did enough to keep Macedonia away from the European Union, to make Macedonia a slip of the tongue for politicians and journalists, from Bill Clinton to the European media when they want to praise Montenegro.
Macedonia is always the last in the boring speeches of EU politicians, if it is mentioned at all, because we have had all kinds of instability in that country in recent years, without anyone getting too excited. We were just waiting for someone to shoot, and where else but in Kumanovo, which is the strategic dream of every potential terrorist - close enough to the Kosovo and Serbian border that the gendarmes from Belgrade have already arrived.
Serbian Prime Minister Vučić scheduled a cabinet meeting to prevent the fire from spreading to the Preševo Valley - but who cares about Preševo, all the European man needs to know is that it is the old heroin route and he has had enough, the European politician sees the Balkans as a problem and misery , which will break on his head - just as Montenegro could be punished for leaving Rožaje to chance, for example, the EU will regret leaving Macedonia in the lurch.
The European Union is responsible in the Balkans, especially in Macedonia, which was victimized in the most brutal way possible. Who still believes in the story about the EU standards that the country should reach, after Bulgaria was invited to membership? Bulgaria with its criminal crackdowns and underworld, with its public hatred of the Turkish minority, with its corruption and Boyko Borisov, who took a picture with a gun in the campaign for the mayor of Sofia, and that Bulgaria has become a role model for Macedonia, so when it can, it says that the authorities in Skopje will not improve their prospects for the EU with propaganda and marketing campaigns, but with genuine reforms...
It is not fair to Macedonian citizens. It is unfortunate that they have such politicians, it is not fair that they have such neighbors, it is not good that they have come to terms with the fact that their ethnic border cuts the capital and that the bridge divides Albanians and Macedonians.
The European Union is not yet aware of what a wonderful training ground for terror it has created in the Balkans by pouring its money into stupid projects led by NGO sectarians, without a single noble quality in comparison to politicians, except for better knowledge of the English language. The EU is not aware of the springboard for crime it has created by forcing real political cynicism and patting every local dictator and thief on the back. If it were not so, wouldn't Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski be the main suspect if he is trying to get out of the series of scandals that exposed his disgusting system of government with blood.
The European Union is a political dwarf without a compass and has found itself between two great powers, and its hell could begin in the Balkans where there is a shooting, but we are not sure if it is a war. Maybe I'm wrong and I wish I was wrong. But I know one thing very well - this kind of Europe does not deserve a better Balkans.
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