Macedonia to play Russian roulette


Erol Rizaov

The Skopje Valley surrounded by mountains, when there is no wind to blow away toxins, is among the most polluted areas in the world. We would still have received this dreadful, but also very stale news, with calmness as if it were about a distant, unreachable industrial area if pollution did not become a significant political topic overnight. The environment would have remained a spot for a desperate fight with windmills only for the “annoying” ecologists. Politics and the media have made a hit out of this tragedy, as a serious competition and a relief valve because the political scene is dirtier and more poisonous than all others.

A stronger north wind would blow from the mountains from time to time, which is exhausted and it will barely penetrate the Chinese wall to the stifled towns and will clear the air for a day or two and it is easier to breathe, while poisons boil in the political kettle, which we breathe and eat without any interruption, happy to get a fresh dose like some addicts. There is no breeze in this kettle, nor rain to freshen up the earth.

Macedonia is suffocating in its own poisons that are released by political leaders and profiteers in the battles for money and for power. The polluters of air, soil, and water cannot be stopped with prayers and abracadabra magic, an environment that has been soaking poisons up for years like a sponge. The chimneys that make black clouds with smoke cannot be excluded because thousands of people barely survive with poor wages for dying in installments, and only a few are rich as gods from the sale of the poisonous product. The poor people living from the old furnaces of the communist and capitalist factories are heating their homes with raw wood, charcoal and oil, they are driving old cars, and are consuming the world’s waste of food and medicine. The biggest polluters cannot be extinguished and cleaned with firefighting cars, nor with protective masks, let alone with magic and spells, with promises of spectacular solutions.

If this is the revenge of a decade-long blow to nature and the awareness of people, for them to finally learn that the lungs of the state, of the cities, of the earth, of the air and of the water, of the mountains and rivers, are already carcinogenic in the third stage, and the metastases affect both them and their generations, then how dangerous the irradiations are after the explosions of the political Macedonian Chernobyl that left behind all the authorities free from the charges of the victims. For decades this gang has been poisoning us, it is easy to get out of responsibility by covering crimes so that all the dirt cannot be seen and that has been covered with lies and bribery in order to keep silent before the misdeeds of the big polluters, who destroyed everything they touched.
Now the biggest pollution from the political cuisine and chimneys is currently taking place since the independence of Macedonia. There is a joint action of all polluters so this piece of land could never be cleaned up. The construction of the only and largest cleaning station for the citizens of the diseased society is being mined. Hidden behind the shield that they save Macedonia, they offer clean air in cans. It takes only one person to be convinced, or just in case – two, to accept the efforts of their like-minded people from Greece and not adopt the constitutional changes in the Parliament that open the doors to Brussels for accession negotiations with the EU. A membership in NATO and in the EU requires more votes to decide whether we want to be part of Europe or not. Macedonia will play Russian roulette in the Parliament on January 15th.

The organizers of this most tragic suicide assassination are planting a revolver with only one empty hole in the barrel. If this Russian colt is accepted, suicide is successfully guaranteed in the second attempt. Macedonia will be blown up by assassins who do not hide their venture. For now, they are doing well in preparing and making chaos and ambiance of confusion from which we can be saved, as they preach, with the suicide of the state. And while doing so, they are awfully lying that they give their strong support for Macedonia’s membership in NATO and the EU, but do not accept the Agreement with Greece, which in essence does not mean anything else but shooting directly in their own head.
When you say that you are for NATO and the EU, but not in favor of this agreement, it’s like asking the river Vardar to change its course by promising that you would make a better bed for it and a better sea to flow into. This is what the persistent attempts of opposition leaders in Macedonia and Greece to make a better deal for protecting the pride of their peoples resemble. So, Mitsotakis believes that the deal is a betrayal of Greek national interests, and his counterpart Mickoski is of the same opinion that the agreement is a capitulation of national identity. The two minority parties in the parliaments are dissatisfied with the provisions in the Prespa Agreement on the same matter – the Macedonian national identity and the Macedonian language. And now imagine what these two politicians could agree on if they were put in a position to decide. Write “Big Failure” over it. Nothing else. It’s just that the consequences for Macedonia will be tragic.

This is enough for the government that has made this historic agreement with Greece to leave nothing to chance in the third vote in parliament, that it does not turn out to be incompetent and leave everything to luck when turning the barrel of the Russian colt. Russian roulette is gambling with life, and the Parliament must not be a gambling house, after having been a slaughterhouse twice. A winning combination for the European future of Macedonia must be certain and nothing should be called into question. That is when the general cleaning of all pollutants will finally begin.

Views expressed in this article are personal views of the author and do not represent the editorial policy of Nezavisen Vesnik