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Re:Macedonia Agrees to Change Its Name to End Bitter Dispute... by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @04:19PM (#17297587)
> Same for Alexander Macedon (he's obviously greek)

Alexander III of Macedon died in 323 B.C. That's 2,300 years ago. Turning a millennium-and-a-half footnote into a geopolitical issue is stupid.

> If you claim some identity in front of many people you must be able to support it otherwise you end up looking like a fool

Greece's per-capita GDP is three-quarters that of Europe's average [1]. Macedonia's is less than one-third that of Greece's. This is a stupid thing for two poor countries to create economic, political and geopolitical hurdles out of.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_Eu...

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Re:Macedonia Agrees to Change Its Name to End Bitter Dispute... by interdrift on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @04:57PM (#17297914)
A lot of these things are not about wealth, they are about identity. Wealth is much easier to create than identity.
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Re:Macedonia Agrees to Change Its Name to End Bitter Dispute... by Lanthanide on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @12:10AM (#17300173)
Things get a bit more difficult when the identity is standing in the way of creating wealth. This seems to be the case here, assuming EU/NATO memberships would be largely positive economic forces for Macedonia.
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