You find yourself stuck in one of the smallest European countries with no possibility to leave? You might as well record a podcast.
This is how you find us, with Jason roaming the great wide spaces of the American SouthWest, but Cvetin is stuck in tiny Macedonia, with an invalid passport, together with over half a million others. The disastrous mishandling of the process to replace passports and print new ones with the loathed name "North Macedonia" led to the biggest case of mass house arrest in history. And Macedonians are seething at the Government, which will pay an even higher price in May for its antics.
As for the elections, the Government's plan to unite all Albanians against VMRO failed spectacularly. There are now two serious competing Albanian groups, and DUI likely won't join SDSM in a coalition, to try to keep its nationalist street cred. This all spells disaster for SDSM. We explore the potential presidential candidates as well.
We also discuss a major Politico article about Kosovo, which is very very relevant for Macedonia, as we are going down the same path or high level corruption and colonial management.
Give it a listen, and give this article a read -
https://www.politico.eu/article/how-the-us-broke-kosovo-and-what-that-means-for-ukraine/
Music by:
- Mizar (Pocesna strelba - Last salute)
With gratitude to Mark Steyn for giving us the idea for the podcast name
Macedonian Content Farmers Podcast, Episode 168: Under house arrest