With all the facts taken into consideration, FYRoM's claims to a Macedonian Identity rooted in classical antiquity have proven to be false...untrue! So where does it leave FYRoM now ?

It leaves FYRoM in a dark place...shunted-up a siding, kept at arms length, at a distance, not given a second look.

The good-will of the West FYRoM took advantage of. By abusing the right to self-determin as a nation of Macedonians, FYRoM pushed the West to consider balancing the relationship between historical-facts being pitted against Western rights and freedoms.

That America under the Bush administration wanted FYRoM integrated as quickly as possible into the West's most prestigious economic and security structures of the EU and NATO...It proved impossible on the basis, Greece disapproved of FYRoM's choice of name. FYRoM opted to go for the Macedonian name to describe their new Slavic country, nationality, language and ethnicity, a name which the Greeks consider to be uniquely their own.

Some Western politicians were willing to turn their backs on Greece in order to appease FYRoM, not from historical academic perspectives but from the political expedience aspect. Academic correctness gave way to political correctness and FYRoM was given the time of day but only for a short while, until professional historian scholars stood-up to confront the politicians, to show them that political expediency cannot and must not be allowed to ride roughshod over long established mainstream history facts.

[link to macedonia-evidence.org] From since the day classicist historian scholars put pen to paper in support of the Greek positions over the name dispute between FYRoM and Greece...global politicians and world diplomats dare not make decisions that go against the findings and teachings of World-Academia.

Nobody gives FYRoM a second look anymore...FYRoM is where it has always been, in a dark place for quite some time now, shunted-up a siding, kept at arms length, at a distance until the people there learn the truth about Greeks but moreso about themselves, who they really are and from whence they really come from.

As far as global politicians are concerned, Macedonians are Greeks...and as far as Academia is concerned, FYRoM's ex-Yugoslavs are exactly what it says on the tin, South-Slavs from Serbian and Bulgarian stock.

For how long can FYRoM continue with it's silliness, with the pretence...that Serbo-Bulgarians are Macedonians in the ethnic and racial sense and in the cultural-linguistic sense.