No matter how many statues of Alexander the Great and King Philip of Macedon are built there in FYRoM, nobody is going to believe that they were Slavic.

FYRoM, a Slavic-Nation competing against Greece, a Hellenic-Nation, over seemingly trivial matters concerning ancestral-inheritance, cultural-heritage and historic-rights to the ancient-Macedonian legacy...two nations at odds over the use of a name. Both Greece and FYRoM find themselves stuck in a position where neither of them can back down.

For Greece, the preservation of the name has become a potent patriotic symbol, with an ever increasing apetite to keep it in the Greek domain...public opinion there demands it.

For FYRoM, the preservation of the name has become a matter of national survival...without the Macedonian-name for self-Identity and for self-determination purposes, the state ceases to exist, with the peoples there having to revert back to their Southern-Slavic Serbo-Bulgarian tribal-names.

It's more difficult for FYRoM's ex-Yugoslavs in that they do not see themselves as being either Serbian or Bulgarian, in mind, body or soul...having been sufficiently seperated from both of them from since 1944, when the Peoples Republic of Macedonia came into being on the demands and the will of the ruling Communist elite which governed Yugoslavia during WWII.

For Greece history is important. One need not walk long distances in Hellas to encounter something physical from the distant-past. Modern-Greeks are reminded constantly and repeatedly, every morning they wake-up...who they are and . from whence they originate.

The burden of having to defend the virtues of Hellenism the Greeks should not have to do alone...Western Civilization owes Hellenism something.

Greeks can not permit the Slavs of FYRoM to usurp the Macedonian-name for self-Identity and for self-determination purposes...even if they are transitional-Slavs, Slavs that have been sufficiently distanced and seperated from their original Serbo-Bulgarian roots and ethno-origins. Their search for Identity, rooted in classical-antiquity can be found in ancient-Paeonia, or ancient-Dardania, FYRoM sits on those ancient-lands.

FYRoM's Macedonian-Identity pales in comparison to the Paeonian-Identity they could have, or the Dardanian-Identity they could have...out of those three, FYRoM chose the wrong one, the worse ill-fitting Identity they could possibly chose, on the basis, the Macedonian-Identity does not bode-well with South-Slavs, even the ones that are in transition searching for new Identity to replace their old one, their old Serbo-Bulgarian Identity.