Macedonian Content Farmers Podcast, Episode 155: Lies, damned lies, and the US State Department

It's on! The US Embassy is now openly endorsing the DUI - SDSM Government, and wants Macedonians to accept the Bulgarian demands for constitutional amendments, and to just shut the bleep up about the travesty of the Bechtel highway deal. Cvetin and Jason had to jump back in the podcasting saddle (after a long - too long break due to pressing matters of international importance) to shed light on the Embassy arm twisting - the likes of which we haven't seen since 2016. If VMRO was trying to make a deal with the Embassy (asking for early elections in exchange for secretly promising that the next Parliament will vote in the Bulgarian amendments) now it seems that the US will stick to its favored coalition of DUI and SDSM, and pressure tactics are back in play. And with Parliament expected to have a proposal in the summer, things are going to move fast. Some push-back is coming from the EU, on the issue of Bechtel, but on the other hand, EU is even more intent on having Macedonia accept the Bulgarian demands - a German diplomat came to Skopje to darkly warn about uncertain future for the country is we don't vote on the matter ASAP (and Serbian and Bulgarian politicians are openly talking about war and partition). Meanwhile, actually Kovacevski seems eager to turn up the heat in the fight with Bulgaria, accusing them of acting as bad as Russia does toward Ukraine. Now you know why we had to do a podcast, and will probably have to keep a more regular schedule in the weeks to come.

Music by:

- Mizar (Pocesna strelba - Last salute)

With gratitude to Mark Steyn for giving us the idea for the podcast name