Greece has spent countless watts of energy on obstructing their northern neighbors Macedonia on account of Greek fears that Macedonia has designs on the Greek region called Macedonia. To be fair, many Macedonian nationalists operating on the idea of an United Macedonia may have those designs. But, since Macedonia began in 1991 on account of the break-up of Yugoslavia the Greeks have protested Macedonia in all sorts of international events. In 2008 Greece blocked a NATO invitation to their neighbors even though Macedonia had applied under the name that Greeks prefer, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. FYROM has such an easy time rolling off one's tongue, no? Macedonia cried foul on this action and took their case up to The Hague. The Hague for their part told Greece it wasn't playing fair in a December decision. However, The Hague failed to do anything further to prevent Greece from playing unfairly again. Basically, The Hague pretended to be a dad that didn't really want to hear how the older brother had cheated at Monopoly and told the older brother to play nice. The older brother feeling scolded, went back to the Monopoly game thinking of better cheating strategies knowing that Dad couldn't be bothered while Den Haag was on TV. Score one meaningless victory for Macedonia.
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