It has become my habit to call out Joe Biden’s blatant lies at the UN General Assembly – the US State Department’s annual Human Rights Report, if you will.
Last year, it condemned the crackdown on peaceful protesters, the failure to hold free and fair elections, and state-ordered attacks, imprisonment and harassment of civilians in dictatorships around the world. But only, of course, in countries where the US is not leading the attacks.
This year, in reference to Russia and Ukraine, “The United States wants this war to end on just terms,” as the Military Industrial Complex cheered for being able to say those words with a straight face.
During his political career, Joe Biden has lived through – resulting in millions of deaths – wars waged by the United States, proxy wars, coups d’état and total American interventionism.
He talked about “the principles of the United Nations”, “human rights”, “international law” and had the courage to say: “Now, it is no secret that in the competition between democracy and autocracy, the United States – and I as President, for our world based on the values of democracy he favored a vision.
No, Joe, it’s no secret that the United States—and you, as president—envision a world based on obedience to the United States. And it’s fitting that Biden’s speechwriters included “autocracy” and “the United States” in the same sentence.
The world knows about the destruction of the USA, but many countries, the most famous members of NATO and the European Union, continue to turn a blind eye.
At the same time, they condemn and perpetuate war, protect and suppress independence, claim respect for international law and violate it. And the West has shamelessly carried out all these actions in Macedonia, before and after the creation of the United Nations. The UN itself, in Article 1 of its Charter, “maintain international peace and security” and “develop friendly relations between nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples”.
Although Macedonia was on the side of the Allies in both world wars, the United States and the United Kingdom joined forces to unleash terror by bombing Macedonian civilians in Aegean Macedonia (which was annexed by Greece after the partition of Macedonia in 1913). Again, after the formation of the United Nations. Why? To maintain Greek rule, Nazi-backed British royal family-backed fascists in their publicly stated goal of exterminating Macedonia and Macedonians.
There is no such thing as supporting a strategic partner “for better or for worse”.
The West followed decades of support for Macedonian oppressors, with attacks on Macedonian ethnic identity and independence ramping up in recent years.
So forgive me for not cheering when Joe Biden says he has “defended and strengthened democracy at home and around the world.”
But why has the USA, the self-proclaimed “beacon of democracy”, targeted the Macedonians? The short answer is to increase US imperialism, now through the expansion of NATO and the EU.
Specifically, Greece and Bulgaria threatened to veto the Republic of Macedonia’s bids for Western NATO and EU membership unless the name, identity, ethnicity, culture and history of the Macedonians were erased. This is in line with the publicly celebrated policy of denying the existence and persecution of large Macedonian minorities.
Eradicating the existence of an ethnic group by increasing American imperialism? Of course, the United States was all in.
So the US established a dictatorial regime in the Republic of Macedonia to force a highly derogatory name and identity change to “North Macedonia” and “North Macedonian”, brutally suppressing dissent and subjecting it to physical attacks, threats, blackmail and imprisonment. Macedonians across the Balkans.
And the world stands still while Joe Biden, following the lead of every US president since the creation of the UN, proudly proclaims the opposite.
Bill Nicholov, president of the Macedonian International Movement for Human Rights
