Look, as far as I'm concerned, the fact that the Albanians, the Croatians/Serbians, and even some of the Greeks have whined about me not only on the public board but to the owner tells me I'm doing a fair and impartial job.
I don't know how any of you define your beliefs, and I don't much care, but you all try to use genetics to bolster your grievances against one another or claim territory or just generally vent your hatred of other people in the Balkans.
Sometimes I think one point of view is correct, sometimes the other. I base everything on history, linguistics, archaeology and genetics all analyzed logically. You guys ought to try it sometimes.
Actually the debates have been going on for hundreds of years. But when a new field pops up, it gets used. That hold true for genetics too.
We are not using genetics to claim territory. Most balkan states have claimed each others territories long before genetic science was born.
- As for the albanian-greek thing, i don't want to go into details, because is digs too deep, and should be settled by the countries before commoners interfere.
- Albanians claim Slavic lands
- Slavs claim albanian lands
- Albanians uses "The demography card" - Which means that it claims territories in which Albanians majorities have been incorporated into other Countries without being able to choose themselves. (Crimea and kosova is an example of land claimed on basis of demography, 90%+ russians, 95% albanians)
- Albanians also use the "Historical right card" - Which basically means "We were here first" (An example can be Israel, who states that history tells us that the Jews had a country there before the arabs, and therefore they were allowed to take the area back)
- Slavs claim land on the basis of historical right too. (Kosovo - cradle of serbs etc. etc.)
- As we see, serbs don't get much support from history, as it is hard for a slavic people to claim that their cradle is in Kosova, and that they were on the balkans before Albanians.
- When claims came about some years ago that a new autochtonous haplogroup(I2a-Slavic) of the balkans emerged, they immediately saw it as an opportunity to revive their old claims.(as it was basically their haplogroup)
- Now, the tables are turning, and as it is turning out, one more of their propagandic claims gets shot down. As it is getting clear that I2a-Slavic is just a slavic marker.
- So yes it is a political battle. But that does not make the albanian claims less true. NO serious historian has claimed that slavs have the historical right over albanians.
- So imagine if you were faced with all these fraud claims everyday. Wouldn't you turn bitter at some point, and drop the mask?
Albanians are claiming the same things as most western scholars. The only place we sometimes get overruled, is on forums like these, because serbs have a huge number of internet spammers, who just repeat the same rubbish over and over again, until people sort of believe their non sense.
Trust me, they also spam the academic stage, but no one takes them seriously, so those papers never reach our eyes.
It should be time to ignore their fake claims on the western forums, just as we do on the western academic stage.
Trust me, it is sad that so many albanian posters like "Trojet" and "Fustan"(which often bring lots of useful insight) should be given less credibility, just because some 3-4 serbs are sitting on over 30 eupedia profiles, just spamming all useful threads which defy their distorted view of the world.
Blaming balkans isn't fair in my eyes either. Because most balkan states get along very well. It is just serbia who doesn't get along with anybody, because in the end they are not even a balkan state, they are just an extension of russian politics situated in the balkans.
At first sight, looking at forums, one will get the impression that Greek-Albanian relations are bad, but officially there are not really any issues beside the cham issue. And the cham issue will be taken up in a Dutch court anyway, so that probably wont lead to a war or anything, as the countries themselves wont really have a say in what will happen.
I think that it is a combination of Serbian, labanian and greek ultra-nationalists who are spamming these forums, and thereby drawing a picture of a totally chaotic balkan, which are making some people see the balkans that way.
You can either see me as a liar, or not. But trust me when i say, that most claims that serbs have tried to make about albanians(using linguistics, archeology and history) have always been seen as political fantasies which no one believes. All have been disapproved. Now they are clinging on to this I2a-Illyro-thing for the same reasons, and we are all just standing and looking, while they are turning the forum less and less serious.
So, are we waiting for some I2s-Slavic person to travel through time and tell us directly that he was a slav before we can begin to see these posts as spam?
Really, don't we have enough proof that I2a-Slavic is slavic and not Illyrian/thracian? In my eyes, those claims are not even believed by the claimers themselves, they just want to drown the useful posts, so they wont get read by as many people.
