He shamelessly hides the US itself not only claimed no such thing as “ethnic” Macedonians exists during the Greek civil war but were the very ones that provided Greeks the weapons to fight Yugoslav communists promoting this exact fake “Macedonian” identity as a proxy against Macedonia Greece. If “Macedonians” existed back then as Danforth claims.. then it follows the US was complicit in their attempted genocide since it was the US that armed Greeks and claimed no such ethnic group exists..

Danforth has been harassing Greeks since the mid 80s when he had a bad experience with that he calls a Greek “nationalist”. He narrates Greeks as “imagined community” and not “real” Greeks… .but then flip-flops on his own alleged principles with other groups that have less in common with their claimed roots then Greeks do. Gellner for Greeks. Smith’s primordialism a-la-cart for others.

Danforth for years lobbied on behalf of former Yugoslavian nationalist extremists by framing their cause as “human rights” and Greek as “nationalists”. Low and behold, most of the former Yugoslavians he supported now claim not to be Slavs but apparently antihellenic founders of the Hellenistic period. This in itself defied basic common sense.
They use this obvious fake history to promote what they call “United Macedonia” that they claim includes 1/4 of Greece.. This behaviour continues even post Prespa. They use the name “Macedonia” to promote irredentism against Greece exactly like they did when they still self-identified as ethnic Bulgarians “Macedonians’ living in Vardar Yugoslavia.

So where are all the self-proclaimed “human rights defenders” like Danforth’s righteous condemnations of Skopje like once Greeks were condemned? Hear that? That’s the sound of silence made by pretentious bigots that lack the integrity to admit they made a mistake recognizing extreme nationalists in Skopje as “Macedonians”.

Greeks were clearly right to object to recognition on grounds they would abuse the name. Unfortunately Danforth and anyone else that lobbied for Skopje pretend Greeks were wrong. When someone lies in the present their lectures on ethics and the past lose any shred of credibility