Radio War Nerd EP82—Macedonia Crisis w/Lily Lynch + Iceland Nerd w/Gunnar Hrafn Jónsson

Guests: Lily Lynch, editor Balkanist ; Gunnar Hrafn Jónsson, MP Althing (Iceland parliament) Two guests this episode! First we talk to Lily Lynch in Zagreb, editor of The Balkanist about the recent crisis in Macedonia where protesters stormed parliament—and the tangled history of Macedonians, ethnic Albanians & their unfriendly neighbors...and a granular look at the local politics vs the western media's line that Macedonia's problems are the fault of "Russian meddling"... Then we talk to Gunnar Hrafn Jonsson, one of the first guests on Radio War Nerd—former Iceland Public Radio journalist , who has since been elected to Iceland's parliament on the Pirate Party ticket...We talk about the latest chatter among Islamic State foreign jihadis, as well as Iceland's "Cod Wars" with Britain, the Iceland prime minister who hid in her house from Dalai Lama monks, and Gunnar's visit to the local NATO base... Total time: 2:10:07