Responding to an assertion [1] by Gerald Knaus…
Athens and Skopje face a [prisoner's dilemma [2]]: if neither side believes that a solution is possible, and acts on this, both will lose.
…Zarko Trajanoski [3] wrote on Facebook:
However, the analogy with “prisoner's dilemma” is not only false, but very offensive: Athens is not a prisoner, but a prison guard and perhaps a political torturer in this case. And the outcome of this political torture, aided by Sofia as well, is the rise of the Macedonian ethno-nationalism and the decline of the liberalism, democracy and human rights.
He later provided an elaborate explanation in a blog post [4] [mk [5]].