The problem is that the path to rescue for Macedonia cannot be achieved through weapons, and that the solution to the problem does not lie in the answer to the question which is being posed often these days - what can the Macedonian army do, how many soldiers does it have, tanks and helicopters, or what is the percentage of Albanians in the Macedonian army. A few more days of serious clashes and shooting around Tetovo, with the first civilian casualties, and things would definitely escalate into disaster - in that case Macedonian society would be hopelessly split along ethnic lines, without possibility of ever constituting a government in which representatives of the two peoples could sit together. Albanians are entrenched in the attitude that they are victims of state terror and see a joint state exclusively as a "federation", just like some foreign media which call such a solution "transitional" - en rout to a final split. The majority of Macedonians at the same time strongly favor an attitude that an end must be put to concessions, otherwise Macedonia will soon cease to exist