Yes, my grandmother's grandmother was sister to Montenegro's most well-known Poet/Bishop/Prince, Njegos. I know the history well, including the bjelo/zelo nasi vote for joining Yugoslavia when Montenegrin King Nikola's daughter was the Queen of Serbia, and eventually became Queen of Yugoslavia. There was strife for a while, but it virtually disappeared.... until the break-up of Yugoslavia.
Although Montenegro has its own history, which Lord Tennyson even wrote about, it's population is small and it is otherwise surrounded by potentially hostile forces. With Albanians to the South, the Muslim Sandzak to the East that transverses the border of Serbia and Montenegro, and Bosnia & Croatia to the North Montenegrins are in deep trouble if all the Muslims in what was the former Yugoslavia want to link up from Bosnia to Kosovo -- and I think that they do. In an earlier time, Montenegro could protect itself because all the men were warriors. Today, they are "businessmen". Not a good situation at all.
So, rather than an independent Macedonia, what should have happened to it? Should it have stayed part of Serbia (where it was before Tito broke it off)? Be absorbed by Greece or Bulgaria? Do you believe the ancient Macedonians (Philip II, Alexander) were Greeks? That's not a critical question; I don't know what they were myself. I'm just curious as to your opinion.
Macedonia has completely burned its bridges with Serbia -- both in the pre-WWII assassination of King Alexander and in jumping ship from Yugoslavia. No, I don't think Macedonia can or should rejoin Serbia. It's best shot lies with Bulgaria, with which it is most culturally linked-- either allied to or part of it -- but I doubt the US or Euro powers will ever allows that -- which is why I said that Macedonian independence was "a suicide mission".
I know that the real "Macedonia" lies on the territory of Greece and is more akin to the cultures (Athenian, Spartan, etc) of Greece than it is to any other -- if that answers your question.
Thank you for the information.