FLASH
Shkruar nga Gjergj Zefi
The clash between walls and bridges that is challenging the modern world...
There are leaders who go down in history as building institutions. There are others who will be remembered for building walls, exporting fear, and packaging failure as patriotism. Donald Trump falls into this category: the president who spoke to a superpower as if he were addressing an angry crowd at a suburban rally, feeding it resentment, paranoia, and political tinsel promises. He did not heal America's wounds; he magnified them, marketed them, and turned them into a flag.
Trump did not build a great America. He built a scenography of force. Walls on the border, walls in debates, walls in mindsets. Walls against immigrants, against those who are different, against the very idea that the modern world is held together by alliances, dialogue, and a minimum of universal human dignity. Essentially, Trumpism is not a vision of the state. It is fear built into the system. It is mediocrity disguised as determination. It is the failure of the American political class that, to cover its emptiness, handed the microphone to a man who knows how to shout louder than others.
Faced with this figure who sees the world as his own property, the border as religion, and division as a method, Pope Leo XIV rises, with a weapon that seems old in this cynical age: moral authority.
And here begins the great irony of our time. The most powerful man on earth, with an army, dollars, intelligence services and media behind him, seems a Lilliputian in front of a giant who speaks of mercy, immigrants, the poor and dignity. One has the apparatus of the state. The other has the weight of conscience. And often, the latter proves to be heavier.
The Pope does not build walls because he knows that walls do not protect civilizations; they only testify to their fear. Bridges, on the contrary, require courage. They require faith. They require vision, not as a threat, but as an opportunity. This is why Leo annoys the populists of the time: because he disrupts their market of hatred. When he speaks of the refugee, he unmasks the politician who has built his career on demonizing him. When he speaks of solidarity, he exposes all the hypocrisy of those who mention God on the podiums but behave like fearmongers in practice.
This is not a duel between religion and politics. It is a duel between two ideas. On the one hand, the failed president who measures strength by the height of the wall and success by the number of those excluded, and on the other, in the model Pope who measures civilization by the ability to accept, to listen, to approach. One speaks of borders as an obsession. The other speaks of borders as a moral challenge. One demands applause. The other demands reflection. One sells anger. The other preaches conscience.
And yes, this duel goes beyond America. Because Trumpism is not just an American phenomenon. It is a Western disease, exportable, imitable, repackaged in any country where politics no longer has ideas and feeds on the lowest instincts of the crowd. Even in Europe, even in the Balkans, even in fragile societies like ours, the model of the leader who screams, divides and proclaims himself a savior always finds buyers. Therefore, the figure of the Pope takes on global weight: not simply as a cleric, but as a countermodel to the aggressive banality of populism.
Trump represents an era where arrogance is mistaken for strength and vulgarity is sold as authenticity. Pope Leo represents something much rarer: the power not to become like your opponent. In a global climate where many leaders increasingly resemble anger managers, he remains one of the few who speaks of humanity without cynicism and a world order without predatory instincts.
In the end, history does not long remember those who merely erected walls. It remembers them as symptoms of a sick time. Those who build bridges, even when they seem vulnerable, leave behind a model. And that is the difference between a president who confuses power with revenge and a Pope who understood that true authority comes from the ability to unite./ Pamphlet
Po boll me butafori e kritike komuniste se nuk je ka thu gjo me na mbushe mendjen o shoku autor i pamfletit. Ja ke fut kot , mendesia jote komuniste nuk shpie ne asnje gje tjeter vetem se ne degradim moral, shpirteror e klasor. Zoti kur ka fal njerezit nuk i ka fale te barabarte e ne kte kontekst ju ngaterroni predikimin qe ben sherbetori i zotit qe eshte Papa e nga ana tjeter nje udheheqes i nje shteti si Amerika qe ruan ekuilibrat globale....e sa per dijeni po mos te ishte ky i fundit ti shoku gazetar do ishe diku i fshehur mes malesh, ne burg apo i marr peng per kte mendesine tate komuniste qe realisht me ben per te vjelle. Por kshu eshte kur gazetar rrembythje si puna jote ju eshte dhe rasti te komentojne lloj lloj mendimesh e ideshe qe jane kancer i shoqerise dhe jetes se perditshme. Kaq per sa i perket tutkuneve si puna jote.
Kostandini i Madh,Ilir me pushtet perandorak apsolut ne shek III e kuptoi me mire se kushdo tjeter paraardhes se feja dhe besimi eshte domosdoshmeri e jetes njerezore,jo opozite kunder por si e pavarur funksionon keshille me gjykim te ftohte dhe te urte. Pushteti,paraja jane te perkohshme per njerezit, vjen nje moment sic e tha edhe para 5-6 muajsh miliardieri Bill Gates se materialet behen te pa vlera.Ne toke i kemi gjetur dhe po ketu do i leme.Kane perfituar ato kombe qe ne thelb jane udhehequr mbi baze humanizmi,lirite e te dtejtat e njerezve,lirine ekonomine te tregut,te fjales se lire,te ndertuara mbi rregulla e ligje strikte. Leoni XIV nuk eshte pushtetar materialist apo opozitar kunder tij per te qene i tmerrshem,por fjalet e Trump behen te tmerrshme edhe pse eshte i kthyeshem ne gabime kur thote se do zhduk nje qyteterim te tere,si kunderpergjigje e asaj qe shpreh vazhdimisht irani prej 45 vitesh se do zhduk kombin Izraelit. Normalisht edhe si shtetas amerikan Papa ka edhe nje pergjegjesi edhe me te madhe per te nderhyre per shuarjen e tensioneve, pasi asnjera pale nuk fiton aq me teper Irani. Shqetesuese eshte se Trump nuk po kuron plage, por po i nxit me keq me fjalor dhe veprime. Amerika ka patur nje funksion pothuajse perfekt te sistemit, ka punuar me strategji afatgjata ku roli i individit ka rendesi por per periudha dhe fenomene te caktuara,por ketij shohim se i ka humber pak filli e spo di qar po flet e ben.
Bestytnite kane ekzistuar qe kur njeriu ishte majmun, por u konsoliduan ne fe nga qerratenjte sundues. Feja eshte shpikje e vendeve Aziatike per te coroditur mendjen e njerezve e superfuqive Europiane. Pasi nuk munden t'i pushtonin Europianet me fuqi ushtarake sajuan fete e i percane. Pse te gjitha fete me sunduese jane krijuar ne Azi ?????? Fakti me i dukshem jane trojet Ilire qe u zhduket 90% nga harta.