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Shkruar nga Adrian Thano
Sali Berisha's real problem has never been America. His most serious score is with the history of this country, not with the State Department...
The announcement of the easing of Non Grata sanctions through the "waiver" mechanism speaks more about Washington's metamorphosis than about Sali Berisha.
For decades, the United States functioned as the global guarantor of the Western order. Washington invested billions in alliances, in collective security, in strategic projects.
These did not always produce direct financial gain. The logic was different. Power was fueled not by immediate profit, but by long-term influence, prestige, and moral authority.
Donald Trump overturned this paradigm. His foreign policy is a balance sheet. Defense costs. Support costs. Even “friendship” costs. Allies must pay.
This approach has already changed the decision-making mechanisms in Washington. The traditional ideological lines of the State Department have faded. In their place, lobbyists, influence firms, and expensive public relations machines have strengthened. This world is being seen by the Trump administration more as a market and less and less as a cause or a mission.
This cold pragmatism is rapidly eroding the extraordinary capital of trust that Washington has worked so hard to build over decades.
The decision on Sali Berisha also illustrates at the local level this new spirit of a changing America. The decision on him is important not for the peripheral weight of the character but for understanding that political morality is also gaining a market price. Thus, nothing remains sacred and nothing inviolable.
This message is being given.
It is a strong lesson for countries like Albania, where the statements of Washington and the American embassy have been treated as holy scripture. However, this is where American history ends and Albanian history begins.
Sali Berisha's real problem has never been America. His most serious score is with the history of this country, not with the State Department.
"Non Grata" was declared here long before Washington did, and the memory of a people has no appeal procedure.
The seal of his real isolation is a blood seal on the wounds that have remained open. Gërdeci, January 21 and many others are the daily reminder of our long and traumatic transition, where power and impunity have walked side by side.
This reality has produced a political caste that has lived on the betrayed trust of citizens. This caste has turned the impoverishment of hope into the most efficient means of rule.
But their theater of fake trenches has ended today. The streets are filled with revolt and resistance. The slogan 'Rama in prison, Berisha in prison' has become the refrain of this revolt.
This slogan is a political diagnosis. It is the conviction that Albania's problem is no longer limited to one government or one party, but to the entire clique that has dominated our public life for more than three decades.
This is why the enthusiasm for an American "waiver" sounds so disconnected from Albanian reality. Washington can rewrite its doctrines, it can even relativize its decisions. But history does not grant "waivers". / Dita /
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