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The bitter diplomat Escobar and the "individual" Kurti

2023-06-07 18:57:32Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA SKëNDER MINXHOZI
The bitter diplomat Escobar and the "individual" Kurti
Skender Minxhozi

The American envoy for the Balkans, Gabriel Escobar, has been particularly harsh. He has said from the beginning all that the USA has addressed in the form of direct criticism of Albin Kurti, but he has been especially sharp and without gloves in his words. "Washington does not support an individual "who has no instinct for cooperation". It seems like this phrase has it all. Desperation, challenge and threat. Escobar's declaration of the withdrawal of support comes a few days after Kosovo was excluded from the large NATO military maneuver in Europe "Defender Europe 23".

Something else was not expected, after the statements of the "individual" Kurti, as Escobar calls him, regarding the "naivety" of Secretary of State Blinken. Comments that no responsible prime minister of the Balkans would dare to make today, especially a prime minister of Kosovo. The only new country still with a fragile international status and facing a regional power like Serbia, which is doing its best for Kosovo to remain in the country-number. Unintegrated, economically weak and under the threat of Serbian ultra-nationalization, which starts with the heads of state in Belgrade and ends with hooligans in civilian clothes who fight on the streets of North Kosovo.

Escobar's statements come a few hours after a prestigious media such as "The Economist" made the darkest accusation against Abin Kurti: He predictably provoked protests and ignored the appeals of Western diplomats. The allusion is clear: he knew what he was doing, he knew he was provoking a mess, and he did it again! You can hardly find a more serious charge than this. It's a charge of arson.

Albin Kurti's challenging character has been known for years. It is a character that lives with defiance, disregard and arrogance towards the other. Only that in this case he has chosen to challenge not the political opponents, not the Serbs and Vučić, but all the Westerners in the bloc. He has called them naive, he has put conditions on you, saying that he has a nuclear arsenal behind his back, he has opposed them in every request or proposal they had. On any somewhat cold and objective logical analysis, this is the behavior of a man challenging the wrong side. The party that holds the fragile fate of the new Kosovar state in its hands since the distant year 1999.

Where does this desire to play a dangerous, fatal and obviously consequential game come from? Not for the personal career of Albin Kurti, as this has little importance when placed in the general context, but with consequences for the present and the future of all of Kosovo.

Kurt is convinced that he is doing the right thing. Before him, weren't dozens and maybe hundreds of state leaders convinced that they were doing the right thing, while they were gambling with the fate of their people?! Because in fact what the Kosovar Prime Minister is doing today is an adventurous game of gambling with the nerves, the will and the attitude of the Western powers towards the status of Kosovo, its future.

Kurti's supporters do not miss an opportunity to publicly express their satisfaction that in this confrontation with the Americans and Europeans, they have behind them the popularity of the Kosovar public, their vote and support. Of course, populism is sweeter to the ears and minds of a community that sees with sympathy the fact that their government insists on confronting the Serbs of the North and the enemy state behind that fence. But this is the perspective of a common man who does not think long and does not know much. The politician must both think and act on the basis of what he knows, because it is the position of the manager who knows much more than his voters.

The illusion that Kurti can throw a fight with America, with the expansion of popular support, is a credo without a future. Many others before Kurt, in leading and comfortable positions, had similar illusions when it came to challenging international partners. Almost all of them have ended badly. Albin Kurti will not be able to resolve the conflict he has with the Americans with elections and votes. Not with the Serbs, but with the Americans and Europeans. You can get as many votes as you want, but when your country is on a narrow road full of potholes, requiring constant international support, votes don't matter.

Escobar's determination that the problem is not Kosovo, but its prime minister, has placed Albin Kurti in an awkward corner, like those children who are condemned by the teacher to sit with one leg in the corner of the classroom. Will he know how to get out of there with dignity and wisdom, or will he sleep on the false laurels of popular internal support?!


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