A year ago, on May 19, at noon, the United States of America imposed the missing punishment on Sali Berisha and his family, declaring them "non grata", under the motivation of undermining democracy, blackmailing of the justice system and involved in significant family corruption, using political power.
The decision compensated for the missing justice of Albania, which for 30 years is and still continues to be partly under the clutches of the power of a single man and his close family circle, turning the impunity of politicians into a monument of shame for Albania.
This decision marked the start of the open battle of Sali Berisha and his family, for the creation of an anti-American front in Albania, which for a year has united within itself a variety of characters who are united by fear of justice, insecurity in the future for their power over justice, and hope in anti-American factors in the region and beyond.
The battle initially tried to disguise itself after the personal war against Lulzim Basha, but over time it became an open anti-American battle, which today has its balance sheet.
His request sent by mail to a Court in France against Secretary Blinken never received an answer whether it reached the hands of the judge or not, except for the confirmation of the Albanian Post that the letter has reached the address.
For the first time, Albania has an anti-American political force, which is trying to legitimize itself as the Democratic Party. Her name and stamp do not matter much, as her real identity is anti-Americanism, and he is stamped on the forehead of its main leader Sali Berisha and his partner, Ilir Meta.
This force is not so insignificant as not to embarrass Albania and its pro-US strategic orientation. They are officially the first Albanian politicians in history to already have an anti-American ideology at the core of their political organization and a motive of hatred of the West in their battle.
Their battle to be politically factored through this anti-Western ideology is a challenge of democracy and Albanian society.
On the other hand, the good news is that this political force, unlike any new force on the scene, is growing and weakening. The more it is exposed as an anti-American force, the smaller it becomes, like a snowball being exposed to the sun.
The more Berisha supporters understand that his battle was not with Lulzim Basha, but with the US, the less they have the desire and will to go after him.
A year later Sali Berisha lost the vast majority of the Parliamentary Group. 35 deputies refuse to go on the anti-American adventure after him. He has faced savage international isolation and a clear lack of political perspective in the country.
His efforts to seize a piece of the Democratic Party to have as a political guarantee in his battle against the US, stems from his mentality that politics in Albania is a guarantee not to be affected by justice. And that's the only motive for which he lives now.
In this battle, Sali Berisha is trying to interpret his return to active politics and the abduction of this part of the Democratic Party, as an anti-American triumph and his supporters are "reprimanding" the United States everywhere, that it is his own fault that " revived ”Sali Berisha.
In fact, Secretary Blinken's decision a year ago not only permanently buried Sali Berisha as a corrupt family politician and democrat, but also destroyed his false reputation over much of the Albanian Democrats.
Years ago on May 19, before Sali Berisha was designed as a miner of democracy and involved in significant family corruption, he was many times more popular than today within the DP and beyond.
Today he is seen as a problem of the DP and as a shame of Albania. This is a balance that this society would never have achieved without the dramatic US decision against it, based on the thousands of facts during these thirty years, found in the files of the American state.
The US decision has not only irreversibly destroyed the false image of Sali Berisha, but has made many of his supporters aware of distancing themselves from him.
Today we have courageous politicians within the Democratic Party who tell Sali Berisha that his son killed 26 people in Gerdec, or that he has problems with justice for January 21, while only a few years ago, this was just a dictionary of critics of Sali Berisha.
Today we have most of the Democratic Party deputies who reject Sali Berisha and others who are no longer intimidated by his physical and verbal violence, while a few years ago, he was an inviolable idol of theirs and they all looked like Flamur Noka .
Today we have seen that Sali Berisha has gathered around him all his biological tribe, provincial and his loyalists, to have a party to defend, while a year ago, he hoped that politics would protect his biological family, tribe and his tribal kennel in Albanian politics.
For all those who say that Sali Berisha has been "revived" by the US punishment, we can say without fear that Sali Berisha has only revived his feelings of revenge, political primitivism and his anti-Western instincts.
Yes, they have come to the surface of his rotten political trunk, like mushrooms that feed on an oak lying on the ground.
Sali Berisha himself is now useful only to produce fertilizer, but no longer politics. And no matter how nutritious his fertilizer is to feed anti-Americanism in Albania, it is so little that it can no longer make a tree, but it serves as food for the mushrooms that have been living on his back for thirty years. Include his family.