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What about Albania?

2026-01-04 10:34:21Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA ADRIAN THANO

What about Albania?

What happened in Venezuela is a brutal reflection of the times we are living in.

But also a test for those who call themselves leftists. A test to measure coherence with principles, the sovereignty of nations, equality between states, the rejection of violence. Especially when the latter says it is exporting democracy.

The global left has not been silent. Important voices from Europe and Latin America have spoken. And they have spoken rightly. Not to wash away Maduro's sins. If human rights are the moral flag of the West, then every nation, including Venezuela, has the inalienable right to legal sovereignty, to political change without the threat of force, without external imposition.

You cannot defend democracy by violating its principles.

Maduro fully deserves criticism for his way of governing. But the path to his overthrow cannot be a special forces helicopter or sensational headlines on screens with bombs exploding in the background.

Moreover, those bombs fall on homes, not on regimes. Ordinary people live there, like the rest of us. They have no power over the decisions of the superpowers. But they will unjustly bear all their consequences.

What about Albania? Our little Albania? Albania, which has a government that calls itself left-wing?

What do our leftists think of luxury watches and high-fashion clothing that should be the voice of equality and human dignity? Beyond plastic surgery, Romanée-Conti wine, 5-star ledge poses, salty jokes, and digital suns, what do our leftists think of a world that is facing the return of naked force as a geopolitical tool?

What voice do our ministers, MPs, and beautiful representatives of the people who parade through Parliament on Thursdays like characters from a luxury catalog raise at a moment like this?

The first reaction was an unrestrained embrace of the language of force without any principled filter, without any reflection. The Foreign Ministry of the leftist government reacted with language that excluded any nuance of leftist thought. It expressed unreserved support for military action, labeling the Venezuelan government as a “narco-terrorist regime.”

He chose not only not to problematize a military intervention without an international mandate, but to applaud the rhetoric of the most right-wingers on the American scene.

A complete lack of ideological identity. But also a complete lack of dignity.

Being left-wing does not mean being anti-American. Otherwise, even the mayor of New York who called what happened in Venezuela an act of war and a violation of international law must be anti-American.

However, Tirana's stance is not simply and exclusively outside any leftist line. In fact, it is an act of fear coded as diplomacy. The Albanian "left" does not have the freedom to choose to be leftist even if it wanted to.

Why? Here we have a much deeper symptom that has nothing to do with the left not being left.

Albania has a corrupt political class in power and in opposition. With files that have been leaked inside and outside the country. When you are dependent on shady deals and unexplained wealth, you cannot speak differently than what the know-it-all wants you to.

Corruption is not just a moral vice. It produces political dependence. A corrupt political class is no longer free to make decisions. It is captured, blackmailable, subservient.

Every attitude, internal or external, every decision in such conditions, no longer stems from convictions or ideals, even if you have them, but from fear. The fear that someone, somewhere, inside, near or far from the borders, might remind you of what you signed, what you hid, what you took.

Unfortunately, our politicians are all slaves to sin. They will always be forced to dance to the rhythm of others' drums./ Published in DITA Newspaper


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