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Blind to geopolitical tectonics

2025-02-19 18:18:13Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA ÇAPAJEV GJOKUTAJ
Chapaev Gjokutaj

As peace talks opened in Saudi Arabia, President Trump made it clear that Russia's days of isolation are over. It seems clear that Trump wants to readmit Russia to the international club and make it one of America's best friends.

Everything you read above was written in today's issue of the NYT by Peter Baker, this newspaper's chief White House correspondent and a keen expert on US-Russia relations.

I know that many of my friends, reading this post, will say: Who asks us about world politics? Do you have anything to say about our problems?

The policy of appeasement with Putin, his 'reinstatement into the international club' and the aim of making Russia 'one of the best friends of the US', if they truly become a reality, will also seriously affect the fate of Albanians, at least at two critical points: European integration and the survival of Kosovo as an independent state.

After the Russian aggression in Ukraine, the EU became much more attentive and positive about accelerating the integration process of the Western Balkan countries. The calculation was clear: Putin's Russia was trying to increase its influence in this region that is considered Europe's backyard. If we do not hurry to integrate them, Russia will try to fill the gap.

Now that Trump is aiming for rapprochement with Russia, will Europe continue to be as interested in our European integration or will it once again plunge the process into bureaucratic mechanisms?

The second concern is even greater: policies of appeasement with the Kremlin automatically benefit Serbia and harm Kosovo. We still do not know whether, under the new conditions, American interest in Kosovo and the Albanian factor in the Balkans will remain as it has been until now or will decline and fade.

In this way, the geopolitical tectonics that Trump's policy is causing also affect us, the Albanians, and even affect us at existential points. It is unfortunate that politics in both Tirana and Pristina continues to deal with the whims of power and is unable to, by continuing the competition of alternatives, unite on a common platform for national existential issues, a platform that would stand above parties and government mandates and would be for today and for tomorrow.


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