The gracious slaves

The Albanian government with direct orders from the U.S. decided to host 4.000 Afghan collaborators of Americans and NATO forces. What words can I find to describe this lunacy? To begin with, the average Albanian has to ask: why was Albania involved in this war, to begin with? Albania has sent, since 2002, 2944 military personnel to Afghanistan to help with the occupation. So one can understand this number better, the entirety of the Albanian army currently has 8.500 active personnel, so roughly 35% of Albanian forces have served in Afghanistan since 2002. And if we want to calculate the number of soldiersAlbania has sent on international missions we would find out that the contributions in Military Operationsof Albania led by NATO, UNO, EU, from 1996 - December 2017 are in total 6,863 military personnel, so roughly 80% of the Albanian armed forces. And I raise the question again: why? The only thing we gain from this is the reputation of the bootlicker of the occupiers, and this is extremely shameful for our country. Albanians have continuously fought alongside the oppressed and for the oppressed of the world not for the oppressors! Our heroic history dies in vain!

photo: Albanian army in Afghanistan

But providing our destroyed-by-the-West army to the West isn't enough. They demanded that Albania a

country of 2.8 million people (with a rapidly declining population) hosts 4.000 Afghan traitors,

employees of the U.S. So they can be hosted, the Albanian government ordered the students to leave

their dorms with the promise that by the start of the academic year the dorms will be empty and they

can return, leaving the students with no option but to return to their family houses. The Albanian

government removed its own citizens from their dorms with the orders of the United States so Afghan

collaborators can stay, the audacity! And all that while there are still thousands of homeless Albanians

from the destructive 2019 earthquake. Of course, Edi Rama started to boast to international media

about his humanism and his country's duty to host the Afghans, going to interview after interview in

order to be praised, of course the BBC interviewed him and CNN didn't miss a chance where he went to

the Amanpour Show. This clown acting as Prime Minister tries to use the glorious history of the Albanian

nation to justify the unjustifiable, first, he mentioned that "Albanians were the Afghans 30 years ago"

when "we escaped from our own red Taliban", it is worth mentioning that this clown is right, yes Albania

has its own "red Taliban", they were called partisans that freed the country from foreign occupation just

like the Taliban did. Of course, our beloved leader forgets to mention that Albanians needed to massively

emigrate 30 years ago because of the collapse of Socialism in the country and the rise of Capitalism.

Also, he never mentions the amazing year for *Albania, 1997,* when a civil war emerged because of

capitalism. For some reason no comparisons were drawn there. And to top it all off he also, by mistake I

suppose, never ever mentioned that his own father was a "red Taliban" up until the end of his life. Then

he uses another example and tells the amazing story of how Albanians in WW2 never surrendered any

Jews to the Germans because they gave them their "besa". Actually, Albania was the only country with

more Jews after WW2 than before. Again if we want to draw parallels in this situation, the Nazis are the

US, the partisans are the Taliban and the Afghans coming to us are the collaborators, and we are just

another axis country. And now someone logical wonders, "I am sure that the opposition will take

advantage of this situation and bash the government for this decision". I am here to erase your doubts

my dear wonderer: Lulzim Basha, leader of the Democratic Party, not only didn't bash Rama for this

decision, but he supported and praised him! Commenting that, "The duty of Albania is to stand with the

US and its allies in this humanitarian crisis". One can see how different are the 2 ruling parties here and

30 years after all, but thank *God* we aren't in one-party communist times! Now we can choose 2

parties... that are the same, but they are 2 so we have democracy!

photo: Student crying after being kicked out of her dorm

photo: Lulzim Basha leader of PD (Democratic Party)

As of now, 607 Afghans have arrived in Albania and are hosted in student dorms and hotels in Tirana and

Durres. Edi Rama himself welcomed them hand in hand with the U.S. ambassador to Albania Yuri Kim,

while other flights were welcomed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Olta Xhaçka again with the

companion of Yuri Kim. Actually, the Albanian government set up a special task force consisting of 5

Ministers: The Minister of Interior, Bledi Çuçi, the Minister of Defense Niko Peleshi, the Minister of

Finance Anila Denaj, the Minister of Education Evis Kushi, the Minister of Health Ogerta Manastirliu and

the Minister of Tourism Blendi Klosi.

photo: Afghans arrive in Albania

photo: PM Edi Rama, Minister of Foreign Affairs Olta Xhacka and US ambassador Yuri Kim welcom Afghans in Albania.

-Platon Stafa

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