Kurti’s Dangerous Turn Toward Appeasement
Kurti’s dismissal of Vokrri appeases Ambassador Orav, betrays Kosovo’s truth, and mirrors the very hypocrisy he once condemned in Blinken’s shadow diplomacy.
It is not Arbër Vokrri’s truth that endangered Kosovo, it is Albin Kurti’s retreat from it. By bowing to foreign appeasers like Ambassador Aivo Orav, and dismissing Vokrri for exposing the West’s complicity in the north, Kurti has offered the first crack in the façade of principled leadership he once embodied. This is not governance, it is surrender, executed to the satisfaction of diplomats who have spent years sanitising Kremlin-aligned Serbian aggression while lambasting Pristina for breathing too loudly. One must ask: if Secretary Blinken’s ties to Daniel Vajdich, the Vucic’s proxy and hedge fund whisperer were fair game for Kurti’s condemnation, how then is Vokrri’s indictment of Orav’s destabilising role any different? This isn’t just hypocrisy; it is capitulation dressed as diplomacy. Kosovo doesn’t need mayors on Zoom, nor ministers gagged by fear of offending the fragile egos in Brussels and Washington. It needs leaders with the courage to name names and call lies what they a…
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