Why is Rama allowed to disperse non grata-s in the name of America?

Alfred Lela

The Prime Minister of Albania roams the political space of Tirana with the haughty ease of Spartak Ngjela. The lawyer is famous, or at least that's how the public parable (parable) presents him, for the challenge he makes to everything and everyone when it comes to his connections and knowledge, which the author presents almost as above-this-earth. For example, in the case of a visit to Washington, he raised his Socratic finger in a conversation with American senators and shouted: Do you gentlemen know who George Washington is?!

As for the lawyer's predictions with the FBI, they have come out... in the opposite direction: the famous American agency came to Tirana, not to make the arrests that the lawyer prophesied and wanted, but through Charles McGonigal... to impose fines, in cooperation with international realtors, and senior officials of Edi Rama.

Rama, however, manages to fascinate us beyond the Lawyer, even though they say he learned some lessons from him.

One of the charms he spins in his hands like a rosary and distributes like a talisman is the authority to speak as a representative of America in Tirana and the Balkans. More than the head of the Albanian government, he resembles the imperial viceroy who safeguards the interests of the Great Power.

Even in the triad clash of Pristina-Belgrade-Washington, Rama approaches the problem more from the American point of view and interest than the Albanian one; he speaks more as a member of NATO than as Prime Minister of Albania.

(Rumors say he seeks to mend a broken relationship with Washington following his recruitment of FBI Special Agent McGonigal.)

In this role that he gives himself in the driving theater, he goes beyond the political approach, which can be accepted to some extent, and gets into the administrative mess. He does and has done this every time he has declared, first, American non-grata in Albania. To start from the end, even Albin Kurti, who is Albanian but from another republic, burdened his public profile with the stigma of being a non-American woman. At first, he leaked the news to the media close to the government, then through them, he fabricated a question about the non-women, which the Americans probably have ready for Kurti, and in response, he did not hesitate to reveal the purpose, leaving it so full of hints that it seemed that the decision for the Prime Minister of Kosovo was a postal issue, not a decision.

Non grata did not come for Kurt, but another one came before for his classic opponent, Sali Berisha. Rama announced it a year before the announcement officially arrived. With a time difference, he did the same thing when the British designed the former Albanian prime minister.

Americans use the expression; it's gonna eventually catch up to him, which roughly means: "he'll fall into the pit he opens for others," but that's not the point.

The question is, why is Edi Rama allowed to speak on behalf of America, to say that he knows George Washington better than the Americans!!! Suitable for the one who allows himself the bad taste, the political kitsch, but why are the representatives of Washington silent? Do they not take Rama seriously, or do they not take seriously the non-grata that they produce?