FLASH
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A symmetrical model of autocracy where the power of Belgrade and Tirana is fed by the same criminal sources. Both regimes have installed narco-states that use dirty money to destroy democracy and buy political immunity.
The latest news from Belgrade, where the owner of the "Florakom" company, Rade Spasojevic, was caught with 5 tons of marijuana, is not just an ordinary police chronicle, but a frightening X-ray of the Serbian state.
When it is discovered that the person managing such industrial quantities of drugs is the same person who bought the headquarters of the ruling party with his own money and serves as a political advisor to Aleksandar Vučić's machinery, the mask of "stability" falls to the ground.
This case proves that drug trafficking in Serbia is not a phenomenon that occurs on the outskirts of society, but is the very fuel that keeps the regime's engine running. We are not dealing with a criminal who has corrupted an official, but with a system where organized crime and the political elite have merged into a single body, using drug money to buy votes, silence the media and cement absolute power.
This dangerous formula for holding on to power finds a chilling parallel a little further south, in Edi Rama's Albania. Although they often pose as geopolitical rivals, the two leaders are students of the same autocratic playbook.
As in the case of “Florakom” in Serbia, in Albania the line between the state and the cartels has long been erased. We have seen how drug traffickers have transformed into “strategic investors” who launder money in the towers of Tirana or on the coast, just as SNS donors buy luxury offices in New Belgrade.
This "concreteization" with dirty money is not simply urban development, but a gigantic money laundering operation that has destroyed the free market and killed fair competition, leaving ordinary citizens hopeless in the face of the oligarchy clothed in power.
Rama and Vučić have built symmetrical narco-states, where the cannabization of the territory served as the first step to creating a parallel economy, which was then used to annihilate the opposition and control every cell of public life.
If in Serbia the next scandal bears the name of Spasojevic or the "Jovanjica" farm, in Albania we have seen interior ministers end up behind bars or on the run for links to trafficking, proving that crime is not an accident, but a method of governance.
This system has created a new elite of "untouchables" who do not obey the law, but only the orders of the supreme leader, turning the public administration into an appendage of criminal groups that secure the votes necessary to maintain the democratic facade.
What makes this situation even more depressing is the hypocritical stance of the European Union and the United States. For years, Brussels and Washington have chosen to turn a blind eye to this galloping criminalization, contenting themselves with the facade of “stability” promised by these two autocrats.
By treating Rama and Vučić as legitimate partners, while their countries are turning into giant drug money launderers, the West has betrayed the democratic aspirations of both peoples.
This inexplicable tolerance has emboldened these regimes to suppress critical voices and control justice, knowing that international protection will not be lacking as long as they promise tranquility on Europe's borders.
This deliberate negligence, guided by a cold geopolitical pragmatism, is allowing the installation of a kind of “state mafia” in the heart of the Balkans. It is time for the international community to understand that a stability financed by narco-euros is not peace, but a time bomb that will sooner or later explode, taking with it any illusion of the region’s European integration.
The corruption that emanates from Tirana and Belgrade does not remain within our borders. It poisons the entire continent through trafficking lines and influence over foreign officials. Without a firm punishment of these connections between politics and crime, Belgrade and Tirana will remain hostages of leaders whose power is steeped in drugs and corruption, transforming the region into an oasis of insecurity at the gates of Europe./ Adapted from "Pamphlet" By "Dtt-net"
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