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Putin talks to Trump, missiles fall on Kiev...
In the late hours of July 3, a silent but fatal development occurred on the international stage: a phone call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, without diplomatic protocol, without international mediation, without transparency. Just hours later, over 550 missiles and drones exploded in the skies over Kiev, in the most ferocious air attack on Ukraine since the start of the war.
All of this was no coincidence. It was a message. A signal that showed that the Kremlin, spurred on by a segmented Europe and an America that is unraveling as the leader of global freedom, has chosen to speak with fire.
Donald Trump, the returning President who is trying to reshape the US position in world politics, declared that the phone call with Putin did not bring “any progress”. But this is a way to mask the fact that there was no real pressure, no red line, no guarantees for Ukraine. The Kremlin called the conversation “constructive”. In Russian diplomatic language, this means: “he didn’t tell us no”. And when the West doesn’t say “no”, Putin means “Fire!”
Russia responded immediately with a barrage of missiles that hit civilians, infrastructure, roads and schools in six districts of the Ukrainian capital. This was not only a retaliation against Ukrainian resistance, but also a test to see how far it can go without consequences. And now that Trump has suspended military support for Kiev, stopping the delivery of Patriot, Stinger and HIMARS defense systems, Ukraine is more vulnerable than ever. But it has not given up. It has started producing its own combat drones and is seeking help through third European countries to buy American weapons, since official Washington is no longer moving.
Meanwhile, Europe has begun to move. France and Britain have revived a “coalition of the willing” to provide protection for Ukraine. Germany, as always, is acting cautiously. But all this is happening while the Trump-led US looks more like a passive mediator between aggressor and victim than a defender of the international order. While Ukraine burns, the West debates.
What about Albania? Albania is silent. No official reaction from Tirana to the most brutal attack on a European capital. No stance on the Trump-Putin conversation that is deciding the fate of a continent. In a region like the Balkans, where Russian influence, Chinese investments and Serbian infiltrations are daily, diplomatic silence is political suicide. If we do not react today to the attacks on Kiev, we will have no power to react tomorrow when Kosovo is threatened, or when Albania's integration into the EU is blocked by foreign interests.
Today, the war in Ukraine is no longer just a conflict over territory – it is a battle for the moral and political direction of the world. And when the course of this world is being decided in secret phone calls between autocrats and leaders who see peace as a bargaining chip, the silence of others becomes complicity./ Pamphlet
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