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In this respect, the enthusiasm of the opposition of Sali Berisha and Ilir Meta after Trump's victory is an illusion by emotional fanatics, and a pragmatic one by those who know the game.
Everything that is happening now is a carbon copy of 2016, but with a difference. This time we won't have the race to snap a picture with Donald Trump during the inauguration in January, or the lobbying to do the job.
After all this material has been turned into a criminal case and material of the Special Prosecution in Albania, supplied by the American Department of Justice.
Meanwhile, today there will be no opportunity for fake news like in December 2016, when the media close to Berisha and Meta sacked the American ambassador in Tirana, Donald Lu, who stayed for one more year, and was then appointed to an Asian country from the State Department.
The current ambassador, David Kostelancik, was appointed by the Senate and is simply awaiting the accreditation procedure.
Anyway, the enthusiasm is great, it can be seen from the statements of Sali Berisha from the arrest of the House, the statement of Ilir Meta from prison, and of course the attitudes of all their supporters on the networks and television panels that have offered a marathon on the American elections. but taking the opinions of people who really have neither analysis nor power to change things.
Today, unlike in 2016, no one has been caught by surprise by Donald Trump's victory in Europe. It is clearly seen from the statements of the big offices, which in all probability had their connections and actually have them with Trump's staff.
It was clearly seen in the meeting of the US President-elect with Volodymyr Zelensky, where the man at his side was Ambassador Richard Grenell.
Who is considered either as the next Secretary of State, or as the head of the CIA.
It could even be said that there is an increased enthusiasm for Trump's victory in the constituencies that are opposed to each other. Arabs have voted in the majority in Michigan, and the chancellors like Riyadh and Qatar are very happy with Trump's victory.
On the other hand, the hawkish Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after firing his defense minister on the day of the US election, put up a large poster in Jerusalem with Trump's photo saying "Make Israel Great". A metaphor that is quite different from the current MAGA of the Republicans.
The happiest of Donald Trump's victory are the Iranian mujahedeen in Albania, who expect their idol to defeat the ayatollahs, who see him as an opponent.
In 2016, one of the most enthusiastic about Trump's victory was the radical Serbian leader Vojislav Sesel, who took to the streets of Belgrade with his supporters wearing MAGA T-shirts.
He also hoped that Trump, as it was said, had good relations with Putin, but in reality, he was imprisoned again and the sanctions against the radical leaders were not stopped for a minute by the American administration.
In this respect, the enthusiasm of the opposition of Sali Berisha and Ilir Meta after Trump's victory is an illusion by emotional fanatics, and a pragmatic one by those who know the game.
As a group that has a small space of action and political causes, it needs a flag to wave it. E MAGA can be one, if only to keep for some time. Even relying on a statement by Grenell, who criticized the Biden administration in the media of the Berisha family after declaring Sali Berisha Non Grata.
But could the Trump administration make the move to overturn a State Department ruling on a certain politician who is in the winter of his career? Why should he do this? The precedents that are quickly cited with Yasser Arafat or even with organizations like the Mujahideen do not hold up. Yasser Arafat was the politician who agreed to recognize Israel, when no Arab country or politician recognized it, while the Mujahideen gave the US the secrets of Iran's nuclear bomb production.
Otherwise, no politician or high official in the long list of those sanctioned as Non Grata by DASH for many years, and especially during the Trump administration, has had a removal.
But to remember, at the end of 2018, Sali Berisha and his family were denied a visa to the USA, which is known by Edi Rama's famous phrase: "Sali, can you cross the ocean"? That's when his Non Grata was cooked and in power it was Donald Trump, not George Soros, who was then his fiercest political opponent.
In these years, in reality, we have not seen a rhetoric both from Trump and from the head of the "Open Society".
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