- Kosova is with America and America is in Kosova.
We awaited, rightfully and with great joy, the day of the Hearing Session on the Western Balkans in the House Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. Congress, chaired by the well-known Congressman Keith Self, a friend of the Albanians.
And we were not disappointed. The questions and issues raised by the congressmen and the answers given by the witnesses—whenever Kosova was the subject—were almost entirely in Kosova’s favor. Serbia was in the seat of the accused for all its destructive and destabilizing policies in the Balkans.
Among the most important points was the harsh criticism directed at Serbia for the systematic violation of the human rights of the Albanian population living in the ancestral regions of Preseva, Bujanoc, and Medvegja. Everyone present agreed on this point, and Congressman Self even presented a congressional resolution which may be considered historical.
The danger posed by Russian-Serbian hegemonism was emphasized, with a request that the Trump Administration engage more to preserve peace in the Western Balkans.
America has invested greatly in Kosova since 1999. This investment must be protected, maintained, and further developed. Since Europe, for many reasons, lacks the capacity to restrain Serbian aggression, it is essential that America be directly and decisively involved in the Balkans. The conflict between Kosova and Serbia can only be solved through American intervention.
Mr. Edward Joseph’s proposal for Kosova’s membership in NATO is the quickest solution to the problem with Serbia, because it extinguishes Serbian hopes for border changes and for returning to the place where it committed its crimes.
American engagement is always good news for Kosova, provided that one works hard with American officials—discussing calmly, with arguments, and with respect.
All this good news for Kosova was attempted to be belittled, distorted, and misused for personal, clan-based, and party interests by some representatives of Kosova’s opposition parties, together with their analysts and journalists from all sides, sold to the enemies of the Albanian people.
In the style of “oh men, the Bistrica river is on fire,” they fixated only on 15 seconds of this extraordinary session—more than four hours long—in which, during one of Congressman Self’s short routine questions about whether PM Albin Kurti is considered “an obstructionist” by some career bureaucrats in the State Department, two panelists answered yes, and the third mostly yes.
In many media, especially social media, sensational and disgracefully low-level headlines against Kurti exploded, with fantastical, illusory predictions about the “end” of his political career. The “blocker, obstacle” chorus began, along with the dance of his opponents and the enemies of Kosova. The internet nearly exploded. The day after the hearing was a circus day—it would have been funny if it weren’t shameful.
Where were these clowns three years ago when, in a Senate hearing, Senator Menendez asked senior State Department official Derek Chollet whether President Vučić had ties to organized crime, and he answered Yes?! Imagine if this had been said about Mr. Kurti—there would have been the end of the world.
It is well known that various career bureaucrats in the State Department may have differing opinions on certain issues, which they can change as needed.
During my 35 years of lobbying activity in Washington within the Albanian American Civic League, with national legends Joseph DioGuardi and Shirley Cloyes DioGuardi, we often were confronted with high-level U.S. officials influenced by Serbia, including former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger.
Some of them called former Congressman DioGuardi a “troublemaker”. Such people were calmed by the U.S. Congress after the wise actions of the AACL and pressure by the Albanian-American community.
It must be emphasized that there are serious indications that the coordinator of many actions against Kosova and American interests in the Balkans—within certain American circles as well as within the Kosova opposition—is the former U.S. Ambassador Richard Grenell, influenced by Aleksandar Vučić’s fascist regime.
He is a sworn opponent of PM Albin Kurti, an open destroyer of Kosova’s democracy in 2020, a direct interferer in the free parliamentary elections of February 2025, and an adviser to Kosova’s opposition on how to block Kosova’s institutions and make political chaos, with the goal of removing Kurti from politics.
It is widely believed that he is also behind Bedri Hamza’s sudden and surprising trip to Washington—without any logic or need—just to boost the opposition’s chances and weaken Kurti before the elections. This is an anti-democratic act with the aim of interfering in the free elections of one country for the interests of another enemy country.
As former Ambassador Grenell’s public statements became noticeably pro-Serbian, he has begun to change his strategy, asking other American officials to come out publicly against Kosova and Prime Minister Kurti, including the American Embassy in Prishtina.
He is trying to empower the hostile organization “Lista Srpska” and facilitate Serbia’s return to Kosova, camouflaged by supposed economic relations.
The well-known Republican Congressman Mike Lawler recently told us in a meeting with the Albanian-American community, that Grenell presents himself as more important than he actually is within the Trump Administration. Furthermore, by supporting Serbian aggression, he seeks conflict in the Balkans, while President Trump is against conflicts and wars. For this reason Grenell’s time is on the decline.
Former Ambassador Christopher Hill, who has become Serbia’s lobbyist in Washington, is acting in the same way. He is criticizing Kosova and Prime Minister Kurti without any basis. Grenell and Hill do not represent official U.S. policy— they represent Serbian interests in America.
I hope that the people of Kosova will give their answer with their vote—by a majority for PM Albin Kurti on December 28, and at the appropriate time, for President Osmani. Only the people of Kosova can save Kosova from Serbia’s return, for a secure pro-European and pro-American future.
American support will not be lacking. In the end, America prefers strong and uncorrupted leaders like Vjosa Osmani, Albin Kurti, and Glauk Konjufca.
Kosova is with America and America is in Kosova. Serbia is with Russia and Russia is in Serbia. This will never change.
Note to Readers:
Yes, in the TV program of Marin Mema (Sept. 27, 2020) all that is dislayed are Albanian/Arvanite folk costumes (costumes originally being with longer skirts/fustanella going up to the knee, covering the knee). What is happening in several “Greek” videos here in YouTube, is a blatant international intellectual and cultural property theft of the so called “Greeks” against Albania, Albanian culture and Albanian ancient and traditional costumes and dress.
It is a well-known fact that, this present-day “Greece”, since 1832 (when the Albanian/Arvanite War for Independence against Ottomans liberated the country), has been de-facto a colony of different and/or a consortium group of European countries (including United Kingdom), and ruled as a monarchy by a foreign monarch, as a head of state.
This lasted from 1832 until 1970-s, when the monarchy was overthrown in favor of a military junta government, followed by a civilian government in the later years.
Even Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (husband of Queen Elizabeth II of United Kingdom), has been photographed in “Greece” (during the years when this “Greece” was a United Kingdom colony), in his childhood, dressed with an Albanian traditional costume with fustanella.
But the inscription in the said photo (that can be seen in the London Museum of Arts and History), falsely states: “Photo of Prince Philip as a child, dressed in Greek traditional consume”??!! There are no “Greek” costumes. There is no “Greek” country, the “Greek” ethnicity does not exist, and has never existed.
The place called Greece never existed before as we know it today. To learn more, read the article below, published by a group of renown US based scientists.
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**** THE PLACE CALLED GREECE NEVER EXISTED BEFORE AS WE KNOW IT TODAY ******
The place called Greece never existed before as we know it today.
The people who live in the so called Greece today used to be called “Romej/Romaikos” during Byzantine Empire and “Raja” during Ottoman Empire times (except the Arvanites and Chams who used to be called always by their name like “Albani”, “Albanoi”, etc.) and the name “Greece” never existed during Byzantine times.
The people who live in the so called “Greece” today are NOT the descendants of ancient “Greece” (as the world history knows it – that civilization has been an Illyrian-Pelasgian civilization, intentionally misrepresented as “Greek” by con and planted “historians”).
Regarding the religious language used in the eastern part of the Roman Empire (an invented/made-up language by Roman religious administrators called Koine/”Greek”) – it fell out of use, and went extinct times ago (about 2000 yrs ago).
Same happened with the Latin language (an invented/made-up language as well, which was spoken in the western part of the Roman Empire) – it fell out of use and went extinct, and is rarely spoken nowadays, except in few and certain official religious ceremonies in Vatican and for international medical terminology only.
During Ottoman times in the Balkans, after the great powers pushed for an uprising in the place that today is called “Greece”, an independent country was formed during 1821-1832.
The majority of the population (around 92-95%) there was of Arvanites and Chameria (together with Albanian speaking regions of Follorina, Kosturi, Athens and Peloponez) stock.
The rest of the minority population (around 5%) was of Aromanian, Slav, Turks, and Roma stock.
The only language spoken up until 1821-1832, in the region that today is unjustly called “Greece”, was Albanian.
There were no “Greeks” whatsoever, they did not exist as ethnicity, population and language at all, up until 1821-1832 period in that region.
Albanians also were the backbone of the uprising for independence from the Ottoman Empire – with 100% of the all senior leading commanders of the uprising for independence during 1821-1832, being of Albanian stock (Arberoret/Arvanites and Chams).
The Arberor/Arvanite Republic was the initial nucleus independent country established in the Morea/Peloponnese region by 1821.
The first session of the first newly elected Parliament in 1832, of this so-called nowadays “Greece”, held its full Parliament proceedings in the Albanian language (“Greek/Koine” language did not exist back then in the region/area called “Greece” today).
What is appalling to the international community of scientists and historians, is that “Greek” government today has put a total ban on the access, research and publication of the archival documentations (classified as “top secret”) of the first Parliamentary session of 1832 in “Greece” – and this is a clear evidence that today, “Greek” government is trying by all and any means in its disposal to hide the historical truth about how this “Greece” of today it came about to be.
After the gain of independence, the region was divided, and with a prolonged civil war, therefore a united country could not be immediately established on the entire region.
Fearing the disintegration of the region after Ottomans left (and the possibility of a return of the Ottomans), and in order to dominate the said region, Prince Otto of Germany was installed in by European powers and Russian Empire, in order to clear the mess and initiate nation – building there.
He was proclaimed King of the region by great European powers and the Russian Empire of that time and given, at the same time, plenipotentiary powers to rule.
The Prince Otto royal family in Germany (Bavarian dynasty) happen to be an admirer of the ancient civilizations, one of them being the extinct ancient “Greek” civilization, traces and archeological findings of which are also seen in that region called today “Greece” as well.
Being an ancient history romantic and buff, “living in a bubble” and being completely out of touch with the realities of the Illyrian Peninsula at that time, Otto came up with the idea (in collusion also with the then Russian Empire and an anti-Christian dangerous religious cult in that region at that time – some self-proclaimed “Orthodox” Church), that the only way to keep the place together and for a chance to build a country there, was to adopt/impose some kind of neutral/foreign ancient language and culture for all people living in that place, that will make possible for the people to stick together under one language and culture imposed on them.
Therefore, with a special royal decree, Otto proclaimed a version of the ancient artificial “Greek”/Koine language (the easier one to be taught and learned by people there in those times) as an official language of the place, and also came up with the new name for the place, calling it with a special royal decree “Greece” (a name without any historical and factual meaning).
Everything else was banned, and the new “country” formed, was ordered to be rebuild anew in resemblance to the old romantic view of the ancient extinct “Greek” civilization, starting with the buildings, names of people, places, cities and villages, regions, mountains, fields and all were changed to made-up names borrowed from the ancient literature of an imaginary ancient “Greek” civilization.
This of course was accompanied with money brought in by European powers to rebuild. The more people in that region agreed with the change of their true national and ethnic identity and declared themselves artificially “Greeks/Hellenes” and adopted to the new order, the more money was to be pouring in.
Naturally, the strongest resistance to this artificial and made-up solution, was made by the Arvanites (who consider themselves to be pure Albanians at the same time – contrary to the today’s Greek governments laughable, nonsense, and desperate lying propaganda that falsely declares that “Arvanite of Greece speak Albanian but are not Albanians but Greeks”) and Chams, but at no avail.
It is legendary, the loss by one vote (the illegal vote of then French Ambassador) in the Price Otto’s rigged Parliament of that time, of Arvanite and Chams proposal to have the Albanian (Arvanite) language as an official language of the place called ‘Greece” today, and to name and call the new country “Arvanoi (Albania)” (instead of “Greece”).
There is overwhelming scientific and factual evidence, archival and historical documents, as well as studies and publications by major world-renowned authors and authorities in the field, about all of the above.
One interesting fact here, is that one of the earlier German/Austrian well known historians and scientists of that time, Fallmerayer, alerted Prince Otto and others to this nonsense, of declaring a whole people and place by a name not belonging to them (so experimenting with them as they were guinea pigs), and injecting an extinct artificial language, culture and civilization on people who had no idea about it and did not belong to it at all. Well, Fallmerayer may have proven to be right.
By the way, Fallmerayer, is a banned figure and historian by the dictatorial klepto-theocracy regime in what is called “Greece” today.
Through a thorough fact finding mission and field observations during the same time (of Prince Otto’s installation to power in the region called “Greece” today), another world-renowned German historian, subject-matter expert and scientist of that time, Prof. Hans Heidenauer, came to the conclusion and reported back to German royal authorities that – “there are no ‘Greeks’ whatsoever in the region, they don’t exist – there are only people and a population who speak a language called Arvanite/Albanian and the people call themselves Arvanites/Albanians”.
Another earlier government fact-finding mission about the Albanian inhabited regions in Europe, commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte (Emperor of France) around the year 1800, confirmed that, Albanian regions extended from Mediterranean Sea and Peloponnese up to Dalmatia and Danube river, and eastward beyond Vardar (Dardhar) river bordering Aegean Sea.
By the way, Germany is still paying for the Otto’s racist and ignorance blunder, even today. It has gotten stuck with the country so called “Greece”. It is now forced to pour free money, even today, out of Germany’s pocket (through European Union as well) year after year to keep it alive and going, as this “Greece” cannot stand on its own.
It is an artificial creation of Prince Otto’s ill-conceived fantasy and the malevolent aims of then Russian Empire and the dangerous religious cult/sect called “Anadolli Orthodox” Church – a “zombie”, “fake”, “scam” and a “plagiarized” country so to speak, and the new generations of the Germans and Europeans are continuing to pay the price for it.
To illustrate, during its existence since 1832, this so-called country of “Greece” has changed twice its official language and three times its national flag, and has a mounting present-day debt of over 350 billion dollars to Germany and the European Union.
Moreover, what Prince Otto did back then, is tantamount to a silent ethnic cleansing by alteration (followed later on by mass murder, pogroms, holocaust, and ethnocide by succeeding “Greek” governments).
He forced inhabitants of a whole region/place (called “Greece” today) to change by force their culture, language, national and ethnic identity to something else that those people were not, so they could artificially change in order to look modern and civilized (like artificial ancient “Greeks” in Otto’s personal view) and possibly be united.
And of course, Arvanites and Chams (as the majority population in the region) suffered mostly from this ethnic cleansing – which was later on followed even with mass killings, ethnocide, holocaust, and mass expulsions of Arvanites and Chams (who refused to change and trade their Arvanite/Albanian language for a Koine “zombie” language), by zombie and dwarf “Greek” governments and regimes that followed into the 20th century.
Albanians are the descendants of Pelasgians and Illyrians (since 10,000 years and more ago).
Alexander the Great -was a Pelasgian King of Illyrian/Pelasgian Confederation of Macedonia, falsely presented as “Greek” by con and “planted” historians.
The Trojan War – was a war between Pelasgians and Illyrians – both ancient Albanian kingdoms/confederations, falsely represented as “Greek” by con and planted “historians”.
Homer’s “Iliad and Odyssey” epic poems are Pelasgian era poems – falsely represented as “Greek” by con and planted “historians”.
The Thermopylae Battle – was a battle between Pelasgian army (Sparta – a Pelasgian city) and Persian army, falsely represented as “Greek” battle against Persians by con and planted “historians”.
All this revelation, informs another major and mission critical nodal point: history taught about what is called “Greece” today, it appears to be taught wrong.
People are wrongly taught in schools that today’s “Greece” and its people are the direct descendants of “ancient Greeks”.
“Greece and Greeks” of today, to some extent, also falsely think they are superior to others just because they are called “Greeks” and their country “Greece” by decree (not by the virtue of the truth).
They also seem to falsely believe for some reason, they are entitled to the German and European money being handed out to them – as, it seems, they are unable to create any value-added contribution to the European economy, culture, art, business, science and technology.
“Greece” of today consists, in other words, of a dictatorial klepto-theocratic Nazi regime on low budget, or a Nazi regime on steroid injections by Germany, Russia and BE.
The school textbooks and historiography should change, telling people the truth as it is.
And with this, will come many other changes, in the way we see relations with the country called “Greece” today.
Shkencëtarët e Rinj Shqiptaro-Amerikanë
(Young Albanian-American Scientists)
New York, Qershor 2018
(June 2018) ======================================================================