When Enver Hoxhaj wrote about the war

What was thought of as a wicked job that would come close to work for days has become a world nightmare that has been played on stage with real actors for a year.

When the Russian war machine, military planes, rockets, and tanks attacked Ukraine, many were judged only by humiliating peace conditions that would impose the victim. And when modestly, in the Albanian parliament hall or some extremely lonely television study voice stated that at Europe's most eastern border, it was fought for knowing the new European reality, Kosovo, the vast crowds of naive people who roared consider it an argument, those who in the era of computers continue to make calculations and who dress with the shame of ignorance, make shame themselves, had conviction that in the clash of two worlds, civilization was counting the new prospect of failure. Fortunately, this did not happen! Thanks to Ukrainian heroism and international allies with the U.S. top, Cynics and Easterns in mind, neobolsheviks and all those indiscriminately who are twinning with Mr. Putin's Russian mathematician, now experience deep disappointment. All of them, day after day, on every day of this bloody year, have had the chance to be denied in their false belief that in the match between the two systems, autisms are favored. Today, the only unknown thing is not the name of the winner of war, but the price that will still have to be paid for peace, and what are the scenarios that will be played in Russia's posttagreism.

This is a year of reflection for even the modest borders of the Albanian world. This and that way, Morina, in Tirana and Pristina, can be counted formally with hundreds of people who consider politics their profession. Each of them can count on hundreds and hundreds of talks per head, but there are only less than half a dozen of them who have been able to write a book. Enver Hoxhaj, former foreign minister of the Republic of Kosovo and MP, published after just a month of war outbreak, a research job dedicated to the tragedy taking place at the edge of Europe. The big crash. How Russia is fighting Kosovo and the Balkans”, it is an excellent manual to understand not only what is happening thousands of miles away, but especially is the light it throws on the war points with the Albanian world in the Balkans and the region itself in general. A practical orientation guide for today and a set of concrete proposals for the Albanian and regional tomorrow.

Each book has its own destiny, and it usually does not depend on the quality of writing. There are a number of factors that leave out the book's destiny and the author who writes, as well as the reader who houses it in the library. Hoxhaj's book lost its voice in noise or more accuracy, its voice did not feel enough because it went beyond the scenario with ordinary political matches, with that mediocre scratch associated as a rule, and not except the everydayity of two Albanian states. The waterdrop where this daily density sank refused to reach this original source of ideas and attitudes. The book seemed inappropriate as horse saddle in the haurin, where the asses are shockingly many.

Since April last year Hoxhaj joined, perhaps as the only Albanian so far, with that international scholar club trying to explain what was happening. The author testifies to his idea that the Euro-Atlantic failure in preventing the conflict was accompanied by Western ability to respond to it. Hoxhaj explains that in spite of all expectations, what was thought of as a deadly coup for democracy, was brought to the geopolitical scene as a better chance for its perfection, what was thought of as provincial isolation within the national border of countries afraid of aggression, turned into a factor that affects even more, even more strongly the need for co-operation and openness.

The new geopolitical bus, rewrite new rules of co-existence and, above all, the impact of this tragedy in all Balkan space, and especially in Kosovo, receives alternative answers in this book. The excellent knowledge of history has fortunately given Hoxhat the right instrument to explain the future. From the traditional Russian approach to Kosovo and to Mr. Putin's personal, to the return of Russian ambitions in the Balkans, from reports with Serbia to this peak triangle to her big Slavic brother until tomorrow's transformation of Europe in response to today's tragedy, these are the main points of a book that will not explain and comment, but must be read. Even now more than a year before it was published. Reorient or emphasising the formally different priorities of Kosovo without changing the final objective are a book advice that should be listened attentively, whether in official Pristina, whether in Tirana, to support and support Kosovo unconditionally.

Kosovo's NATO membership, the Council of Europe and recognition by the five still suspicious European five are the necessary steps in response to the frozen status of not only Kosovo, but the entire region. “Peace is just a temporary lack of war”, it is a warning to actors and political factors that the frozen situation sees as permanent goal, not as temporary stage, even more harmful than possible painful movements.

War is never what appears on television news or in media coverage. War is not a simple statistic involving the counting of rockets, lines of dead, wounded or convoys of refugees displaced in horror and the struggle for survival. War is neither a tale of dramatic personal events, a hunger match, or a destruction of everyday life. It's much more than breaking the routine, it's much more than the picture of kids that don't go to kindergarten, books that aren't written, songs that aren't sung, lands that don't plant or love that don't fall in love because the baby's been killed in the house, are blown by shells at the front of the writer, singer and farmer. Because the war killed the daughter and son of a broken romance. War is also an opportunity to appreciate the value of peace, and the universal lecture is worth paying any price for war to reach peace.

Enver Hoxhat's book provides his own answers. Other authors may have allerative truths different from that. But, basically, Hoxhaj somehow escaped the honor of the political class that represents writing a book that remains in the era of forgotten speeches. Published by UET Press, he is a precious helper to understand the modest place that Albanian space resides in this endless and vicious world. A world in which even when we can't dictate our game conditions, we should at least understand its rules. Otherwise, we're lost. All lost!