Albin Kurti, or how to leave Kosovo in front of the world

The latest episode of the North municipalities crisis speaks of a hostage of Kosovar police from Serbian special units. Sorcering plastics, signs of violence, mafia - style kidnappings, mutual accusations, and in the background the extreme political use of the event to further fuel a complex situation. This is the current panorama on the Kosovo-Serbia border.

It is no wonder that the capture of Kosovo police officers is part of Belgrade's revenge for the arrest of Kosovo authorities, Serbian criminal Milun Milenkovic-Lune, who is accused of being the focus of the attack on Kosovo police and KFOR forces in Zvecan. But it is also not excluded for this act to have clear propagandistic background, to pump the paper that Kosovo is blowing fire by sending armed men to Serbian territory. It is required to insist on the reactor line and Albin Kurti's tension strategy as a politician promoting the quarrel between the two countries. And it should be said that Serbs are making it. Instead of condemning the act, internationals take time and wait. A clear message to Pristina's hard line.

The problem is, in fact, older than the episode of the kidnapping of Kosovo police by Serb forces. It dates most specifically from the moment Prime Minister Kurti decided to send special forces to the local Albanian heads of majority Serb municipalities. An operation that apparently cost the destruction of Americans and Europeans, putting international force soldiers at risk simultaneously, but also members of the Kosovo security device.

The Kosovo government has already created a hearth of tension, which two weeks ago simply did not exist in this part of the continent. It is a negative service to ensure peace and security in the Balkans, at the same time, is a highly unnecessary bottle of gasoline on the fires of war that burn for a year on European soil.

Albin Kurti says words that sound like music to the ears of many on both sides of the Albanian border. They call him genius, they love him, they follow him blind. Puritan Patriotism is very often confused with being intelligent and visionary. Escape from reality and the incorrigibly preaching of an Idelized world is the basic feature of this government that looks more like a religious standard than a management of the concrete challenges facing the country from an executive structure. Looking at the horizon and the future, Albin Kurti regularly neglects currentity, the ranks of commitments and priorities of a leader who heads the daily affairs of a fragile state and without the resources needed in the face of an old Balkan power like Serbia. Albin Kurti's patriotic speaker, whose first victim and fan is Albin Kurti himself, is creating a situation of tension in Kosovo's third reports, which is completely unnecessary and counterproductive.

Before you applaud this dreamy political line, dressed in the rhetoric of the National Renaissance of two hundred years ago, which is also advertising, ideological and manipulative to the entire Albanian public before embracing this perfect journey towards crisis and stalemate, judge Kurt and what he is looking for, with the cold logic of the context in which present Kosovo is present, with the needs she has, with the complex concrete crises that must solve today. Not after a hundred years.

Kosovo is a new, weak and unintegured state in the international system of institutions and nations, a poor and underdeveloped society (such as Albania's), which needs uninhibited Western support. And if Albania has the most need to perfect democracy that has applied for three decades, Kosovo has also added to the urgency of ensuring security, territorial integrity and consolidation of the state. He therefore needs wise, flexible, and able to maneuver on the narrow path of history, not taking his eyes off friends who created him as a State, not calling them ignorant and naive!

Putting his country into a crash course with the US, United Europe and finally Albania, Albin Kurti is offering Kosovo a perfect recipe for crisis and risk. He's eagerly sawing the branch where he's sitting. Leaving your country in such dark times for the entire continent is not wise policy. It's irresponsible politics.