A letter from the World suburb: Why does Trump scare me?

Yesterday Trump wasn't just wrong about himself, he destroyed us all. Even Kosovo has yet to begin anything. But when a president sees states like corporations and alliances as trade deals, he doesn't just make personal mistakes, he changes the rules of the game for everyone. And when the game is based solely on strength and profit, the young have no place on the table.

I saw and experienced the meeting between Donald Trump and Voldymyr Zelensky. I wasn't physically there to understand more, but I was looking at it and feeling the weight of every word, every embarrassing pause and every empty look of Zelensky.

It was a moment that could not pass without experience, even from a man like me, coming from a small country like Kosovo, a suburb of the world that is rarely or almost never seen as a factor. But I felt what I experienced, since I saw and heard Trump and the whole story, and I realized that I am not here to keep quiet, because I know and I know what will happen with Kosovo.

Yesterday there was a severe silence that is a silence that falls on people when the power of the empire appears brutally.

Many prefer not to talk. Perhaps out of fear of what might happen when you tell the truth, perhaps even out of a feeling that it doesn't make sense because those who make decisions don't listen. But I don't believe in silence. I don't believe that illusion that if we don't express our concern, then he doesn't exist. That's why I'm writing my concern from the world's suburbs for the Trump-Zelensky meeting.

What happened at that meeting was not just a clash between two leaders. It was a clear demonstration of a fundamental change in the way great power views the world and its allies.

It was a moment when the language of diplomacy was removed as an unnecessary mask and replaced by a stupid, brutal and with no effort to maintain even the slightest desire for respect.

When the president of the United States told the President of Ukraine that he had no soldiers and was finished, he was not only humiliating Zelensky. He was sending a message to the whole world that if you don't have power, you don't matter.

It was not a political statement, but a proclamation of a new world order, where relations no longer build on common values or alliance stories, but on a clear hierarchy of force and weakness. The powerful over the weak. It was clear that in this new order, small countries have no place but as territories to be exploited or forgotten.

He scared me because he didn't want to understand it or hide it, the difference between a state and an entity.

States create alliances, maintain global balances, build long-term security. Corporations make deals, require benefits, only see the end of the balance.

The White House is not a business office and an international relationship is not a contract where one side can buy the other on behalf of net profit.

When the world's greatest power leader does not understand that distinction, then everything is endangered.

The meeting between Trump and Zelensky was a return to the order of “balance of power” before the two world wars, when diplomacy did not exist and power was the only language spoken.

There was no attempt to find common ground. It was a duel, not a conversation. A battle for dominance, not a search for solutions. And it shows something even more dangerous, that those who govern no longer have the patience to negotiate. They stand in their position and expect the other to surrender.

I come from a small country like Kosovo, a region that knows very well what happens when power treats the weak as useless. History has shown us that when diplomacy fails, there is no vacuum, there is only violence. When the world starts to view small countries as goods to trade and not as allies to defend themselves, then no country is safe anymore.

But for me, this is not just a theoretical matter. This is vulnerable.

I come from a country that exists thanks to the support of its allies. From a country that knows what it means to be small, not having a large army, not having great natural resources to negotiate, not having the influence to buy the world's attention.

I come from Kosovo, a country that knows better than many others what it looks like when the world decides to stop taking care of you.

And for that, I curse this government and Kurt in particular, who did not end the solution to the Kosovo problem.

And that's exactly why I'm scared of what I saw on that date.

Because today is Zelensky who is told to be finished, but tomorrow it could be someone else.

Could be Kosovo!

Because yesterday I saw that America begins to see every relationship with other countries as a trade transaction and not as a strategic engagement between allies.

The question is what will happen to countries that have nothing to offer except their history and the need for support? What will happen to us?

Go back to those countries that will come out as potential candidates to offer protection?

In a world where the language of strength is the only one under exercise, little ones no longer have a voice. And if the great powers decide that small countries are just an unnecessary cost in their strategic balance, then history teaches us that their destiny is not good.

I'm not writing this because I believe my voice can change something. I'm not that naive. But I believe the truth should be said, even if it is not heard.

And maybe, in this dark time, telling the truth is the bravest act we have left.

So I don't like why he's being silent today.

And I know from experience that when silence becomes human life tactic then freedom will be sold as business.

I also know from experience, even though people are silent. They always do it because fear is easier than coping.

And of course, they make calculations with silence because they hope that Trump will go wrong enough to collapse himself.

But those who keep quiet forget one thing, when a leader behaves like a businessman and not as a statesman, he does not make a mistake for himself, he makes the world a bargain with no other value out of winning, and power is the only price.

What I saw on screen at the meeting with Zelensky, let me understand Trump is no longer free America, that's America's business.

I realized that for President Trump, the states are not allies, but clients. And customers either pay or are left to go bankrupt.

Freedom, for him, doesn't make sense if it can't be sold. Diplomacy doesn't matter unless it can capitalize.

Thus, the world turns back to an era where there is no more agreement, security among allies, but only power.

In a order where little ones no longer negotiate their existence because they either buy it or disappear.

And in this new world, where everything has a price, what happens to us? At least not what will happen to Ukraine and the Baltic Countries and Kosovo, but what will happen to the man under Trump's kingdom.

Surely, O Trump will fail, or the world until now based on the order we know, that of security between allies, international law, the force of international institutions will have a terrible end.

That's why his language has no respect, why his meetings look like what they are, an aggressive show and not as diplomatic talks.