Last Sunday was marked by two political events that were both banal in terms of repetition but also very meaningful in terms of the messages they sent. Berisha held the 6th national protest under the sign of Molotov cocktails that were thrown wherever they could on the streets of Tirana, while Rama had invited 3 young Albanian girls who have studied in People's China to the "Flasim" Podcast. Both events do not constitute news in themselves, but when you see them under the magnifying glass of the continuity of the behavior of the two most important political leaders of the country, it is understood that neither event constitutes either coincidence or spontaneity.

These are two events that, despite being badly thought out and even worse, are part of a "grand strategy" that has been going on for a long time, but which is not one. Because these events are links in a chain of previous events and rhetoric that are united by a clear logical line. But let's take them in turn.

Now the “Basha revolutions” have been converted into “peaceful revolts”. Only the title has changed as the behavior is the same, since 2017 when the “tent of freedom” was lowered into the “loss-making market” of the DP. Two years later when the DP tried to regain courage through strong protests after boycotting the elections and handing over mandates, the result was even more catastrophic. From an electoral balance of 15 municipalities and 43 mandates in 2017, the opposition was lowered to 0 municipalities and 0 parliamentary mandates two years later. But the time that passed rapidly from September 8, 2021, to December 8, 2022, March 6 of the same year, May 14, 2023 and May 11, 2025, did indeed change the representation figures somewhat, but essentially confirmed only a trajectory. Shameful losses. And to fuel the serial losses, Molotov cocktails reappeared to the sounds of the well-known 2019 song "Roza Rozina", walking with flamethrowers from the boulevard to the Parliament, and from Myslym Shyri to Wilson Square.

Result?

Total indifference from citizens, some news on the "third world" pages of some Western newspapers and some dramatic reportage on Russia Today! That's it! In short, "a drop in the ocean" that reinforces Einstein's sentence that "I have doubts about the infinity of the universe, but not about human idiocy."

But this behavior is not as idiotic as it seems. On the contrary, it is intentional. Radicalize to be the center of opposition gravity. Has Berisha, like Basha, succeeded in hitting critical alternatives within the DP through radicalization? Yes. Has this behavior led him to electoral victories?

Just like Basha, exactly not! Then?! Meaning that we are no longer dealing with competitive actions for power but with chaos, half violence and half threats that symbolically spread panic, but that do not scare anyone. Neither Rama, nor SPAK, which is standing over Berisha's head with at least 3 issues, and even less the international community, which is seeing how Iran, while launching missiles and drones indiscriminately, has meanwhile lost the war.

But now let's come to Rama. These unsalted jokes that he makes sometimes with the Chinese, sometimes with the Russians and sometimes with the Serbs do not scare anyone in Washington, nor in Brussels, much less in Berlin and London. On the contrary, they portray him as a politician who jumps out of trouble that only he and they know why. SPAK and Berisha also know something, but that's it. But this strategy of threats of the type "don't bring SPAK to my door because I took Albania by the arm to take it to Beijing and Moscow", resembles Maduro's dances before wearing a hood on his head. The more he pretended to be a global player who threatened American interests in Latin America as a lever for Moscow and Beijing, the more he did not understand that elephants crush hyenas with their feet. And the elephant was the USA!

Therefore, this cannot be called a strategy either, since to threaten you need to have power or warm wings. The geopolitical situation of Europe and the Balkans leaves no margin for success for pirouettes or
"flips" of countries like Albania. You can't do anything, when fate doesn't love you, it doesn't love you! So in short, Rama, like Berisha, is using exactly the same strategy, but at the end of the day it remains chaotic and without results. He has goals, but he lacks the means and power. Whether common interests or similar problems unite the two "brenimie" (friends and enemies at the same time), time will tell.

But one thing is certain: chaos is not a winning strategy, just as newly appointed Ayatollahs either become martyrs or sleep with oxygen tubes in basements. Of course, no one wishes our two leaders the same fate, nor are the possibilities for these scenarios to happen. But symbolically, this is the behavior. Strong movements without a plan. Because there is no talk of “grand strategies.”