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Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'

Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'

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Comments (177)

  • bkovacev
    Jared Kushner tried a similar thing in Serbia[0] and failed after a public outrage.[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/12/17/serbia-trump...
  • annagio_
    Half of Albania is butchered like this, beaches and green being destroyed to make resorts for the tourists to come. Go see Dermi or Vuno and then go see Borsh how clean it is, with no excavations at all or resorts being build.
  • adjejmxbdjdn
    I simply don’t understand how American voters are fine with being robbed blind.Many countries have far more corrupt administrations than the current U.S. one, but even in the most degenerate ones none of them are as open about it.And it’s not just a political thing.Consider how the Chinese owned Smithfield’s is polluting lakes and land all over the Midwest with their highly intensive (and incredibly cruel) pig farming that is causing high cancer and mortality rates for the people living there, and yet the locals tend to support whatever Smithfield wants.
  • totetsu
    I wonder how many more things like this are happening under the radar around the world
  • rnxrx
    Maybe it’s naive, but there’s something incredibly hopeful that there are folks not only protesting this kind of corruption, but also that there’s a government actually responding to the voice of the people. That the EU’s own legal frameworks might positively (if indirectly) affect things is even better.
  • pjc50
  • toasty228
    The rich are getting too openly greedy and complacent again, they're slowly forgetting about history, can't wait to see how it pans out in the next decades.https://www.prosperosisle.org/spip.php?article1196
  • sys_64738
    I thought Albania still had concrete bunkers around the coast to keep unwanted invaders OUT.
  • ifjfkfkfkfj
    It is just Russia trying to undermine US president! We seen this type of protests several times!
  • Brendinooo
    What is this news source? I've never heard of it before and there are no names associated with it on their site. Two of their social media links are broken. Their YouTube channel was only active for like a year, 4-5 years ago. It all feels strange.
  • adf-aslk
    This island was a Russian naval base in the cold war with hundreds of underground nuclear bunkers.Kushner apparently wants to build a billionaire resort with the protections required to insulate billionaires from their actions. Maybe UAE is too dangerous now.Here is another article. Try not to be put off by the Rothchild connections, they are mostly irrelevant and based on Kushner's own statements:https://tomselliott.substack.com/p/what-is-jared-kushner-act...
  • Havoc
    It’s crazy that the US is now run by these clowns out to enrich themselves
  • Kapura
    I hate these rich motherfuckers so much. They are openly corrupt, and move through the world with impunity on a magic carpet of wealth. Not only must the individuals be stopped, but the systems that allow nonstate actors to wield effectively unlimited funds must be rebuilt.
  • 0x59
    Silver lining - It's not oil/gas extraction or mining.
  • mrKola
    RnB, BnB
  • lifestyleguru
    The T family acts as everyone expected and warned, they are not stopping, and they are even accelerating. I'm not sure what is the conclusion from this.
  • jeffbee
    Are we sure they're not just negotiating over the price?
  • qwlart
    Weird flagging in this submission. Pointing out that billionaires build nuclear bunkers is not allowed even though it is public knowledge.
  • throw343
    Trump is gonna put tariffs on Albania very soon
  • hereme888
    The evidence so far hints more at Albania’s weak rule of law/property/environmental governance and ugly conflict-of-interest more than Kushner being part of some evil conspiracy.
  • shevy-java
    The USA is currently run by oligarchs. They try to buy their way into other countries via corruption. How much kickback did the government of Albania get already? It is highly suspicious how supportive they are of Trump.
  • orwin
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  • gigatexal
    YES! More of this. Such places and people are not for sale. What kind of sickos think they can just see a place and say "I've got money, these know-nothing-barefoot-fools will take our money and let us rape their lands!"?And on top of that it's Trump kids, yeet them into the sea.
  • roysting
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  • HumblyTossed
    Some of the messaging around this by the people trying to build this out is so tone deaf. I think they know and that's why they're building bunkers.
  • armchairhacker
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  • appplication
    This is off topic and I understand we’re not supposed to comment on such things, but was anyone else mystified by the decisions that went into the scroll progress bar up top (on mobile)? It seems to be two part, where part of it would accurately reflect your scroll state, while the other had some weird latency associated with it. And then it ended up hidden behind the top of page blur unless you scrolled very aggressively, to the point where the blur could not keep up.