Finally, Albania and Croatia are now a full-status members of NATO. The much awaited day has come and people can feel good about it. The invitations were issued by the U.S.A. president Barack Obama and were signed by the Albanian President Bamir Topi and the Croatian one – Stipe Mesic.
However, as I write about this major event for the whole country I don’t feel that I want to add any more comments and thoughts than what I’ve done in a previous post Improving Prospects:
Personally I think it is about time that we joined. And I say this not so much as a sign of the achievements of the current government, but first and foremost for the people of this country. As regards the current political class, there is great disappointment. However, such developments do bring about a renewed hope and a fresh awareness that things will improve in some form or fashion. Much has to be done, and Albania has still to face up to the illness of corruption and many other important issues affecting its people.
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No big deal about NATO, outside the fact that you’re gonna have to send soldiers to conflict zones and pay them with millions of $ + buying millions of $ worth of equipment from other NATO countries.
We’ve been in NATO for a few years now (Romania) and the most important things that it brought were: 14 soldiers dead in Afghanistan and Irak, a huge scandal of corruption when we bought 2 (old, about to be sank) frigates from the British, other forced investments of hundreds of millions of $ in the army and another scandal of corruption because now we need to buy 40 fighter planes for the airforce and we have 3 options: used F15 from the Americans, Eurofighter Typhoon planes from Germany/France and IAS Grippen planes from Sweden. And the problem is who will get this contract worth many billions of $ and the scandal already started with a few airforce generals being sacked because they opposed the F15’s, talk about politicians being bribed etc…
I don’t know if NATO is that much good, the E.U. is more important because money can come from them but the E.U. won’t receive anyone unless that country sells what it has best to European companies. They took everything from Romania, every big company, every strategic sector including the oil from the ground (!) which is not Romania’s anymore, it belongs to OMV now.
It’s a big shit, they control everything and we struggle to survive.
I am afraid that the same will happen with Albania as well. The funds that we have to pay to NATO has already started to increase, meanwhile accession into the EU is several years away, but still all our major industries are controlled by foreign companies. I guess our countries could exchange their names, and no body would notice the difference 🙂
Thanks for sharing..
NATO is important for Albania and Albania is important for NATO.
Serbian jackals as russian extended arm can be stopped and exterminated in case of agression on Kosovo, Macedonia or Croatia.
Long live NATO!