Why does Tim Walz's billionaire buddy Alex Soros love the drug state of Albania?

Alex Soros was among the first big names to support Vice President Kamala Harris as President Joe Biden's campaign imploded, and he took a photo with Walz at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago last month, where the left-wing oligarch referred to himself as “.” . Walzpilled!” Nevertheless, the rendezvous on Tuesday at the investor's palatial New York residence attracted attention, at which Walz appeared submissive to his patron.

Republican pundits were quick to express disdain at how Walz, the vaunted “man of the people,” kowtowed to the scion of the Soros dynasty. Walz's performance as the ultimate radical nepo-baby didn't exactly fit with how the “middle class” Harris and her vice president portrayed themselves to voters. However, this is exactly what voters should expect from a Harris-Walz presidency when the pair takes office on January 20 and gives Alex Soros everything he wants in return for his money and advertising.

This has implications that go beyond domestic politics and the usual pay-to-play with left-wing big donors that have lurked behind Democratic presidencies for decades. Although almost no one in the media has bothered to acknowledge it, Alex Soros has worrying foreign connections that warrant closer examination.

For reasons difficult to decipher, Alex Soros takes a keen interest in Albania, an impoverished Balkan country of fewer than 3 million people that has no place in the global economy outside of crime (Albania's GDP is less than half that of all of the United States). state, while per capita it is between Armenia and Barbados). However, Alex Soros spends a lot of time in Albania and meets with his long-time Prime Minister Edi Rama.

Since 2012, Rama has ruled Albania as his personal fiefdom, leading his Socialist Party and at the same time turning the country into an authoritarian hole of corruption, as even human rights organizations that are hardly critical of the left clearly admit. Under Rama, enemies of the socialists were harassed, silenced and arrested. If you want to learn how to use lawfare to eliminate political rivals under the guise of “fighting corruption,” Rama’s Albania is your guide.

What's worse, Rama's tenure has resulted in his small country becoming Europe's center for the illegal drug trade. Rama has “turned Albania into an autocratic drug state,” as a top German news magazine that is hardly right-wing recently put it.

As I have reported, Rama's Albania has become indispensable to the global trade in illegal drugs, particularly cocaine, destabilizing countries on several continents in the process. The Biden administration has a strange tolerance for Rama's drug state in Europe, insisting that socialist Albania excels at fighting crime when the opposite is true. Even Rama's involvement in the shameful corruption of former FBI special agent Charles McGonigal, one of the worst scandals in FBI history, did not help tarnish Rama's reputation with the Biden-Harris administration.

It's worth asking whether Alex Soros's friendship with Rama has anything to do with this inexplicable leniency in Washington, DC. To say that the billionaire is in love with the socialist leader is putting it mildly. Alex Soros shows up in Tirana, the capital of Albania (hardly a jet-setting destination), and regularly posts stark photos of his just-us-bros moments with Rama. He publicly refers to Rama as “my brother in Tirana” and “my brother from another mother,” with Rama, a 6-foot-2 former basketball player, towering over the much smaller oligarch.

Since there isn't much to legally invest there and presumably basketball isn't the only thing being talked about, it seems important to know why Alex Soros considers Tirana his second home. His deep connection with Rama is difficult to explain.

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If the Harris-Walz presidency plans to allow Alex Soros to dictate policy in the White House, Republicans will very soon have to ask themselves why left-wing philanthropist Ramas considers Albania, the definition of a socialist authoritarian kleptocracy, such a good role model that you can emulate.

Because if this is what the Democrats want to do with America, voters have a right to know.

John R. Schindler served as a senior intelligence analyst and counterintelligence officer at the National Security Agency.