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

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

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Post by rapind »

bkovacev wrote: post #3

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...

That Ivanka podcast interview about this island will go down as a masterpiece in tone-deafness. I assume there are already memes of it.

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

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Post by Sharlin »

HumblyTossed wrote: post #49

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.

These poor billionaires are just trying to make ends meet like any of us.

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

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Post by Sharlin »

thefz wrote: post #48
fooblaster wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

unfortunately this trolling has caused trump to try to halt all large offshore wind projects in the United States in federal land grants. it's terrible.

Yep absolutely this and not at all big oil money/interest.

Why not both?

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

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Post by ToucanLoucan »

totetsu wrote: post #19

I wonder how many more things like this are happening under the radar around the world

Every time you hear about some corpo or another getting to "play a role in the development of $nation" it's pretty much always going to be some kind of bullshit that will employ a lot of locals for shit wages to provide a product or service to residents of the Global North.

There are exceptions of course but the vast, vast, vast majority are tourist trapping and wealth extraction.

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

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Post by 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.

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

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Post by whatever1 »

annagio_ wrote: post #44

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.

Don't forget that resorts et al typically belong to international capital, and the tourists rarely leave the premises.

So what does the local economy get out of it? A few maids salary to clean up the tourist's shit?

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

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Post by titzer »

orwin wrote: post #25

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Unlike most places in Europe, America has never had a revolution where they deposed the ruling class and those with political power. Americans tell themselves they live in a free country with a government run by the people. It is increasingly obvious that that is a lie.
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