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<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\nBy Habjon Hasani<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n On the afternoon of June 13, 2026, a scion of the Rothschild financial dynasty, Nathaniel, publiclystated his position for the first time regarding the protected area of Butrint in Albania.\u00a0This public position by Nathaniel Rothschild comes at a time when Albania is engulfed in antigovernment protests over protected areas \u2014 a story centered on Albanian Prime Minister Edi<\/span><\/p>\n Rama, but one that also involves relatives of President Trump, investment funds from Qatar,\u00a0landholders in Albania investigated for cocaine trafficking, all accompanied by the paranoia of online influencers.<\/span><\/p>\n The record so far is held by Candace Owens in the United States, who is doing everything she can to make this entire narrative be interpreted through an emphasis on the Rothschild surname, perhaps because that surname carries suggestive power and makes one sound more interesting when speaking to an audience that has no idea where Albania is located. <\/span><\/p>\n This article will attempt to shed light on the real role of the figures involved in this story, and we will use the method of \u201cinverse reasoning\u201d; like Candace Owens, we too will tell the story while keeping Nathaniel Rothschild and his role as our point of reference. First of all, we must define two entirely different axes through which he is connected to Albania and to its protected areas, and we will analyze each axis separately.<\/span><\/p>\n Axis 1 \u2014<\/strong><\/em> Nathaniel Rothschild as an acquaintance and friend of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump,\u00a0who are involved in the investment in Zv\u00ebrnec.<\/span><\/p>\n Axis 2 \u2014<\/strong> <\/em>Nathaniel Rothschild as a scion of the family that has been caring for the protected area\u00a0of Butrint in Albania for three decades.<\/span><\/p>\n ***<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Axis 1 \u2014 The yacht, Jared, Ivanka, Edi Rama, the project<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n In July 2021, while Donald Trump was at his lowest political point and under investigation,\u00a0Nathaniel Rothschild invited Jared Kushner and his wife Ivanka to his villa in Corfu, Greece, to\u00a0spend their holidays together. An unusual Albanian figure, a friend of Nathaniel Rothschild named\u00a0Auron Tare, also contacted Albania\u2019s Prime Minister Edi Rama so that he could join this group on\u00a0the yacht. Unlike Donald Trump, in 2021 Edi Rama was at the height of his power: he had won a\u00a0third term in Albania, Joe Biden had been elected President in Washington, while Edi Rama was\u00a0communicating on WhatsApp with U.S. Secretary of State Blinken; both are also friends of\u00a0George Soros.<\/span><\/p>\n The conversation that day on the yacht appears to have had a mostly formal tone, while at that\u00a0time Jared Kushner seemed encouraged to make investments in the state of Serbia. The person\u00a0encouraging and pushing Kushner to focus on Serbia was Richard Grenell. From that moment onward, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama maintained his relationship with\u00a0Jared Kushner through Richard Grenell, and the latter became the key link between them. Rama\u00a0was not comfortable having Nathaniel Rothschild and Auron Tare underfoot \u2014 especially the\u00a0latter, who seemed excessively bothersome with his fixations on Albania\u2019s protected areas. Rama\u2019s insistence on working with Jared Kushner through Grenell\u2019s channel became obvious\u00a0when, two years later, Nathaniel Rothschild suggested that Auron Tare become manager of the\u00a0Sazan tourism project, but this proposal never received any response.\u00a0Auron Tare\u2019s proposal to manage Sazan Island was not a whim of Nathaniel Rothschild.\u00a0Earlier, Auron Tare had been involved in two research projects concerning Sazan. The first was\u00a0conducted by the American RPM Nautical Foundation: a 10-year underwater research project\u00a0based in Sazan. The second was linked to a French state project in Sazan \u2014 France\u2019s\u00a0Conservatoire du Littoral \u2014 aimed at creating a scientific research center for marine studies.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n So, contrary to what Mrs. Candace Owens claims in the United States, as if Sazan Island were a\u00a0forgotten place that no one knew and one fine day Ivanka pointed at it from the yacht, in reality\u00a0this island had been studied by American and French institutions.\u00a0Auron Tare, who brought Edi Rama onto Nathaniel Rothschild\u2019s yacht, was precisely the person\u00a0involved in both of these projects.\u00a0But Rama did not want Tare underfoot. Tare had fulfilled his mission: he had made the\u00a0introduction to Kushner on the yacht. From then on, relations with Kushner would be managed by\u00a0Grenell.<\/span><\/p>\n Sometime around 2024, the first doubts began to emerge about the Sazan Island project. It did\u00a0not seem to make much sense. Feasibility studies showed that the cost-benefit ratio was\u00a0inverted. Precisely that year, the alternative tourism project in the Bay of Narta, in Zv\u00ebrnec, was\u00a0adopted.\u00a0The main territory of this project area was held by a figure named Artur Shehu. He is officially\u00a0under indictment for participation in a structured criminal group and is suspected of leading an\u00a0international cocaine trafficking network from Latin America. The arrest warrants by the Albanian\u00a0prosecution were issued last week, at the height of the massive protests being held in Tirana over\u00a0Zv\u00ebrnec.<\/span><\/p>\n International media interest prompted Jared Kushner to explain how he met Prime Minister Edi\u00a0Rama, and naturally he mentioned Nathaniel Rothschild\u2019s yacht. This moment activated the\u00a0paranoia of many people who heard this emblematic surname, which was followed by theories\u00a0about \u201cdark forces,\u201d when in fact the guarantor and key node of the Kushner-Rama relationship\u00a0has been Richard Grenell.<\/span><\/p>\n Edi Rama chose his own channel as early as the 2022 Davos summit; he made sure that Nathaniel Rothschild and his Albanian friend Auron Tare remained out of the game. It is Richard Grenell who is the mastermind of this relationship and perhaps a beneficiary of the tourism project in Zv\u00ebrnec. A project that, unusually, indirectly links relatives of the U.S. president, through spirals of interest, with international drug traffickers.<\/span><\/p>\n Edi Rama and Richard Grenell are exclusively the two people who cooked up the scandal that has\u00a0now erupted in Albania.<\/span><\/p>\n ***<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Axis 2 \u2014 Butrint, the Rothschild family, the Washington-Tirana clowns<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Prime Minister Edi Rama may perhaps be right when he says today that he began the Zv\u00ebrnec\u00a0project with Jared Kushner at a time when it was not known whether Donald Trump would end up\u00a0in prison or be re-elected president. Likewise, it is easy to observe that Trump\u2019s political\u00a0opponents are turning their spotlights toward Albania because the U.S. midterm elections are\u00a0approaching. <\/span><\/p>\n Although there is no criminal liability or implication of Jared Kushner with the\u00a0suspected drug traffickers who hold the land, the indirect connection is good material for political\u00a0warfare and anti-Trump rhetoric in the United States.\u00a0But there is one trace, however, that proves conclusively that Edi Rama, through Richard Grenell,\u00a0used a visit by Ivanka Trump for his own political credit.\u00a0In Albania, the Special Prosecution Office, SPAK, is strongly supported by U.S. institutions. In\u00a0January 2026, SPAK was seeking the removal of Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku\u2019s\u00a0immunity and her arrest, a request that Rama was preparing to block.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nA few months later, at the Davos summit, Edi Rama and Jared Kushner met again. This time, it appears that their common contact, Richard Grenell, had expanded the scope of ambition beyond Serbia and had coordinated discussions between them about possible tourism investments in Albania. At the 2022 Davos meeting, the possibility of a project on Albania\u2019s Sazan Island was mentioned for the first time.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nGrenell was far more comfortable and suitable. He does not care at all about archaeology or\u00a0protected areas; such things seem like nonsense to him. Money and profit are Grenell\u2019s compass,\u00a0a trait highly pleasing to Albania\u2019s prime minister. Add to this the fact that Grenell maintained\u00a0relations with and exerted strong influence over certain figures in Albania\u2019s opposition; in this way,\u00a0he was a kind of guarantor that the business would proceed without political noise.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n