Northern Ireland - United Kingdom --- Since June 8, cities in Northern Ireland, primarily Belfast, Scotland, and England as a whole have been ravaged by neo-Nazi and Islamophobic white supremacist rioters, who took to the streets following a deliberately viral video sponsored by X, which filmed Sudanese political refugee Hadi Alodid attacking NHS worker Stephen Ogilvie for reasons still unknown . Prompted by Tommy Robinson-real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon-and American billionaire Elon Musk, owner of X, who reinstated Robinson on the network after he was expelled from the then-Twitter platform in 2018, protesters burned cars, public transport, and homes inhabited by Black residents, especially those of African descent, clashing with police. Robinson, on the other hand, has already proven himself by organizing the large racist demonstration in London in May, which was then met with an equally well-attended anti-Nazi demonstration.
Musk himself supported the mobilization, urging people to take to the streets, even sharing a list of protest areas in the UK to direct protesters, commenting that "only by protesting repeatedly and loudly will change happen." The intervention of the billionaire, racist, xenophobic, and white supremacist is part of his campaign against Starmer, who relies on the mobilizing and subversive skills of Tommy Robinson, a notorious criminal, preferred by the racist and Islamophobic Musk over Farage, who has officially but feebly distanced himself from the troublemakers.The delegitimization of Starmer and the entire British government is facilitated by its policy of suppressing welfare for the most disadvantaged English classes, abolishing benefits and pensions to raise funds to finance the war in Ukraine, but justified by the expenditure on cracking down on illegal immigration and the reception policy. Yet the blanket is so short that the Labour government's defense minister resigned, citing inadequate defense funding.
The fact is that Starmer is trying to maintain the British tradition of an identical foreign policy pursued by the Conservatives and Labour, aimed at supporting the imperial policy of a country that refuses to realize that the empire has definitively collapsed and that the policy of US hegemony, long pursued by Great Britain, no longer works because a far more effective and skilled criminal, Benjamin Netanyahu, commands and manages Trump's blackmail tools. Meanwhile, the electorate is abandoning him and turning its support to the Greens and independent political groups, putting the British two-party system in crisis, as demonstrated by the latest local elections in the country. The crisis of the British welfare state, that of the healthcare system, and the pro-housing policy promised and supported by the prime minister are increasingly in crisis. This is while inflation bites and erodes the incomes of the population, however, unwilling to wage war, as evidenced by the growing shortages in the navy and army.
The mobilization of the nation's arrow serves, in all seriousness, to create a pool of social misfits from which to draw, replenishing the British armed forces and sending them in search of glory and spoils on the battlefields, with the intention of draining the resources of other countries no more and no less than the Queen's privateers did during the heyday of British rule. A dream destined to fade into the dust.
It's no use that the family of the attacked man themselves declared: "We have many migrants who make an extremely valuable contribution to our country, including in the healthcare system and hospitality sector, and we depend on them for the functioning of our country," stressing that they do not want this "terrible tragedy to be used to divide people or fuel hostility." A sign that another Great Britain still exists.
While all this is happening, Starmer, now exhausted, watches disconsolately as his government falls apart and resigns; On the sidelines, Andy Burnham, the outgoing mayor of Manchester, is flexing his muscles. After resigning, he went on to win a seat in the House of Commons with 55% of the vote in a constituency where Farage had won the local elections a few weeks earlier. Now an MP, Burnham, leader of the Labour left, can run to unseat Starmer and perhaps save Labour from defeat in the next parliamentary elections. Our concerns about the likely new Socialist leader concern not domestic policy, but foreign policy: will he be able to break the continuity of Britain's warmongering and neo-imperialist pro-peace policy, which would allow him to find the resources to save the British welfare state?
Albania
After 13 uninterrupted years in power, Albanian Prime Minister Edy Rama, who distinguished himself by toadying over Giorgia Meloni, kneeling to welcome her and sealing the concession to Italy of the Shëngjin port area (San Giovanni Medua) and the former Gjadër air base, where the complex's other facilities (a reception center, a CPR, and a prison area) are located, has made another of his own . He has decided to sell the Pishë Poro-Narta lagoon, Sazan Island, and the public beaches of Zvërnec, located north of Vlora, to "Affinity Partners," owned by Jared Kushner, his wife Ivanka Trump, daughter of the US president, and the Qatari brothers Moutaz and Ramez Al-Khayyat, to transform it into an exclusive luxury resort with 10,000 accommodations. The Trump scion's appetites apparently arose (as she candidly recounts) during a swim in the lagoon, while the pigeon boat, hunting for bargains, was sailing along the coast of Albania. Others, more likely, maintain that the story dates back a few years when Rama was invited aboard a yacht owned by Nat Rothschild to discuss the island. Before becoming an environmental paradise, it was one of the densest areas of bunkers and underground tunnels dug during the reign of Enver Hoxha. The island was flanked at the southern end of the Bay of Vlora by the Pashaliman (Pasha Liman) submarine base, near the ruins of Oricum. Both installations are located off the Strait of Otranto, slightly wider than the Strait of Hormuz and therefore of great strategic value. The operation is therefore also part of the trend among US billionaires to privatize the management of the world's straits to control trade.
Then there's the allure of islands that appeals to billionaires. It's no coincidence that Kushner lives on a private island off Miami, separated from the mainland by a bridge controlled by private militias. He shares the island with Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg, but not only, with the aim of global geoeconomic control.
Even if one were to think negatively, the initiative is part of a gigantic land development project, paved the way for a controversial law on the protection of Albania's cultural and natural heritage, the result of a lengthy debate in 2024 that dragged on for months, also aimed at allowing the sale of public property. The initiative is supported by a EUR4 billion fund that would contribute to increasing Albania's GDP by 3% to 4% over the next five years and create 10,000 jobs. Albania, after all, possesses an immense, yet largely untapped, archaeological and natural heritage. If properly organized and developed, this heritage would not only boost tourism, making the country a leader in the Mediterranean, but would also allow for fruitful investment and development.
What Rama and his followers could not have foreseen was the fierce public opposition: the area is a nature reserve for wildlife reproduction, an oasis of amphibian biodiversity, the kingdom of the Mediterranean monk seal, the most important nursery for loggerhead sea turtles, a permanent base for around 100 species of aquatic birds represented on naturalist maps, and part of the Adriatic Flyway, home to hundreds of bird species, including a permanent colony of over 3,000 pink flamingos that have become the symbol of the protests.
Since the beginning of June, huge crowds have gathered daily in Skanderbeg Square to march towards the government headquarters, where for the first time he is besieged not by his eternal enemies from the corrupt Berisha party, but by the enraged public, mobilized by environmentalists, even hunters-for once on the same side-as well as by all those Albanians opposed to the sell-off of the country's public assets to the highest bidder.
Besides hurting Rama, what is happening does nothing to benefit Kushner's already damaged public image. He is one of the investors in the Gaza reconstruction and is under investigation by the US judiciary for private speculation he engages in under the cover of his political office. The Albanian prime minister defends himself by stating, "Albania should not be a country that fears an extraordinary project like this, in which exceptional partners have joined together to invest EUR4 billion. There is no way this investment will stop as long as I am here." We'll see.
Armenia
The Armenian parliamentary elections of June 7, 2026, saw Nikol win; his Civil Contract party (KP) won 64 seats . In second place was the new formation Strong Armenia (UH), which won 29 seats, a significant success and surpassed the previous opposition formation Armenian Alliance (HD), which came in third with 12 seats. The conflict was polarized between the first two political formations, the first supporting rapprochement with the EU and the second leaning towards keeping the country within the Eurasian Economic Union, which also includes Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.
The elections are taking place after a profound crisis engulfed the country, stemming from Armenia's defeat at the hands of Turkey-backed Azerbaijan over the control of Nagorno-Karabakh, the ancient Armenian enclave that was completely destroyed and its indigenous population expelled. The Armenian defeat is attributed to Russia's lack of protection, which, engaged in the war in Ukraine, avoided intervening to defend Armenia. However, it is also the result of Pashinyan's ambiguities, which have maintained a two-way policy, on the one hand, winking at the European Union and Armenia's potential EU membership, sponsored by France, and maintaining the partnership with Russia within the CIS. The fact is that Armenia's economy is completely tied to Russia's, and the majority of Armenian exports, which would otherwise be unavailable on the European Union market, go to the Russian market. Furthermore, Russian oil is essential to Armenia's economic development, as it lacks its own sources of supply.
It should also be considered that the resident population barely exceeds 2 million, 1.1 million of whom live in the capital Yerevan. Most of the 10 million Armenians live and work in Russia, whose remittances boost the country's economy. Young Russians who fled to the country to avoid being caught up in the war in Ukraine also make a significant contribution to the Armenian economy. Furthermore, there are numerous ambiguities surrounding Armenian support for Ukraine, which facilitates arms supplies to Kiev. Furthermore, Pashinyan is burdened by the conflict with the Armenian Apostolic Church and its ruling Catholicos, so much so that the country risks being dragged into the inter-Orthodox conflict between the Moscow Patriarchate and the Ecumenical Patriarchate. The Causo is signing up to join an area of great instability, especially since Pashinyan needs allies to form a government.
Bulgaria
The first effects of the recent presidential elections in Bulgaria are being felt. The country, a major producer of bullets and ammunition and a generous supplier to Ukraine, has announced it will stop supplies to the voracious Ukrainians due to the excessive economic cost and because it maintains that Ukraine needs not bullets but men willing to fight . Bulgaria's distancing follows the withdrawal of support from many other Western partners, such as Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Hungary, even in Orbán's absence.
Cuba
The Caribbean island is increasingly struggling under the grip of a vicious embargo. Everything is lacking, from energy to food, while exports are impossible, as are imports of food and basic necessities . It wasn't enough that, following the fall of both embargoes, the Castro brothers relied on a protective umbrella generously provided by the Holy See, in exchange for the return of the Catholic religion to the island. Rubio's political rise in the United States, a Cuban exile, and Trump's growing frustration with the failure of his policies of global appropriation, especially in the Americas, demand satisfaction. It seems like picking a fruit now ripe for boasting to the American public, disgusted by Trump's failures, and especially to the Cuban exile community settled in Florida, about the fall of their hated enemy. As for those who think they can return to Cuba and regain what was expropriated from them when they fled the country with Battista's troops, they will likely be disappointed and will not have an easy life. Whatever happens, the people do not forget, and if they think they can restore the situation as it was, they have profoundly miscalculated: 73 years of revolutionary rule have not passed without leaving profound traces.
Colombia
The second round of the presidential election in Colombia took place on June 21st: the far-right candidate reportedly received 49.67% of the vote, beating his rival, Iván Cepeda, who only received 48.69% . The left-wing candidate claims there was fraud and is therefore speaking of a recount and a "preliminary, unofficial result." The situation is currently uncertain, as is the case in neighboring Peru, where the vote is currently being recounted.
The Editorial Staff
https://www.ucadi.org/2026/06/27/osservatorio-politico-12/
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