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Defense Op-Ed December 22, 2025

How did Albania join NATO?

Perhaps many people are wondering why Albania quickly joined NATO without going through the caudine forks of drastic evaluations at the waist and allonge of democracy. Today, in a public confession, worthy of breaking news, Romanian general Gabriel Oprea makes the big unveiling of the month: in 2015, when he was prime minister, after the resignation of Victor Ponta, an adviser to US Vice President Joe Biden visited him at the Victoria Palace and asked him to relocate three thousand mujahideen and their families from Iran. He refused that solution, considering an antinational act, invoking the escalating risks of terrorist actions on Romanian territory. It is worth mentioning that at that time, dozens of western states were targets of jihadist Islamic rebel groups.

Any historical judgment is made in context.

I knew the story of the three thousand mujahideen rejected by the Romanian state. I did not know that through the act of bravery of Gabriel Oprea, Albania would enter NATO.

Today, Edi Rama’s regime in Tirana is the most corrupt in all NATO member states. The drug networks are directly controlled by CIA officers. Immigrant trafficking is at its highest level. Evasion is the largest in the region. Albanians are used in Italy as racquets.

All the evils of the earth are forgiven to Edi Rama, for helping three thousand mujahideen, supporters of the old regime, Reza Pahlavi, to be in Albania in the secret camps.

Romania could be the target of fratricidal wars between Muslim brotherhoods. A country that has maintained historic ties with all the factions of the Arab world.

Unwillingly or perhaps well advised, General Oprea has kept Romania, in the context of a strong relationship with the Middle East.

I never asked him if the Hezbollah rebels were trained in Romania during the time of Nicolae Ceausescu. Maybe it’s all a legend.

Through today’s testimony, it is confirmed that I do not know how many times the intervention of the American Deep State in Romania. Middle and high-ranking advisers used the country as a tactical laboratory to increase insurgency and propaganda climates.

The United States no longer supports the Pahlavi regime. No one believes in the restoration of the monarchical regime of the past. Even America has disengaged from the protectorate granted half a century ago to the regime of Tirana, which is extremely unpopular.

Through his disclosure, General Oprea made a lymph drainage in NATO. Now, it is known how Albania entered NATO.

By Marius Ghilezan

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