Alex Soros was among the first big names to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris when President Joe Biden’s campaign imploded, and he did a photo op with Walz at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago last month, where the left-wing oligarch proclaimed himself to be “Walzpilled!” Nevertheless, Tuesday’s rendezvous at the investor’s palatial New York City residence, when Walz appeared submissive toward his benefactor, got attention.

Republican pundits were quick to heap scorn on how Walz, the touted salt-of-the-earth “man of the people,” kowtowed to the scion of the Soros dynasty. Walz’s appearance with the ultimate radical nepo baby wasn’t exactly compatible with how “middle class” Harris and her running-mate portray themselves to voters. However, giving Alex Soros whatever he wants, in exchange for his cash and publicity, is exactly what voters should expect a Harris-Walz presidency to do if the pair take office on Jan. 20. 

This has implications beyond domestic politics and the usual pay-to-play involving left-wing big donors who have lurked behind Democratic presidencies for decades. Although almost nobody in the media has bothered to notice, Alex Soros has troubling foreign connections that merit scrutiny.  

For reasons that are difficult to decipher, Alex Soros demonstrates a high degree of interest in Albania, an impoverished Balkan country with fewer than 3 million people that doesn’t chart in the global economy outside crime (Albania’s GDP is less than half of any U.S. state while on a per capita basis it ranks between Armenia and Barbados). That said, Alex Soros spends a lot of time in Albania, hanging out with its longtime Prime Minister Edi Rama. 

Since 2012, Rama has run Albania as his personal fiefdom, helming his Socialist Party while turning the country into an authoritarian sinkhole of corruption, as even human rights outlets that are hardly critical of the Left keenly admit. Under Rama, enemies of the Socialists have been harassed, silenced, and arrested. If you want to learn how to employ lawfare to shut down political rivals under the guise of “fighting corruption,” Rama’s Albania is your guide. 

What’s even worse is Rama’s tenure has witnessed his little country becoming Europe’s hub for the illegal drug trade. As a top German newsmagazine that’s hardly on the Right recently put it, Rama “has transformed Albania into an autocratic narco-state.”

As I’ve reported, Rama’s Albania has become indispensable to the global trade in illegal drugs, especially cocaine, destabilizing countries on multiple continents in the process. The Biden administration possesses a strange tolerance for Rama’s narco-state in Europe, insisting that Socialist Albania is doing a fine fighting crime when the opposite is the truth. Even Rama’s involvement in the shameful corruption of former FBI special agent in charge Charles McGonigal, one of the worst scandals in the history of the bureau, did nothing to tarnish Rama’s reputation with the Biden-Harris administration. 

It’s worth asking if Alex Soros’s friendship with Rama has something to do with this inexplicable leniency in Washington, D.C. To state that the billionaire has a man crush on the Socialist leader is putting it mildly. Alex Soros shows up in Tirana, Albania’s capital (hardly a jet-set destination), posting cringeworthy photo ops of his just-us-bros moments with Rama on a regular basis. He publicly terms Rama “my brother in Tirana” and “my brother from another mother,” with Rama, a 6-foot-7 former basketball player, towering over the much shorter oligarch.  

Since there’s not much legal to invest in there, and presumably, they’re not just discussing basketball, 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 need to ask very soon why the left-wing philanthropist considers Rama’s Albania, the definition of a Socialist authoritarian kleptocracy, such a fine model to emulate.

Because if that’s what Democrats have in store for America, voters have a right to know.  

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