Kosovo in Crisis: Is Grenell Engineering Another Political Coup?

From diplomacy to disinformation, Grenell resurfaces, fuelling chaos in Kosovo’s elections with the same tactics that toppled Kurti’s government in 2020.

The year is 2025, and Richard Grenell, a figure whose diplomatic career has been marked by controversy, deception, and a pattern of political manipulation, has once again resurfaced in the Kosovo political landscape. His latest move, a tweet attacking Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti, echoes a familiar strategy, one previously dissected in a European Parliament report from February 2021. This report, based on information gathered throughout 2020, meticulously documented how Grenell orchestrated the downfall of Kurti’s first administration through a manufactured crisis and disinformation campaign. Five years later, the playbook remains unchanged: leverage misinformation, exploit personal political ties, and undermine democratic institutions to serve narrow geopolitical interests.

In early 2020, as outlined on pages 25 and 26 of the European Parliament report titled Mapping Fake News and Disinformation in the Western Balkans and Identifying Ways to Effectively Counter Them, Grenell en…