00:01:33.900When Amschel Meyer Bauer inherited the business,
00:01:37.660he decided to change his name to Rothschild.
00:01:41.400Amschel soon learned that loaning money to governments and kings
00:01:45.140was more profitable than loaning to private individuals.
00:01:49.280Not only were the loans bigger, but they were secured by the nation's taxes.
00:01:54.980Years later, Prime Minister Edirama's Investment Committee handed Atlantic Incubation Partners,
00:02:01.080tied to Kushner's Affinity Partners and Qatari financiers,
00:02:05.620strategic investor status for a multi-billion euro luxury resort empire.
00:02:11.900This included opulent villas and hotels on the uninhabited island plus five miles of beachfront.
00:02:18.080Next to the Vjosa Narda Lagoon, a protected habitat for flamingos, sea turtles, and other wildlife where protected status magically evaporated amid questionable land deals jumping from millions to over a hundred million euros.
00:02:34.480Ivanka called it the culmination of her real estate experience.
00:02:38.720Albanians called it the brazen sale of sovereign land and nature to connected oligarchs who treat entire nations as their private playgrounds.0.66
00:02:49.460That hubris ignited the Flamingo Revolution.
00:02:52.500Starting in May and June of 2026, when bulldozers and fences appeared, tens of thousands speaking
00:02:59.440at reports of up to 200,000 poured into the streets of Albania in the largest sustained