Far more than a speaker’s fee.
Now it sounds like YOU’RE the one who’s afraid of the truth.
Pffft! That's a mediocre speaker's fee in the US! Guys that do speeches at High School Graduations pull down more than that! LOL!
You've obviously never tried to do any kind fund-raising among American Serbs. If McKenzie got a whopping $15,000 in speakers fees, it was a one-time big deal effort to raise it. American Serbs make the Scots look like "spendthrifts" when it comes to the kind of fund-raising you are talking about, which is partly why they have been so poor at getting their message across.
On the other side of the issue, the Albanians had a mafia that was more than willing to open their very large, narco-sex slaving purses on their behalf, because Kosovo was the center of their trade.
Today's Kosovo is the largest money-laundering center in the world -- not just for the Albanian mafia, but also for EU and US politicians and their business cronies. They collectively take millions (billions) of our tax dollars, pour it into Kosovo, and yet nothing there changes for the better. Kosovo still only has power for a few hours a day, almost 50% of the population are still unemployed, new mosques are sprouting like weeds and the handful of ridiculously rich are building larger houses, but the majority of residents are living in abject poverty. It's a joke -- a very bad joke -- at US & EU taxpayers expense!
Check out this video made for Greek TV before Kosovo declared independence, on Kosovo's economic viability as an independent state. It's subtitled in English and it points out the level of corruption. Most of the people in it are Albanians and they speak their mind.