The Art of
War
For Italy –
a new government, the same "privileged ally"
Manlio
Dinucci
The
"Contract for the Government of Change" - stipulated by Luigi Di Maio
and Matteo Salvini on behalf of the 5 Star Movement and the League - on the one
hand "confirms Italy's membership
of the Atlantic Alliance, with the United States of America as a privileged
ally”, and on the other, promises "an open-minded attiutude to Russia,
which should be perceived not as a threat but as an economic and commercial
partner (which would imply the withdrawal of sanctions), to be rehabilitated as
a strategic interlocutor for the resolution of regional crises" and even
as a "potential partner for NATO".
The formula
is not new. In June 2016, Prime Minister Renzi assured President Putin that
"the Cold War is now history", and that "Europe and Russia can
be excellent neighbors". A month later, at the Warsaw Summit, Renzi signed
the EU-NATO strategic pact against Russia.
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How can the new government cease
"perceiving" Russia as a threat and act accordingly, while it remains
a member of NATO, which, under the command of the "privileged ally",
is increasingly committed to combating "the Russian threat"?
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The new government intends to
"re-evaluate our participation in international missions in terms of their
real importance for the national interest". Does this mean that it intends
to withdraw the Italian troops deployed
in Latvia and the Italian fighter-bombers deployed in Estonia, close to Russian
territory, on the pretext, invented by NATO, of facing «Russian
aggression»?
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Will it prevent US / NATO commands and
bases in Italy, from Vicenza to Aviano, from Naples to Sigonella, from being
used for military operations against Russia?
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First of all, will the new government
reject the new B61-12 nuclear bombs that the US is preparing to deploy in Italy
against Russia, exposing our country to growing danger as a forward base of US
nuclear strategy?
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Will it refuse to provide the Pentagon
with pilots and fighter-bombers ready for nuclear attack, within the framework
of NATO ?
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Will the new government ask the US to
remove all nuclear weapons from our territory, on the basis of the
Non-Proliferation Treaty, which has so far been violated? Will it adhere to the
UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (as Luigi Di Maio is committed
to do by signing the ICAN Parliamentary Pledge)?
The
decision not to adhere to the UN Treaty was taken before by the Italian
Parliament, in the North Atlantic Council, where according to NATO rules
"there is no vote or majority decision", but "decisions are
taken unanimously and by mutual agreement", that is, in agreement with the
United States of America, to which the leading role of Supreme Allied Commander
in Europe and other key commands are entitled by right.
With regard
to the military industry, the Contract considers "its protection, with
particular regard to the financing of research, for the design and construction
of ships, aircraft and high-tech systems" to be essential.
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What's new in the program of the
"Government of Change", compared to the "White Book for
Defense" institutionalized by the Gentiloni government, which defines the
military industry as the "pillar of our national system"?
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Will the new government stop or continue
participating in the US F-35 fighter program, which commits Italy to buy 90
planes at a cost of 13-16 billion euros?
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With regard to military spending, will
the new government refuse to increase it or will it fulfil the commitment
agreed between previous governments, the US, and NATO, to raise it from the
current 70 million Euros a day to around 100 million Euros a day?
This is
unavoidable expenditure if one wants to maintain the United States of America
as a "privileged ally".
(il manifesto,
NO WAR NO NATO
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