A-Infos (en) Sicilia Libertaria: THE CORPORATE NARRATIVE OF MILITARY KLEPTOCRACY (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

According to a certain narrative, which presents itself regardless of 
its total unrealism, the government of the self-styled sovereignists 
would have surrendered to the new formulation of the Stability Pact 
imposed by Germany and France, as if these two countries were today in a 
position to be taken seriously by someone. Little Italy has never needed 
to be taught austerity by others, and deflation (the "lesina") is 
historically a value of our establishment; for which the "European 
constraints" have always served as an alibi and a screen for our own 
avarice. Moreover, certain historical precedents represent an Italian 
unicum. In 1976 Guido Carli, having just concluded his mandate as 
governor of the Bank of Italy, went to preside over Confindustria; 
therefore the head of the creditors' lobby became the director of a 
debtors' association; as if to reiterate that finance is more important 
than industry and, if necessary, must be sacrificed to the stability of 
the currency and the protection of the value of credits. In fact, the 
deindustrialization of Italy began in 1976; starting, as always, from 
the South. Many companies, instead of reinvesting the subsidies received 
from the government into production, used them to buy Treasury bonds. 
Furthermore, we are the only country where two former central bankers 
(Einaudi and Ciampi), that is, two heads of the creditors' assistance 
body, have become presidents of the Republic; and, if that naive Mario 
Draghi had not allowed himself to be fooled by Mattarella, today we 
would even have a third. (1)

However, the deflation lobby, i.e. the financial kleptocracy, has 
granted an exemption to the military kleptocracy. The Minister of 
Defense, Guido Crosetto, has in fact triumphantly announced that the 
text of the new version of the Pact would provide for the separation of 
military investments from budget constraints; therefore Leonardo's 
former Finmeccanica business is safe. (2) As Leonardo's good lobbyist, 
Crosetto does not hesitate to pass off military investments as a 
development factor; when instead he is the opposite, given that it is 
useful things, not weapons, that determine the economic multiplier. 
Especially since they are also useless as weapons, given that, for 
example, the F-35 fighter, in whose production Leonardo Finmeccanica is 
involved, is too expensive even to keep it functioning, so it would be 
of no use in the event of a real war. (3)

The unreliability of the F-35 fighter is proportional to its exorbitant 
costs, and has also highlighted grotesque aspects. Over the past year, 
the Marine Corps has reported three accidents involving the fighter. In 
an accident last September it took days to trace the wreckage of the 
aircraft, so even the remote tracking systems failed. This proves the 
fact that, despite the increasingly victimized official narrative, the 
Sacred West does not really feel threatened by anyone. The alarmist fury 
against the plethora of new Hitlers constantly lurking is only a 
function of the looting of public money by the military kleptocracy. (4)

Economist rhetoric is also invoked by Crosetto to justify the adventure 
of our Navy in the Red Sea, to hunt down the Houthis of Yemen who attack 
ships carrying goods to Israel. With the pretext of preventing an energy 
crisis and rising bills, an expansion of the conflict is justified, 
forgetting that economic logic, and also decency, would first require 
blocking the genocide in Gaza, which could lead to a regional war; and 
then there would really be a global energy crisis. (5)

Not to mention the other economic absurdity, that is, the fact of 
exposing military ships that cost billions to the risk of being damaged 
by drones that cost a few thousand euros each. To defend itself from 
these "low cost" drones, the Italian Navy should use French-produced 
"Aster" missiles, which cost around two million euros each, therefore a 
hundred times more than a Houthi drone. This re-edition of the 
nineteenth-century "gunboat policy" seems to ignore the fact that today 
we are no longer dealing with primitives armed with spears and shields. 
If Crosetto is lucky, maybe they will sink his frigate, so he can 
allocate the money to build another one more beautiful and more superb 
(and also more expensive) than he did before. (6)

On the other hand, economic and corporate rhetoric has become a vehicle 
and an advertising spot, with which the military kleptocracy tries to 
conquer young minds and accustom them to the inevitability of war. 
Thanks to the school-work alternation, militarism has fully entered 
education, given that the Army, the Navy and NATO are basically 
"companies". By doing internships, or working for free for the military 
lobby, young people are "trained", that is, they get used to confusing 
the economy with kleptocracy. (7) Even private universities profess the 
elective affinity between militarism and kleptocracy by organizing 
internships at NATO, which does not worry at all about showing its 
business side, on the contrary, it flaunts it. (8)

December 28, 2023

We thank Mario C. "Passatempo"

1) 
https://www.bancaditalia.it/chi-siamo/storia/Governori-direttori-generali/Governori/guido-carli/index.html

2) 
https://www.ansa.it/europa/notizie/rubriche/altrenews/2023/12/21/meloni-il-nuovo-patto-di-stabilita-e-sistenza-per-litalia-respect-al- 
passed_5e44c01a-7522-4310-b209-a43462fb7714.html

3) 
https://www.leonardo.com/it/news-and-stories-detail/-/detail/further-information-about-the-f-35-program

4) 
https://www.startmag.it/smartcity/f-35-disperso-trovati-i-rottami-del-caccia-americano/

5) 
https://www.ansa.it/ansamed/it/notizie/rubriche/politica/2023/12/19/crosetto-difendere-rotte-mar-rosso-per-prevenire-aiuto-prezzi_ce13d71e-fece-4afb- 
bedc-ab09ec9e3254.html

6) 
https://www.analysisdifesa.it/2023/01/parigi-ufficializza-il-contratto-italo-francese-per-688-missili-aster/

7) https://www.antimafiaduemila.com/home/mafie-news/261-cronaca/94322- 
alarm-dell-observatory-sulla-militarizzazione-scuole-sempre-piu-belliciste.html

8) 
https://www.varesenews.it/2016/11/gli-studenti-liuc-promossi-sul-campo-per-lesercitazione-nato/573379

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