A-Infos (en) Italy, FAS Sicilia Libertaria: Opening, E.U. Extremely dangerous war mongering -- Europe with a helmet (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Is World War III approaching? Ukraine, Palestine, the Red Sea are the 
hot fronts of a picture whose protagonists are the same, the challenges 
and the stakes are the same. Without forgetting Sub-Saharan Africa, 
Libya, areas of the Middle East, such as Rojava where the Turkish army 
takes advantage of international "distractions" to carry out its project 
of extermination of the Kurdish people. ---- But the most disturbing, 
perverse and evident signal comes from Europe, where there are growing 
itchings towards direct involvement in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, 
justified by a hypothetical US disengagement in the Mediterranean, the 
void of which should be covered by a rapid rearmament of the States of 
the Union. A strategy that now seems more than defined (apart from the 
German hesitation), and which cannot tolerate obstacles, not even the 
Pope's words on the negotiation. And in this the EU, Great Britain and 
the USA are consistent: since before the conflict, and during these two 
years, they have always nipped in the bud any attempt to negotiate, even 
when Zelensky himself seemed convinced of it, imposing the murderous war 
policy at all costs, training Kiev's puppet for this purpose, preferring 
to sacrifice thousands and thousands of men in uniform and the civilian 
population to the madness of war and the certainty that Putin would give 
in, or that Russia would implode as it would not be able to hold on for 
long conflict and international sanctions.

Things did not go like this, and in a few months the war risks turning 
into a defeat for Kiev, short of ammunition and consensus, fresh from 
the failure of the counter-offensive trumpeted in recent months. But in 
Brussels they don't want to admit this, they raise the bar and aim for 
the generalized rearmament of the Union, at the prospect of a war 
economy, which will mean (as it already does) further cuts to welfare to 
increase military production in order to prepare for real war. Such 
brazen interventionism has not been seen for some time: an extra billion 
and a half for the common defense of the EU, use of Eurobonds and extra 
profits deriving from seized Russian assets, readjusting the function of 
the European Investment Bank from infrastructure to security and to the 
defense.

The resolution of the European Parliament incites to fight "until 
victory", even at the cost of sending ground troops, as Macron has 
already announced and as Meloni herself committed to doing in her recent 
trip to Kiev by signing an agreement to this effect; the EU Council of 
20 March explicitly talks about preparation and future readiness 
strategy and its president Michel calmly fires: "if we want peace, let's 
prepare for war".

Therefore in 2024 the EU will allocate another 5 billion in aid to 
Ukraine through the fund called "European Peace Facility"! France is 
training the 126th regiment to intervene in the conflict; in Germany, 
France and Italy, hybrid models of military conscription are being 
studied, because the one in Donbass is trench warfare, not just 
technological, and cannon fodder is needed to be sent into the mud to 
dig and die. Poland, Britain and France already have trainers and field 
assistants, NATO personnel who direct the use of sophisticated weapons 
whose secrets cannot be put into the hands of the unreliable Ukrainian 
military.

Add to this that Poland allocates 27 million to build or restore bunkers 
on the border; that the German soldiers go to prepare the youth for a 
possible conflict by going to schools; whereas Denmark will 
institutionalize female military conscription starting in 2026; whereas 
Sweden has already reintroduced a form of semi-compulsory military 
conscription; and above all the commitments to send the first F-16 
fighter-bombers and long-range missiles to Ukraine by the summer, "to 
avoid defeat". And NATO is strengthening its air base in Constanta, on 
the Black Sea: 3000 hectares, a 10 km perimeter, 10,000 soldiers 
deployed on the border with Russia while Stoltenberg speaks of Ukraine's 
inevitable entry into NATO.

It's Italy? Like the other countries of the Union, it has emptied its 
deposits and urgently needs an armament policy and the money to 
implement it. Let us remember that in these two years of war it has 
spent for Ukraine, between humanitarian and military aid, the enormous 
figure of 5.4 billion euros, which coincidentally corresponds to the 
amount cut from the Citizenship Income, demonstrating how the 
connections between war and social policies are very close. He will give 
Ukraine another billion by 2027. In 2023 alone he sold them weapons 
worth 417 million, including chemical, toxic and radioactive agents. In 
the lead Leonardo, Rheinmetall, RWM, Iveco, Avio followed by many others.

The West spent a whopping 108 billion on this war, of which 42 was the 
USA and 52 the EU; only that the USA is making up for itself by 
replacing Russia as a supplier of liquefied gas and in other commercial 
areas. By emphasizing the Russian danger, they reach into citizens' 
meager wallets, moving huge sums from welfare policies to military ones, 
hiding the reality of the many dodgers and deserters who, in Ukraine as 
in Russia, try to escape the carnage decided by criminals who govern 
them. They are silent about the 300,000 men fleeing from Ukraine, a 
story that would highlight the madness of this (as of all wars), and 
about mass desertion, today the only way to weaken and empty conflicts 
of meaning.

Given the much talk of peace regarding the tragic situation in Gaza and 
the ongoing genocide, in the month of December alone the Italian 
government sold weapons worth 1.3 billion to Israel, tripling the dirty 
deals compared to a year earlier; in the first three months of the 
conflict the Italian war industry gave Israel 2.1 billion in weapons and 
ammunition (from Fiocchi to Beretta, to Alenia Aermacchi, owned by 
Leonardo, which sold 30 M-346 military trainer aircraft with which 
Israel trains the pilots who bomb Gaza). A government with hands stained 
with the blood of massacred Palestinian civilians, engaged in a foreign 
policy with the complicity of the opposition. Moreover, the business of 
the Italian military sector, well represented in the government, is 
going swimmingly: exports between 2019 and 2023 increased by 86%; 71% of 
Italian weapons end up in states (dictatorships) of the Middle East, 
used against those who dare to challenge the prevailing oil and military 
order. In first place in this export of death we find Egypt, which 
continues to mock Italy over the Regeni case.

To govern this situation, the internal front must also be silenced: 
security decrees, prison for migrants, beatings for students, arrests 
for the radical opposition, hard lines in trials, precepts for those who 
strike, soldiers in schools.

We must succeed in having the ability to respond blow for blow, to 
support Russian and Ukrainian defectors and promote this choice as the 
most coherent ever to oppose the war; we need to strengthen the fights 
against military bases, war industries, projects to strengthen the war 
structures of both Italy and NATO and the USA. And above all we must 
circulate the slogan of the general strike against the war, as a form of 
immediate and international struggle to be adopted when the sirens of 
the murderers in uniform begin to sound. Because the war must be 
opposed, it must be sabotaged, it must be boycotted.

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