A-Infos (en) Italy, UCADI, #198 - Double standards (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The aggression against Iran is justified by our common-sense hacks by 
invoking Israel's right to preventive self-defense. Although there is no 
proof that Iran is on the verge of possessing the atomic bomb, the mere 
fact that it considers Israel an entity to be destroyed because it 
illegitimately occupies the territory of another people, the Palestinian 
one, would be sufficient reason to legitimately allow Israel to bomb in 
the name of the right to self-defense. Of course, things are more 
complex and the conflict between the two states has historical origins 
and motivations but, stripped down to the bare bones, the reasoning is 
the same that can be done with the opposite sides regarding the war 
between Russia and Ukraine. It is not clear why Russia would not have 
had every reason to invade Ukraine, given that it threatened Russian 
territory directly and closely with its own weapons, and therefore a 
preventive war seems largely justifiable. Of course, even in this case, 
things are more complex and the conflict between two States has deep and 
complex historical, economic, strategic origins, causes and motivations.
It is therefore necessary to clear the field of easy judgments relating 
to the attacked and the aggressor and always and in any case bring the 
analysis of events back to the deep causes that determined them, 
avoiding taking sides on the basis of abstract principles that have no 
foundation, it is much more useful to look at the interests involved, 
the economic reasons, the power relations, the geostrategic balances. It 
would be at least more honest, as well as convenient.
Strengthened by this premise, let's try to look with a different eye at 
what is happening, at least as regards the two largest conflicts that 
are currently underway, the Ukrainian and the Palestinian ones.

The Palestinian conflict

The ultimate opportunity for conflict begins with the terrorist action 
of October 7th which however is the daughter of an endemic war linked to 
the coexistence of two peoples on the same territory. We know well that 
the only possible solution in this regard is the one decided at the 
international level of giving life to the presence of two States for two 
peoples. Outside of this solution there is only the one, currently 
utopian, of giving life to a single inter-confessional State, which 
allows the coexistence of Arabs and Israelites with equal rights and 
dignity. The problem related to the Iranian threat cannot be solved with 
the eternal ban on Iran possessing the atomic weapon, given that in fact 
the possession of the atomic weapon has become the instrument through 
which today a State manages to guarantee itself its autonomy and 
independence. One wonders how long it will be possible to prevent states 
such as Turkey, Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, which also possess 
nuclear power plants, from enriching uranium and building the bomb in 
the future, considering that Israel currently seems to possess more than 
200, but that having not signed any Treaty on nuclear proliferation it 
has never been subjected to any control and categorically refuses to 
submit to it. It follows that either all the states in the area, 
including Israel, sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, submit to 
the same controls and undertake the commitment not to use such devices, 
or it will not be possible to provide a fair and lasting solution to the 
problem.

The Ukrainian conflict

Similarly, the Ukrainian conflict can be resolved by recognizing 
Russia's security concerns and, given that the European Union has 
included respect for minorities among its principles, the solution to 
the Ukrainian problem cannot ignore allowing the populations present on 
its territory to choose their state affiliation, without prejudice to 
the right to respect for the rights of ethnic and linguistic minorities, 
a principle included among the fundamental principles of all peoples. 
Didn't we say that Ukraine wants to join the EU because it shares its 
values?
By doing so, we would recreate that climate of collaboration and 
cooperation, so useful and convenient for the European peoples who have 
an interest in the development of mutual well-being. This different 
order of relations arises from the objective situation on the territory, 
from material interests, from historical reasons, from the needs of the 
peoples and we trust it will eventually prevail.

An inadequate political class

But for all this to happen, a new political class must take the place of 
the current elites who govern the European Union. The peoples of Western 
Europe are today managed by an inadequate, decadent, discredited 
political class, full of incompetent, incapable and stupid, decomposed 
leaders, now devoid of any relationship of interconnection with their 
representatives. The crisis of Western capitalism and old Europe is 
marked by a sterilization of the elite. Its centers of training and 
production of leadership, be they Freemasonry, the City of London, the 
Trilateral Commission, the Bilderberg group is failing, while the world 
is drifting, the big financial companies, and so on and so forth, are 
characterized by having produced an aggregate of inept, incapable, a 
decocted political staff, ranging from Ursula Von der Leyen, to Kaja 
Kallas, to Roberta Mertzola, from Mario Draghi to Enrico
Letta, from Emanuel Macron to Friedrich Merz, to Donald Tusk to end up 
with Mark Rutte totally incapable of carrying out their role. Even this 
absolute mediocrity, so much stupid inability, allows Giorgia Meloni to 
play a role that is not even so marginal in this jumble of imbeciles 
that today represent the European political class. It is unthinkable 
that these people are capable of producing a strategic project, are 
capable of developing a prospective vision of the interests of their 
countries and are not rather a group of foolish servants of an 
rgocentric emperor, owner of a declining empire, such as the President 
of the United States, of which they are inert vassals. Of course, among 
them there are also absolute criminals, heirs of the pirates and 
buccaneers who sailed the seas in past centuries and who have maintained 
those behaviors, nostalgic warmongers of a lost empire, today at the 
government of a country with its asses in rags like Great Britain, but 
still cloaked in imperial perfume.

For everyone, prisoners in a dream world, overwhelmed by the dust of 
time that they inhale, these people are leading the world towards the 
abyss and Europe towards decline, protected by their shelters that they 
believe to be atomic-proof and do not exclude a world war as a decisive 
outlet to satisfy their thirst for power.

And Italy

While the world is drifting, Italy is sailing undaunted under the 
guidance of a helmsman with the wind in her sails.
With the strength of an electoral law he has handed over the country, 
thanks to the majority system, the Italian Prime Minister is shaping the 
country, declining a revised and corrected version of the twenty years 
of fascism, ideally retracing the evolution of the regime in stages. 
From the very beginning of the Government she began to show signs of 
the new imprinting she wanted to give to the country: with the decree on 
raves, absolutely useless, she inaugurated the modern fascistization of 
the Italian penal system, to the point of institutionalizing with the 
article art. 31, fourth paragraph, of law no. 80/2025 on security which 
establishes the subversive role of the secret services that can legally 
create and give life to subversive groups. The same law punishes passive 
resistance, picketing, traffic disruptions, non-violent protests, even 
by prisoners, etc., with arrest and prison.
Proceeding at full speed, the government is working to have the 
monstrous measure regarding the separation of judges' careers approved, 
creating the conditions for political control of the PMs, while it is 
preparing to begin the process for the measure regarding the 
introduction of the premiership. The opposition squawks and shouts in 
vain, while the country lets itself be shaped, enchanted by a fiscal 
policy that, while increasing taxes while claiming to decrease them, 
makes at least a part of the country believe that this is true, promotes 
tax evasion, supports the rich.
All this is happening while an ever-increasing share of Italian citizens 
give up on healthcare because they cannot afford it, while the national 
health service deteriorates more and more, reduces services, allowing 
the private sector to grow, which gains space and consensus out of 
necessity. All this is happening while education is going to pieces, 
failed experiments are being carried out such as the high school made in 
Italy, which has achieved a record low number of enrollments and has 
nevertheless raked in significant investments, interventions are being 
made in the matter of emigration, illegally externalizing detention 
outside the national territory, with exorbitant costs and without any 
real purpose and despite this, the solution adopted is being passed off 
as one that is widely shared also at an international and European level.
The crisis of Western capitalism and old Europe is marked by a 
sterilization of the elite. Its centers of training and production of 
leadership, be they Freemasonry, the City of London, the Trilateral 
Commission, the Bilderberg group is failing, while the world is 
drifting, the big financial companies, and so on and so forth, are 
characterized by having produced an aggregate of inept, incapable, a 
decocted political staff, ranging from Ursula Von der Leyen, to Kaja 
Kallas, to Roberta Mertzola, from Mario Draghi to Enrico
Letta, from Emanuel Macron to Friedrich Merz, to Donald Tusk to end up 
with Mark Rutte totally incapable of carrying out their role. Even this 
absolute mediocrity, so much stupid inability, allows Giorgia Meloni to 
play a role that is not even so marginal in this jumble of imbeciles 
that today represent the European political class. It is unthinkable 
that these people are capable of producing a strategic project, are 
capable of developing a prospective vision of the interests of their 
countries and are not rather a group of foolish servants of an 
rgocentric emperor, owner of a declining empire, such as the President 
of the United States, of which they are inert vassals. Of course, among 
them there are also absolute criminals, heirs of the pirates and 
buccaneers who sailed the seas in past centuries and who have maintained 
those behaviors, nostalgic warmongers of a lost empire, today at the 
government of a country with its asses in rags like Great Britain, but 
still cloaked in imperial perfume.

For everyone, prisoners in a dream world, overwhelmed by the dust of 
time that they inhale, these people are leading the world towards the 
abyss and Europe towards decline, protected by their shelters that they 
believe to be atomic-proof and do not exclude a world war as a decisive 
outlet to satisfy their thirst for power.

And Italy

While the world is drifting, Italy is sailing undaunted under the 
guidance of a helmsman with the wind in her sails.
With the strength of an electoral law he has handed over the country, 
thanks to the majority system, the Italian Prime Minister is shaping the 
country, declining a revised and corrected version of the twenty years 
of fascism, ideally retracing the evolution of the regime in stages. 
From the very beginning of the Government she began to show signs of 
the new imprinting she wanted to give to the country: with the decree on 
raves, absolutely useless, she inaugurated the modern fascistization of 
the Italian penal system, to the point of institutionalizing with the 
article art. 31, fourth paragraph, of law no. 80/2025 on security which 
establishes the subversive role of the secret services that can legally 
create and give life to subversive groups. The same law punishes passive 
resistance, picketing, traffic disruptions, non-violent protests, even 
by prisoners, etc., with arrest and prison.
Proceeding at full speed, the government is working to have the 
monstrous measure regarding the separation of judges' careers approved, 
creating the conditions for political control of the PMs, while it is 
preparing to begin the process for the measure regarding the 
introduction of the premiership. The opposition squawks and shouts in 
vain, while the country lets itself be shaped, enchanted by a fiscal 
policy that, while increasing taxes while claiming to decrease them, 
makes at least a part of the country believe that this is true, promotes 
tax evasion, supports the rich.
All this is happening while an ever-increasing share of Italian citizens 
give up on healthcare because they cannot afford it, while the national 
health service deteriorates more and more, reduces services, allowing 
the private sector to grow, which gains space and consensus out of 
necessity. All this is happening while education is going to pieces, 
failed experiments are being carried out such as the high school made in 
Italy, which has achieved a record low number of enrollments and has 
nevertheless raked in significant investments, interventions are being 
made in the matter of emigration, illegally externalizing detention 
outside the national territory, with exorbitant costs and without any 
real purpose and despite this, the solution adopted is being passed off 
as one that is widely shared also at an international and European level.
While all this is happening, information is occupied, an army of 
self-styled journalists, servile henchmen, replaces or, perhaps it would 
be more accurate to say, integrates, a sold, servile, ideologically 
prejudiced information staff, who are supposed to orient public opinion 
through systematic disinformation, telling the most incredible tall 
tales about what is happening in the world and in the country, giving a 
biased reading of international events, which has the aim of preparing 
for rearmament and war, believing that investment in armaments is the 
main solution for the relaunch of the national and European economy, 
while wages inexorably decrease and the number of structurally poor 
people grows exponentially. And not only does the number of those 
without means grow, but that of families whose members, even though they 
work, receive a salary that is absolutely not sufficient to satisfy the 
most basic needs, allowing those who receive it to not exceed the 
poverty line. The project of building a new Italy tailored to Meloni is 
taking shape with the conscious complicity of the Italian population and 
that of a left incapable of carrying out its role of representation.
It is time to rebel against all this or resign ourselves to perish.

The Editorial Staff

https://www.ucadi.org/2025/06/22/due-pesi-due-misure-2/
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