A-Infos (en) Italy, Umanita Nova #23/25 - Umarell. Mattarella's Statements (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Sergio Mattarella, the Umarell who claims to be the President of the 
Republic, never misses a platform to attend and share his pearls of 
wisdom. On Sunday, September 7th, for example, he attended the 
canonization of Acutis and Frassati, even from the steps of St. Peter's 
Basilica. On Friday the 5th, he appeared at the Cernobbio Forum with a 
statement that, like a true Umarell, seemed to come from the planet 
Papalla. For those who don't know, the Cernobbio Forum is a gathering of 
brains, graduate-level clerks of the bourgeoisie, who dispense advice to 
capitalists and government officials on how to better screw us, enrich 
themselves further, and increase their domination at the expense of 
society and nature.

In short, to make a long story short, Mattarella addressed these good 
people and, with the utmost gall, declared that "The European Union 
(...) has never sparked a conflict, has never initiated a trade dispute. 
On the contrary, it has facilitated agreements and deployed peacekeeping 
missions."

What Mattarella didn't say is that this happened (perhaps...) because 
the European Union isn't a real state; it lacks an army and even the 
Union's financial instruments to create one.

The current European Commission's policy aims to put an end to all this 
by creating common armed forces and even a common public debt to finance 
them; and it does so by humiliating that simulacrum of representative 
democracy that is the European Parliament, with measures taken from the 
Brussels leadership in agreement with NATO and the main European 
governments.

If, instead of fictional states, we focus on real governments, such as 
those within the European Union, we see that wars have not been lacking. 
Without going back a hundred years, when much of the world's landmass 
was colonized by European powers, since the establishment of the 
European Community and then the European Union, various governments have 
committed acts of aggression against other European countries and those 
on other continents. Consider, for example, the war of aggression 
unleashed by the United Kingdom against Argentina over possession of the 
Falkland Islands, an archipelago off the coast of South America and 
almost thirteen thousand kilometers from London; and then the attacks on 
Yugoslavia (1999), the aggression against Afghanistan (2001), Iraq 
(2003), and Libya (2011), not to mention the military support for many 
non-European governments fighting their own peoples to defend the 
privileges of multinational corporations.

Mattarella's declaration speaks of a world that does not exist, of peace 
between governments bearing heavy responsibilities, in solidarity and 
complicity with humanity's worst murderers. The attitude of European 
governments and the Union toward the state of Israel is a case in point. 
The wealth, democracy, and peace of Fortress Europe are built on the 
massacres of populations and the plundering of resources outside the 
Union; the people of so-called Françafrique know this well.

The peace the republic's resident speaks of is dripping with blood.

Those who oppose the militarism of the European Union and its individual 
member governments must also take responsibility for what Europe has 
been and still is in the eyes of the majority of the world's population.

Meanwhile, it would be a good idea for Mattarella to take some time off, 
in a nice retirement home, along with the clique that surrounds him.

Tiziano Antonelli

https://umanitanova.org/umarell-esternazioni-di-mattarella/
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