ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “I hope everyone realizes what we are living. It is a situation that has no precedent in the history of recent decades. There is a sum of criticality accumulating and self-powering, increasingly difficult to solve. And this places those who want to reason in the face of the great weakness of multilateralism, who did not know how to take lessons from what had happened in the last century and did not consolidate the antibodies for what we are living now”. This is the thought of the Minister of Defense, Guido Crosetto, in an interview with Corriere della Sera. “I fear that what is already dramatic can fall even more. Because I know that humanity has shown us that there is no limit to madness. You think that they are human beings like us who have decided that to end a conflict, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were acceptable. Unfortunately, we continue to have nuclear weapons and those who do not have them. We didn’t learn anything. Royal nuclear threat? I don’t even want to say the word. The risk is madness and what we are living is a conflict where action corresponds to reaction of a higher level.”.
Iran has so far rejected all US proposals. “Trump is the leader of a sovereign nation and nobody from the outside can influence it.” “One of the problems of this presidency is that no one dares to contradict the Chief. Iran of the Ayatollahs, leader of the anti-Western integrity, who kept under check every freedom was a problem of all. With this war decided in two without confrontation and international legitimacy they gave him a gift. On times and ways it would have been useful less approximation – continues Crosetto – Europe does what it can but does not seem successfully. Meanwhile everyone should do their part. I believe that Italy has taken an important and serious position when he said he did not share this war trying to limit the damage to the maximum.”
“Italy is not ally of Trump or Biden, we are allies of the United States. Only those who are stupid can think they can break this alliance. We think of today, we think of Iran that decides to react by launching a rocket against us. If there were no NATO defense, every country would risk much more and would be much more defenseless.” On Trump’s words about the NATO release: “I don’t believe and can’t. He would need the Congressional vote and I doubt it would be favorable. He could instead decide to withdraw soldiers from Europe. And that would make us weaker, less defended. At this moment we cannot react together by replacing them.”.
On the suspicion of granting use on some occasions of the Sigonella base: Will I deny it in Parliament? I will certainly deny it because it is false but I do not think there is suspicion because it is not a subject managed by politics but military. We have the obligation to leave the bases open because this involves the Treaties and because all governments have behaved in the same way, but we have rules. These are agreements that we have not signed, if our predecessors did not like to cancel or at least question them. I don’t see what happened.” Finally on the political theme of reshuffle or early elections Crosetto answers: “Tenuta. We are obliged to stand because everything can afford us right now, except a crisis. I’d say whoever was in the government. For us it would be easier and certainly much more convenient to go to early elections. Instead we have the duty to manage the crisis derived from the conflict and therefore to remain”.
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