ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “I have not read well what Trump said. I can only say, regardless of what the President of the United States said, that I know well how our soldiers engaged in Afghanistan.” Thus in an interview with the newspaper La Repubblica the President of the Senate Ignazio LaRussia, Minister of Defense from 2008 to 2011. For Russian “it is a huge lie that someone can only imagine that the Italians stayed away from the front”.
“The Parliament and the government had decided to increase the contingent – explains the second office of the state –. And in any case, more than 30 coffins of soldiers passed on my back, which I went one by one to pick up at airports when they came back. It was not an indifferent burden, the most painful thing of all the time I made the defense minister.”.
When asked about the hypothesis that Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is moving away from the President of the United States, Russian responds as follows: “No, Trump is the elected president and we are convinced of the indissolubility of the alliance. I believe that Giorgia is doing a balance operation that only the great statesmen manage to do, that of not taking a step back when you have to put steady points like on Afghanistan and at the same time be always a bridge between Europe and the United States of Trump, or anyone else.”.
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