Of Fulvio Scaglione
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While bon ton Italy has a good time discussing populism and sovereignism, the Empire strikes again. Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state who came from the CIA (where it leaves, as new boss, tale Gina Haspel, at the time neocon very active in torture and now in fact confirmed in office with the decisive votes of the Democrats), announces "the harshest sanctions in history" against Iran, which could only be canceled if the ayatollahs took appropriate measures. Like disappearing off the face of the earth or converting to Buddhism. There is a basis for the disagreement with Iran, as is known, the Iranian nuclear deal signed in 2015 there USA, Ue, Russia in Onu. For almost the entire world the agreement works and, at a minimum, has blocked Iran's path to military nuclear power 15-20 years. For three countries, however, it is a dangerous disaster. Three against all, but in the three, alongside Israel and Saudi Arabia, there is the Empire, then the table jumps. Bad but that's how empires do it.
In the same speech, but, Pompeo, on behalf of the American administration, clearly explained the fate that awaits us: “We understand the financial and economic hardship this imposes on our friends, but you should know that we will hold accountable those who do prohibited business with Iran. I know that the Europeans want to preserve the nuclear agreement but now they know what our position is".
It's beautiful. Why Pompey, when he talks about “forbidden affairs”, means the businesses prohibited by the USA and the sanctions decided by them, not illicit or criminal business at all. 5 billions of actual trade, others 25 between protocols and agreements already signed and to be implemented. To give an idea: 30 billion was the value of the Italian Stability Law of 2018.
In the same speech, but, Pompeo, on behalf of the American administration, clearly explained the fate that awaits us: “We understand the financial and economic hardship this imposes on our friends, but you should know that we will hold accountable those who do prohibited business with Iran. I know that the Europeans want to preserve the nuclear agreement but now they know what our position is".
It's beautiful. Why Pompey, when he talks about “forbidden affairs”, means the businesses prohibited by the USA and the sanctions decided by them, not illicit or criminal business at all. 5 billions of actual trade, others 25 between protocols and agreements already signed and to be implemented. To give an idea: 30 billion was the value of the Italian Stability Law of 2018.
It's the Empire, In short, who decides what we can do and with whom. To Italy, which, together with Germany, is Iran's first European trading partner, the joke of sanctions could be costly 30 billion
The European Union is frantically trying to find a way to nullify the effect of US sanctions on European companies. For example, authorizing direct payments to the Central Bank of Iran for oil supplies. But a large European company that also operates in the US could agree to sacrifice the American market to retain the Iranian one? And there are politicians like French President Emmanuel Macron who have already said they don't want a trade war with the US. So…
The bon ton Italy, Anyway, he doesn't like dealing with these things. She has decided that Trump is an idiot and is happy with that. He doesn't ask himself if, in the presence of the idiot, someone governs the USA anyway, and possibly who he is. Because this Someone makes us swallow shovelfuls of shit in a continuous stream.
Just a few examples. November 2017: Jens Stoltenberg, secretary general of NATO and therefore an official of US politics given that the US pays the 75% of NATO expenses, summons the Union's foreign ministers to Brussels and tells them: dear sirs, your countries will have to modernize bridges, streets, railways, highways and airports to adapt them to war needs and the traffic of tanks and heavy vehicles when there is war. Which it will be of course, we add, against Russia. And none of those present told him to go to hell.
The bon ton Italy, Anyway, he doesn't like dealing with these things. She has decided that Trump is an idiot and is happy with that. He doesn't ask himself if, in the presence of the idiot, someone governs the USA anyway, and possibly who he is. Because this Someone makes us swallow shovelfuls of shit in a continuous stream.
Just a few examples. November 2017: Jens Stoltenberg, secretary general of NATO and therefore an official of US politics given that the US pays the 75% of NATO expenses, summons the Union's foreign ministers to Brussels and tells them: dear sirs, your countries will have to modernize bridges, streets, railways, highways and airports to adapt them to war needs and the traffic of tanks and heavy vehicles when there is war. Which it will be of course, we add, against Russia. And none of those present told him to go to hell.
The bon ton Italy, but, he has other things to think about. There is populism, there is sovereignty, mom the Turks. And after Trump the idiot found Salvini the brute and Di Maio the beggar to have fun with
Early March 2018: Trump (or whoever for it) announces duties on American imports of steel and aluminum from Europe, generated mainly by France and Germany. Panic in Berlin and Paris. Merkel and Macron rush to Washington but in the meantime, to keep the Empire happy, they agree to everything: “Skripal case” and go with new sanctions against Russia; bombings (maybe chemists, maybe not) in Douma and rush to strike Syria. Italy, so disciplined that it opened its airports to the transport of bombs that the Saudis use to massacre civilians in Yemen, he does his part: that of the servant, sending planes to escort American planes attacking Syria.
The other day. After having argued about economic relations (strongly biased in favor of China, in active of 375 billion) and have imposed duties on each other, The USA and China appear to be on the path to a trade agreement. Why fight among the giants when you can make up for it with the medium and small ones? The scapegoat would once again be the European Union, because China could buy more in the US (and therefore less in Europe) and the USA complete the readjustment of the balance by imposing duties on European imports. Not to mention the political advantages (see for example North Korea) that the pact between giants would entail in a crucial area of the world such as Asia and in the South China Sea where a third of the world's maritime commercial traffic transits. The bon ton Italy, but, he has other things to think about. There is populism, there is sovereignty, mom the Turks. And after Trump the idiot found Salvini the brute and Di Maio the beggar to have fun with. In the face of this political and moral suicide, peppered with record-breaking intellectual arrogance, the real question is: How come, from us, sovereignists and populists are not already at the 90% of votes?
The other day. After having argued about economic relations (strongly biased in favor of China, in active of 375 billion) and have imposed duties on each other, The USA and China appear to be on the path to a trade agreement. Why fight among the giants when you can make up for it with the medium and small ones? The scapegoat would once again be the European Union, because China could buy more in the US (and therefore less in Europe) and the USA complete the readjustment of the balance by imposing duties on European imports. Not to mention the political advantages (see for example North Korea) that the pact between giants would entail in a crucial area of the world such as Asia and in the South China Sea where a third of the world's maritime commercial traffic transits. The bon ton Italy, but, he has other things to think about. There is populism, there is sovereignty, mom the Turks. And after Trump the idiot found Salvini the brute and Di Maio the beggar to have fun with. In the face of this political and moral suicide, peppered with record-breaking intellectual arrogance, the real question is: How come, from us, sovereignists and populists are not already at the 90% of votes?
