Of Massimo Fini

Source: Massimo Fini
The debut of the new Italian government in an international forum, the G7 in La Malbaie, Canada, it couldn't be more difficult. Our prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, he was in fact the first and so far the only European leader to have the courage, in his investiture speech to the Senate, to make some reservations on the sanctions that the United States, followed by Europe, they imposed on Russia for occupying Crimea.
There was an immediate refusal from NATO (which as everyone knows is an alliance for the sole use and consumption of the United States) through the declarations of its current and puppet Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and the US ambassador to the headquarters of the Atlantic Alliance in Brussels, Bailey Hutchison. One of the objections to keep the point about these sanctions is that the laws of international law cannot be violated without being followed by adequate punishment. Ora, if there is a country that in the last twenty years has violated these rules and acted with the utmost contempt towards the UN, which represents all the states of the world and should be their defender, it's really America. When, for example, Serbia is attacked over the Kosovo issue (1999) against the will of the UN is then difficult, having created this precedent, attack Russia for annexing Crimea. Also because there is a substantial difference. Kosovo was outside the American area of ​​influence and very far from its borders, so much so that President Clinton to convince his fellow citizens of the goodness of that aggression, naturally justified in the name of the usual "human rights" ready for any use, he had to take a huge map and a wand, like a master, show them where this mysterious Kosovo was that no one in the States had ever heard of. Russia instead occupied a territory, in the Crimea, which if he really isn't Russian, However, he had always been a Russian speaker.
We can then remember the aggression and occupation of Iraq (2003) against the will of the UN e, always against the will of the UN, that to Libya Muammar Gaddafi the consequences of which still bleed, and they will bleed for who knows how much longer, on Europe and in particular on Italy.
For Europe and Italy, a good relationship with Putin's Russia (who is an autocrat if not a dictator, like many other leaders of our allied countries and perhaps members of NATO, like Türkiye) it is essential. For reasons of geographical proximity, energy, commercial and also, if you want, cultural. And he said it well, even if he didn't say everything, Matteo Salvini when he pointed out that he sees no threat from Russia towards us and Europe while he clearly sees the migratory upheaval in the Mediterranean caused by American aggression, French and unfortunately also supported by us Italians (Berlusconi government). Salvini also added – and it is the point on which we allow ourselves to disagree – that this is what NATO should be dealing with: God forbid, the further away from our borders the better. Naturally Salvini was immediately accused, especially from that nice guy George Soros, of being on Putin's 'paycheck'. And the entire American press is against the Five Star League government. He wrote Robert Cohen on the authoritative New York Times: “Lega and the Movement 5 Stars combine bigotry and incompetence to an unusual degree. They are a miserable bunch carried high on the global anti-liberal tide. In short, I don't see anything they advertise that doesn't disgust me.". This disgust stems from the fact that it is well understood that the new Italian government will try, within the limits of his strength, to free himself from the hairy Yankee tutelage. Which is the same position as Angela Merkel, even if with Germany the United States is forced to tread more slowly and use less contemptuous words.
American arrogance towards Europe can be seen even better in the Iranian question. The US government gave 180 days of time, starting from May 8th, to European companies that have ongoing business with Iran. We are at the classic 'eight days' that are given to the maid when she is fired. The duplicitous French immediately complied: the Total and the Peugeot Citroen “They are getting ready – as he writes Stefano Montefiori on the Corriere del 7.6 – to abandon the joint ventures they had created with Iranian companies”. But Italy also has substantial and legitimate interests in Iran, Eni in the lead but not only. We Europeans have no open dispute with Iran and no danger that can come from the country of the ayatollahs. And to clear the field of any misunderstanding 14 July 2015 the so-called group of 5+1 (China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States, all permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany) signed an agreement in Vienna on Iranian nuclear power in which the Tehran government committed not to enrich uranium beyond 20%, therefore maintaining nuclear power for civilian uses, and to accept Hague inspections, which he had always done at least since 2003, in exchange for the easing of the economic sanctions that the Americans had imposed on that country. The United States pulled out of that agreement because they have always had a poisonous tooth against the ayatollahs' regime, for ideological reasons and in pro-Israel function their 'longa arm' in the Middle East. Naturally, and we would say logically, the Tehran government has threatened to start an atomic program, which he had always given up, if also the other protagonists of that agreement, following the USA, they will not believe in you.
Then there is the question of the duties on aluminum and steel that the United States has also imposed on Europe. But in this case Europe is able to defend itself because as he writes The World (but there was no need for the acumen of The World, I wrote it too, The Fact of 6 June) “The European Union is the largest trading area in the world”.
Then there is the fact, as he recalled the other day Ferruccio Sansa, that the American soldiers present in Italy, be it Vicenza or Naples, can commit crimes, including rape, having the almost total certainty of remaining unpunished (they can be remembered, among others, even more serious facts such as Cermis or the kidnapping by US secret agents of Abu Omar on Italian soil).
Finally, the United States does not accept that its soldiers be tried by international tribunals for war crimes. In short, Americans are "legibus solutes". They attack, they occupy, they kill, they blackmail financially, they punish, in short, they do whatever they want and like. We are pleased that, for once among Westerners, was an Italian, the new prime minister Giuseppe Conte, to advance even a timid reservation about this intolerable arrogance.