Dancing on the world: the void under the Fantozzi chronicles from the G20
Welcome to the Ball. The G20, appropriately held in Rome, thrives on blinding lights, flashes that confuse omissions. The level of the celebratory chronicles is ambivalent: on the one hand, the stories, with retro accents, on the pleasures of the rulers, the shopping of 70-year-old debutantes, the sisterhood between Jill and Brigitte, the group photos without a mask, reinserted, obscenely, immediately after. Corriere della Sera , which is always on the spot for these things, took care to show us the Quirinale menu, "salmon marinated in olive powder", refinements for sensitive palates, Tg1 came to define Saturday's "a radiant sunny day ”for the illustrious guests, Fantozzian more than Martian chronicles.
On the other hand, the desolate silence on the unresolved or not even touched upon issues. Not a word about the massive deportation of the Uyghurs, the Muslim population of Xinjang locked up in Chinese concentration camps where, reduced to slaves, they provide for the bulk of Chinese and therefore world manufacturing (only cotton, used all over the world comes 40 per cent from that horrendous and anachronistic captivity). Nothing even about the attack on Taiwan, a residual democracy in the Chinese orbit that develops 80 percent of the microchips without which our computerized society goes haywire. It is the supreme provocation of Beijing, which alarms the US (whose fleets are stationed off the island), and it is something that Xi has promised to solve – and is maintaining – in his own way, an autocratic way with powers that cannot be they remembered from the time of Mao. By controlling Taiwan, China will be able to influence the technological economy of the entire planet. A maneuver that is part of the new Cold War between the United States and the Dragon, which worries the free world, but does not find space in the Roman gastronomic celebrations.
Biden arrived in Rome with the air of a smiling and somewhat dazed boss, but determined to mend the web of Western alliances that Trump had sacrificed; the pat on the shoulder of Draghi, which he received with one of his heartbreaking smiles, also had a worrying meaning, of that benevolent friendship but up to a certain point: "Go ahead", the president told our prime minister, but the message, for those who wanted to decipher it, was clear, go ahead as I wish and do not turn to the Silk Road which the Prodi, the D'Alema, the Conte, the Grillo and ultimately Mattarella like as well.
G20 rightly celebrated in Rome: in the context of this new Cold War, Italy finds itself in an earthenware pot, a land of conquest, a social experiment as the international newspapers write, but an experiment with a flavor of Chinese spices. Everything here reminds us more and more of the iron control of a dictatorship starting from the Green Pass , and when Biden tells Draghi "you are doing a great job" it is not clear if he is confused or alludes to containment work, to the concentrationary democracy that is needed. to buy time. Italy no longer has any sovereignty, it is in fact acquired, its industrial system sold off, much to China, part to the Emirates, some sections to Germany and France. The rough chapter of the “Quirinal Pact” between Rome and Paris opens precisely with France, which risks putting us in the French grip (only La Verità speaks of it).
What democracy is defending Draghi, according to Biden? For his part, the Italian prime minister finds a way to use a sentence, “We are designing a new world”, which cannot fail to sound chilling in itself and all the more so if we consider the possible consequences. Italian democracy is today, in fact, an authoritarian democracy, suspended, which seems to suit both China and the United States, albeit for different purposes and reasons; it derives, in any case, a sort of decision-making paralysis, an endemic indecision, which the bureaucratic expression of the European Union justifiably complicates: at the G20 no one has even complained about the spread precisely in these hours maneuvered in a warning function, with many greetings to the alleged personal prestige of Draghi that would keep us out of trouble. The consequences are manifold, even if very few intercept them.
One lies in the delay in the technological transition entrusted to manager Colao, a slide minister who does not know and cannot decide anything about the war in the war between China and America, that on 5G: every move would be interpreted very badly by at least one of the two superpowers in cause, Colao tries, in the Italian way, to please everyone, but the national custom of ambiguity is no longer allowed by the times, by the circumstances: the effect is paralysis. And without maturation on this point, the coveted 200 and more billions of Recovery remain where they are. 5G is just one aspect among many that condition the evolution of an Italy that has returned to the land of experiments and commercial, economic, cultural and even political acquisitions.
More evident, because they are macroscopic, are the stalemates on climate. Here indeed, beyond the bla bla bla , to put it in Gretese, no step forward is possible: it is the facts that speak, it is the raw need for energy that grows exponentially in the face of impractical or unproductive solutions, the dream book that can shake teenagers in heat but not support a world that is growing in needs and in production debt. For his part, Franco Battaglia always deals with La Verità , and no one denies it. Xi snubbed the Roman summit, a calculated rudeness, and in the meantime he obtained a redefinition of objectives in the name of vagueness: no longer the abatement of the infamous, who knows why, CO2 by 2050 but "by half a century". Meanwhile, China and India continue undaunted to produce carbon energy as if there were no tomorrow. But the Gretino West insists on blaming itself even if it affects less than a third. Is that all the commitment of the rulers who disembark from the jets with 85 spare cars? That's all.
No better in terms of cooperation on migrants, in reality 90% of illegal immigrants: everything remains – it must remain – as it is, with Italy as the first and therefore definitive destination. Not even about this aberration, this obvious, perennial betrayal of intentions has anything significant been heard: how can we fail to conclude for a substantial acquiescence of our country towards the most perverse pro-European desires?
The defense of Italian democracy as Biden sees it has something chilling, it consists in a progressive paralysis of social demands, of individual rights for the benefit of a system of power flooded, rather than enlarged, to almost all political components. The new dreamed world is very reminiscent of the ancient world of statist dirigism for which the refinancing of citizenship income by Draghi, which in fact brought it to 10 billion a year for the next 8 years, demonstrates the surrender of politics: of you will not have work, the creation of new jobs is chimerical, the production and industrial chain no longer depends on us, we can only guarantee you a logic of subsidy, a social struggle that will be won, as usual, by the most unscrupulous. Today Draghi announces that the necessary checks will finally be carried out on citizenship income, as if to say that until now it has been done without. The results, in fact, are devastating. But, given the criminal practice for granted, is our Supermario really sure he can get by with words? Mezzo Sud is living on a subsidy that is not due to it: who goes there to revoke it to mafia, violent, murderers, who feels like eradicating the corruption circuit that involves inspectorates, local authorities, councilors, INPS, surrounding institutions, safety? Could the prefect Mori not be able to close yet another Pandora's box in the South, and does this technocrat who thinks in global terms but completely misses the meaning of small, everyday life, of its problems and needs, of its ill-repute?
In order not to contradict himself, Draghi has just dismissed an expansive maneuver in words, but which renounces any serious reduction in the tax burden to concentrate on making a living, 24 billion out of 30 in deficit, a dust of interventions. The details, then, are hidden by the devil: according to the latest Mise report, public tariffs have increased by 9.5 percent, those regulated by 19 percent, rice and cereals cost 43 percent more, products 10 per cent of dairy products, 6 per cent of meat, 21 per cent of oils, 10 per cent of wine, 41.7 per cent of flights within the EU. The vehicle inspection, another European-style tax, has risen from 69 to 80 euros since 1 November. Stamps, brands, we don't talk about it. And let's not even talk about the bills. Would this be “putting money in the pockets of Italians rather than taking them away”?
The Italian democracy that Biden likes represses peaceful demonstrators, punishes Trieste after the marches but closes its eyes on the artificial demonstrations for the environment or the aborted Zan law, where the demonstrators make death threats to those who opposed it and they lash out against "the right", capitalism, sovereignty, so as not to leave any misunderstandings on the humanitarian agenda. Divisions that, in the same way as the Black Lives Matter in America, are convenient for Beijing because they undermine internal social cohesion, weaken a sense of national belonging, allowing Chinese penetration to advance without primarily cultural resistance.
Draghi gave another phrase with a cryptic meaning, “the only answer is multilateralism”: answer to what? At the 26th Cop, failed like all the others? Multilateralism how? So as not to upset either Chinese Communist capitalism, American mixed capitalism, or the Brussels bureaucracy? It is not clear, but the people are calm, the G20, however it went, was a success. For some, but not for everyone.
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