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Between Capalbio, the Farnesina and Parliament, the Ukrainian crisis has shown the worst of Italy

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Crises are the moments in which the best and worst of the ruling classes are shown. These are the moments in which the Churchill or the De Gaulle emerge, or reveal the Valentinano III , General Mack or General Chzarnowsky . If you have any historical curiosities you can consult the respective links.

Today the Ukrainian crisis showed the best of our information. Telegram channels, Skynews (the English one….), Foxnews sent live images from the most affected Ukrainian cities. We have Rai, with TG2 where, not having sufficiently dramatic war scenes (the real explosions seem so fake, until you are in the middle), those of War Thunder are used.

But even big names have managed to give a blow to the credibility of the Italian media. In a non-wave, while Letta speaks, in the background Lucia Annunziata describes the Ukrainians in Italy as "Waiter, caregivers" "Lovers" says another voice. Everything feels great because Letta is speaking, so she is not saying anything.

However, why make a bad impression only at the level of information. The quality of the government must actually be shown with a speech to report to the Chambers that contained frankly embarrassing points.

For example, when he states that the events show the imprudence of not having diversified our energy sources and our suppliers more in recent decades.

Quite right, but it is said by someone who has been sitting in the rooms of power, and the largest, for thirty years. When you discussed with Ms. Merkel, couldn't you have even talked a little bit about these energy issues?

However, that's not all: Draghi mentions that he had a telephone appointment at 9.30 today, but Ukrainian President Zelensky did not respect it. This is the part reported by the media. The reality is significantly worse: “today, this morning, he looked for me, we set up a telephone appointment for 9.30 but it was not possible to make the call because President Zelensky was no longer available”. That is: the Ukrainian premier phoned Draghi who did NOT answer, but set a telephone note for him at another time. Zelensky did not answer in turn, it is not known why if with the bombs that were falling he did not hear the ringer or if he was busy counting corpses. It happens.

Zelensky however did not take it exactly well, reminding him that he has problems that are a little more serious, for example that his people and his army are bombed and under attack.

Zelensky, however, will likely not be dismissed, but he will receive a nice bath of realism with the quality of the rulers he is dealing with.

A government "of the best" deserves only the "best" parliament of the republic, or at least the one with the easiest applause, like the current one. Draghi points out that it will probably be necessary to reopen the coal-fired power plants, taking the applause of the parliament that voted a month ago to put the protection of the environment in the Constitution.

What was the figure of the "Italian ruling class": that of a group of privileged people, who have just left their villa in Capalbio and are completely inadequate for their role. With hindsight it would have been better they had taken, collectively, a week's vacation, also because, to say nothing with speeches, one could also keep quiet and avoid this bad figure. The same as a Valentinian III or a General Mack.

We conclude with a flourish by recalling the excellent performance of our foreign minister in diplomatic relations with Russia, after having boasted of being in close contact with them to mediate.

The Russian Foreign Ministry addresses words of poison to the head of the Farnesina Luigi di Maio. The ministry in fact underlined that it considered the statement by the Italian Foreign Minister "strange", according to which there can be no contact with the Russian leadership until there are signs of a decrease in tension around Ukraine. "A strange idea of ​​diplomacy ", they attacked. And they didn't stop there. In fact, from Moscow they were keen to remind their Italian counterpart that diplomacy "was invented only to resolve conflict situations and relieve tension" and "not for empty trips around countries to taste exotic dishes at gala receptions ". In fact, eating caviar canapés seems not to have been particularly effective in calming the spirits of Russia. It will get better next time.

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The article Between Capalbio, Farnesina and Parliament the Ukrainian crisis showed the worst of Italy comes from ScenariEconomici.it .

This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/fra-capalbio-farnesina-e-parlamento-la-crisi-ucraina-ha-mostrato-il-peggio-dellitalia/ on Fri, 25 Feb 2022 16:24:51 +0000.