Because I don’t agree with Paolo Mieli on the Italian putinate
The Scratches of Damato
In his double and fortunate profession as a journalist and historian – with the precedence to journalism due to him for having been director of Corriere della Sera not once but twice – my friend Paolo Mieli seemed a bit apprehensive about the bet he made. practically done on the Italian electoral campaign, talking about it with his own newspaper, Dmitry Suslov. Which will perhaps say little to the youngest, even in the role remembered by Mieli as director of the Russian Center for European Studies and as a man near the Kremlin. But that perhaps makes more impression on the less young for the homonymy or the familiarity – I don't even know – with Michail Andreevic Suslov: the famous and feared guardian of the communist ideology at the time, in particular, of Leonid Brezhnev.
He died in time, in 1982, to spare himself the trauma, instead experienced by Putin, of the fall due to the implosion of the Soviet Union, but also to leave an unfortunate memory of several important Italian Communists who had run into, or had only run. the risk of ending up under his observation, in Moscow, suffering career delays, at least.
Fortunately, the prediction that "the new Italian government will adjust its approach to war and relations with Moscow" struck Mieli in our days alone. To war, that is, in Ukraine still far from any solution, military or diplomatic you want to imagine.
While heartened in his own way by the Atlanticist convergence between the secretary of the Democratic Party Enrico Letta and the leader of the right Giorgia Meloni, who are keen to be, and not only to appear, the main or true antagonists of this electoral campaign, even beyond the alignments behind them, Paul fears that Suslov has picked up "some signals that are in the air" in favor of the interests or expectations of the Kremlin.
On the other hand, just as Mieli was writing his editorial, at the Ciellino meeting in Rimini, which fell this year in the middle of the first summer election campaign in Italy, Matteo Salvini reached the stage of the day's debate, to participate in it with his ally Giorgia Meloni and her opponents Enrico Letta and Luigi Di Maio, snorting in words and gestures against the sanctions against Russia for the aggression against Ukraine.
The center-right, as we know, has its "souls" as the currents in the DC were religiously called, as well as the so-called center-left, the same centrist pole fresh from the registry office and even that monolith that Giuseppe Conte would now like to make his 5 Star Movement resemble burning bridges and bridges that survived the first shock wave against the Democratic Party.
Yet that "climate that Moscow likes", so felt by Mieli that it became the title of his editorial, I think it is a bit exaggerated, as hasty all the toasts, metaphorical and actual, raised in the Kremlin to the announcement seemed to me. of the resignation of Mario Draghi as Prime Minister. And repeated even after the much less festive one of Draghi himself who remained in his place, with all the ministers, for the management of the so-called “current affairs”. Among which there are facts and words in a context of "emergencies" that the head of state wanted to underline by dissolving the Chambers but confirming the government.
Among the facts, to name just one, there is the ongoing Italian military aid to Ukraine. Among the words I would include those just pronounced by the President of the Draghi Council in connection with the Conference for Crimea which took place on the thirty-first anniversary of the proclamation of the independence of Ukraine and in the sixth month of the Russian invasion war: a Crimea, by the way, which Turkish President Erdogan also believes is still up to Ukraine. And whose annexation by the Russian side was instead celebrated in 2015 on the spot by Silvio Berlusconi, fortunately no longer prime minister of Italy.
“Italy – Draghi refreshed his memory – has constantly condemned the illegal annexation of Crimea and the gradual militarization of the peninsula by Moscow. We are deeply concerned about the worsening human rights situation on the peninsula and stand by the Crimean Tatar community against the violence and injustice it suffers from. The struggle for Crimea is part of the struggle for the liberation of Ukraine ", which was hit" last February – Draghi said again – with attacks launched "by Crimea itself, which continues to be used" to exert military pressure on other areas, in particular on the port cities of Mykolav and Odessa ”. "The international community – concluded Draghi – cannot turn away".
At the same time – and I don't think so by chance – after having defined the continuing war in Ukraine as “villainous”, the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella revoked another ten Italian honors from Russians. Words and facts together, this time. In short, Italy, despite external and internal difficulties, this time too "will make it", as Draghi said yesterday in Rimini, welcomed with enthusiasm by CLs.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/perche-non-concordo-con-paolo-mieli-sulle-putinate-italiane/ on Sat, 27 Aug 2022 06:55:12 +0000.