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Bisignani supports Turicchi in Cdp, Dagospia pro Tg1, Carrai's renzate, Savona roughs up the Sec, Crosetto angry with Vannacci, Sechi advises Meloni

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BISIGNANI PREFERS TURICCHI TO SCANNAPIECO IN CDP

DAGOSPIA IS CENSORED ON CHIOCCI'S TG1

THE ROMAN OPENINGS OF TG1

CARRAI'S RENZATES FLATTERED BY THE FACT OF LABOR

NEW TURBULENCE FOR BOEING

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POSTCARD FROM YEMEN

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SECHI'S ADVICE TO MELONI

CROSETTO INVIPERITO WITH VANNACCI

SAVONA TRUPS THE SEC ON BITCOINS

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EXTRACT FROM RAMPINI'S EDITORIAL IN CORRIERE DELLA SERA:

America remains indispensable to global economic security. But its military force, although imposing, is not enough to put out the fires that others continue to start. The slide towards what Pope Francis calls the Third World War risks being avoided, paradoxically, by a US retreat under the presidency of the isolationist Donald Trump. The latest American military interventions (with British support) against the Houthis of Yemen are both an escalation and an unfinished mission. Rather than providing answers, they open up new questions. The Houthis , who cannot act without the support of Iran, have multiplied attacks against merchant ships in the Red Sea, and they do not only target Israeli cargo. The Anglo-American intervention against them is a defensive, police operation to protect freedom of navigation. What is at stake is not a vital interest of the United States, which years ago stopped depending on Arab oil and achieved energy self-sufficiency. In this case the American gendarme defends a collective good – the safety of maritime transport – to which Europe and China are most closely linked in that area.

There is therefore both a European and Chinese vulnerability: economic powers without adequate military projection in the Middle East. The fragility of Saudi Arabia is also exposed: despite spending billions on armaments, the Riyadh monarchy has been unable to tame the Houthis who have attacked it several times.

Iran is the big troublemaker in this area. His clerical regime holds the ranks of what he calls "the axis of resistance against the Great American Satan and Israeli Zionism", in fact an axis of terror that unites Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis and other militias in addition to the Assad regime in Syria. So far the Iranian game is working: it starts many proxy wars and maintains a "deniability", it never comes into play directly, it denies its role as instigator. It is a dangerous but very profitable game. Tehran has already won a prize in the lottery, blowing up the thaw between Saudi Arabia and Israel, a partnership in the name of economic prosperity that would have exposed the criminal incompetence of the ayatollahs in terms of social progress.

Only America or Israel could decide to break the fiction and widen the conflict to Iran itself to strike at the control room of the chaos. Neither Biden nor Netanyahu seems to want to cross this threshold. The strategic assessments of America and Israel will have to take into account that the Iranian nuclear program is close to the fateful bomb threshold.

Shiite theocracy by its nature is an object that Westerners struggle to decipher. It is inspired by the messianic certainty that God will punish the infidels, starting with his sworn enemies, the United States and Israel. He is confident that American decadence will allow the final destruction of the Jewish state. At the same time, the ayatollahs are capable of maximum tactical flexibility in pursuing their objectives while taking controlled risks; they have also demonstrated this in the alliance of interests with two anti-Muslim regimes such as the Russian and Chinese ones.

Rebuilding a balance similar to the one that preceded October 7, 2023, requires a success of the American strategy. Antony Blinken has revived that "shuttle diplomacy" made famous by the late Henry Kissinger, with his incessant shuttling between Middle Eastern capitals. To the moderate Sunni axis – Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Emirates – the Biden Administration offers a solution to the Palestinian question based on two states, which however the massacre of Hamas has made less acceptable not only for Benjamin Netanyahu but for a good part of the Israeli public opinion. The action of the Israeli armed forces in Gaza continues to outrage the Arab streets, reducing the room for maneuver of leaders such as Mohammed bin Salman and al-Sisi. Decades of propaganda by Arab leaders, who have manipulated the Palestinian issue for the purposes of internal stability, now presents the sorcerer's apprentices with the bill. For some time now, Egypt, Arabia and the Emirates had abandoned the Palestinian leadership (both moderate and extremist) for which they have the utmost contempt. But the heartbreaking scenes of mothers and children dying under Israeli bombs force them to return to the old fiction of solidarity.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/bisignani-tifa-turicchi-in-cdp-dagospia-pro-tg1-le-renzate-di-carrai-savona-strapazza-la-sec-crosetto-inviperito-con-vannacci-sechi-consiglia-meloni/ on Sun, 14 Jan 2024 10:43:38 +0000.