Salvini is Putin?
Because ambiguities in foreign policy can undermine the path of the Meloni government. Damato's Graffi on Salvini's words
A SALVINI CASE IN THE GOVERNMENT?
The younger ones, lucky them, did not witness the useless campaigns conducted by the PCI of the time against commercial breaks for films and other television programmes. Walter Veltroni coined the formula of "don't interrupt an emotion" which in a meeting at Fininvest, in which I attended, Silvio Berlusconi found fairly effective, so he encouraged the managers of his group to find another competitive one. Only the idea came up of flooding the government with protest postcards so as not to kill commercial television with the ban on commercials. But the relationships between the parties were more valuable than the postcards in resolving the issue as the Knight expected.
SALVINI'S PUTINATA
Well, the bipartisan torchlight procession the other evening in the Capitol by Carlo Calenda to express solidarity with Navanly, who died in Siberian prisons, and with his widow who, safe in the West, took up the baton in opposition to Putin was a beautiful emotion. Unfortunately interrupted by the vice president of the Council and Northern League leader Matteo Salvini. Who, effectively avenging his group leader in the Senate Massimiliano Romeo, contested in the Capitoline square, has re-proposed guaranteeist positions towards Putin. Who immediately responded from Moscow in his own way, boasting of the good relations he has had with Italy, where he has always felt at home, like Salvini in Moscow, with or without the image of Putin himself.
THE ROLE OF TAJANI IS NOT SALVINIAN
I'm not talking about the sympathies between Putin and Berlusconi and the courtesies and visits they exchanged, even in controversial moments such as that of the annexation of Crimea by Russia, because the Knight is no longer there. And his successor Antonio Tajani seems more cautious, at least. Having already summoned the Russian ambassador to the Farnesina for a warning, she will certainly not boycott the prime minister's decision to relaunch at G7 level a Western campaign of military and political support for Ukraine which has been under Russian invasion for two years.
THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SALVINI AND MELONS
It is curious, however, that while Meloni takes the opportunity of the Navanly drama to relaunch Ukraine's war of resistance to Russia, which is conducting its "special action" of alleged denazification of the neighboring country, in Italy episodes like in Russia happen . That is, it happens that the police begin to identify those demonstrating for Navanly and against Putin. Who therefore continues to have his good reasons, even now that Berlusconi is no longer here, but in exchange there is Salvini even more than Tajani, to rely on our country.
AMBIGUITIES IN FOREIGN POLICY UNDERMINE THE PATH OF THE MELONI GOVERNMENT
This is commonly called ambiguity. And it constitutes a greater danger for Prime Minister Meloni and her government than the Sardinian elections next Sunday, the other regional ones in the following months and finally the European vote in June. Unfortunately, for the government in office, the terrain on which it had moved most quickly and successfully until the day before yesterday is becoming blurred: that of foreign policy.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/salvini-putineggia/ on Wed, 21 Feb 2024 06:42:09 +0000.