That expensive puppet calls the UN
Considerations on the sidelines of the last UN general assembly. Damato's Scratches
What is "obtuse and blind" is not only the feared rigor, denounced and so on by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, flanked in Sicily by his German counterpart, mentioning the European Stability Pact which risks being reinstated after the due suspension to Covid. What is also obtuse and blind, or rather even more so, at a global level is the behavior of the UN confirmed in the general assembly at which the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, victim with his people of Russian aggression, and the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. Who launched an appeal for "a global and unsparing war on human traffickers", who have now become, with their revolting activity in the waters of the Mediterranean , evocative of slavery and above all at the expense of Italy, "the richest mafia in the world" .
THE UN, AN EXPENSIVE SCRAP?
“Italy remains alone”, was the headline of Repubblica , not to regret it – I fear – but to be pleased with it, since it is the paper battleship of the anti-government fleet. Not a word, an adjective, an adverb against this expensive scrap which has now become, 78 years after its optimistic foundation in the United States, an organization to which Italy contributes every year by paying a whopping 357 million or so dollars. Or even 700, according to the calculations of the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Infrastructure, leader of the League and I don't know what else Matteo Salvini, perhaps including the expenses incurred directly by the Italian government to finance the participation of our soldiers in international peacekeeping missions and surveillance.
The UN is a piece of wreckage which, despite its weight, flies into the sky, dragging with it, in Emilio Giannelli's cartoon on the front page of the Corriere della Sera , Prime Minister Meloni. And not just Zelensky. Which, if he had not been defended by the Americans and NATO allies, including Italy, would have been hanged by the Russians on a gallows in his Kiev within three days, according to Putin's plans, from the start of the invasion. Or from its recovery, if we want to count the previous annexation of Crimea which was unfortunately also celebrated by the late Silvio Berlusconi, who rushed to the scene to honor his friend.
RUSSIA DISRUPS THE SECURITY COUNCIL
Davide Giacalone wrote today in his Reason that "Putin's Russia has become the enemy of this splendid monument to imperfection because, by starting an imperialistic war and sitting in the UN Security Council", where it has the right of veto, "it undermines the foundations of balance”. And where do we put, dear Davide, the systematic help of the countries that, instead of withdrawing quickly, participate in a show of substantial cowardice or hypocrisy?
It's really sad to have to think and write these things about the UN at a time when its general secretary is a friend of Italy like the Portuguese Antonio Guterres, who fled to Rome during the dictatorship in his country and was hired by the Socialist Party.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/onu-fantoccio-assemblea-generale/ on Thu, 21 Sep 2023 05:47:31 +0000.