What is Berlusconi doing with Putin?
But what is Berlusconi still waiting for to call his friend Putin? The Scratches of Damato
Even at the cost of appearing to you as any Travaglio, even worse because not even he has today reached that much in his Fatto Quotidiano , I will tell you that it was not so much the images of the war in Ukraine that hit me on the front pages of the newspapers, among the usual guns, the usual flames, the usual swollen faces, the usual dilapidated houses, the usual incinerated trees, as well as those that have been spared by everyone, really all the newspapers, in a surprising assault of complicity with the much hated Silvio Berlusconi. To whom no one has reproached the well-known friendship with Putin, immortalized in an infinity of photographs outdoors and indoors, in summer and winter, autumn and spring, even if the mid-seasons are now dead , as we complain every year even more of the tailors who have suffered the most damage.
But, hell of a man, especially now that his family have distracted him, let's say, from the temptation of a third wedding, forcing him to fall back on an engagement party with the deputy with an almost fascinating surname, as the usual Vittorio Feltri allowed himself to joke. , what has kept Berlusconi, at least up to the time of writing, from calling his friend directly to the Kremlin and begging him to save us from the war, given that, for better or for worse, perhaps we are emerging from the pandemic? Yet I thought that the former Prime Minister did not even need the national or international "battery", as we journalists usually call it, to get in touch with such a great friend, having a direct number or mobile phone, perhaps exchanged at the table or playing with the dog in the long corridors of the Roman palace in which he lived and held his offices before moving to the villa on the Appia Antica: the only home of the Knight, I believe, that Putin does not yet know.
Now you will see that Berlusconi will blame the upheavals to which his friend in Moscow is dedicating himself to the Italian voters and to the various conspiracy theorists of the globe who, removing him from Palazzo Chigi in 2011 and not letting him return to you in the following years, did not allow him to keep Putin at bay, to advise him in the best possible way, to prevent instincts and so on. Indeed, to have allowed that in the meantime Putin's contacts with the wrong Italians increased, perhaps even his center-right allies, and not just grillini and others, with the result of complicating things and getting the new or alleged tsar to the point. where it is, also removing the gas for cooking or heating and reducing the savings necessarily invested in falling stock markets to confetti, given that keeping money simply in the bank does not pay off but costs.
Ah, blessed Knight, but what are you waiting for to intervene? What is he waiting for to deny the mischievous Emanuele Lauria who in Repubblica described him as "worried about the use of violence", and eager to "stop the destruction of Ukraine and defend Europe from the possible economic consequences of the crisis", but decided to "not expose himself in the first person", so he "will remain" who knows until "the only political leader not to comment on the flare up of the war"? At least until some missiles accidentally end up in his garden or park in Arcore.
Luckily, finally, that the recent race at the Quirinale ended with the confirmation of Sergio Mattarella . Think about the embarrassment of a head of state like Berlusconi forced to refrain from presiding over the various defense committees and the like finding himself in a conflict of interest, sorry for friendship, with Putin.
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This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/berlusconi-putin/ on Fri, 25 Feb 2022 07:20:52 +0000.