The question is simple: the Saturday demonstration next “pro Europe”, born from the initiative of Michele Greenhouse, an esteemed journalist from Repubblica, along the way it turned into a demonstration against Europe's rearmament plan proposed by Ursula von der Leyen. In fact, it is a demonstration against the Europe that exists and in favor of the mess that Trump and Putin are trying to concoct. Saying, as the secretary of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein, did, that we want a real European army and that it should not be up to the individual states to provide for a strengthening of their defense system, is a bit like throwing the ball into the stands. We forget an old adage according to which "the better is the enemy of the good". We neglect theurgency, and I underline urgency, to equip the European countries of a apparatus military able to at least protect them from ill-intentioned people, given that the USA, to whom we had almost entirely outsourced our security, is clearly saying that it wants to withdraw from the Old Continent, that it will no longer be the world's policemen (who have been much criticized, by the way) and that Europeans, with a little good will, can defend themselves alone.
Europe Without Defense: Why We Cannot Ignore the Urgency
From a strictly military point of view, the European Commission's plan aims to remedy over thirty years of neglect of defense apparatus. For example, we do not have sufficient structures intelligence, nor observation skills satellite or communicationWe have no defense anti-aircraft against missiles of any kind and, in Italy, for example, we don't even have the drones, neither those of a few thousand euros nor the more sophisticated ones. Far from waging war on someone, as Conte and his court of boors are prattling on, or Salvini who, in the desperation of having fallen into irrelevance, rides all the populist mantras. But peace is not the kind that comes from shouting loudly in the streets or talking nonsense insulting heads of friendly states or the Brussels Commission, nor even with the flags carried by Landini. Peace must be obtained with logical political processes e farsighted. And it is certain that if we present ourselves to the world unarmed, we do not gain the respect of others, but, on the contrary, we arouse their appetites.
From a political point of view, it says nothing that Europe has not even been taken into consideration by the leaders of the superpowers who are preparing to negotiate on the skin of theUkraine? And we shouldn't be alarmed by the outbursts of Trump and his men, who often don't know what they want, but on one thing they are very clear: Europe is getting on their nerves and they want to eliminate the EU (in unity of purpose with Putin).
More Europe, but without stumbles
Poor Serra had a good idea. We have need more europe, not only for defense, but also for the relaunch of our economies and to regain a voice in the world at the tables that count. But the road to do is still long, and we cannot take leaps into the void. For the moment, we could strengthen our defenses, making the most of the industrial coordination capacities envisaged in the von der Leyen plan, with 150 billion European euros, and perhaps making some substantial progress on the creation of a common capital market and, if possible, some banks. The European political union is not mature. The various countries do not trust each other. And of course, theItaly continues to show no reliability. Meloni's right does not vote on the European Parliament resolution on Ukraine. The Democratic Party splits over vote on rearmament plan between the 10 deputies who voted in favour and the 11 who abstained. And then the Meloni does not want to attend the London summit and she withdraws, offended at not having a leading role.
In short, when it comes to making important decisions, Italy goes to pieces. And next Saturday's demonstration does nothing but add confusion to confusion.
