Salvini and Conte united on the Trump-Putin axis against Europe and against Atlanticism

Sometimes they come back. Do you remember the Conte government 1, the one based on the populist League-Five Star axis, Salvini-Conte? The Director of "Il Fatto Daily", Marco Travaglio, contemptuous of the danger, claims that "that Government has done the most left-wing things" but here perhaps we should understand geography. No, it is completely unlikely that, prevailing Giorgia Meloni, Salvini and Conte return to the Government together. However, there is a but. And that's what yesterday Stefano Folli, the best Italian political commentator, lucidly highlighted in "la Repubblica" wondering what could ever happen in Italy if, heaven forbid, Donald Trump re-win the November presidential election and return triumphantly to the White House. Even in Europe – writes Folli – “Trump's supporters are eager to see him again at the White House” and Salvini has long been working “to ideally reunite all continental right-wing extremists under a single flag: the one that aims to weaken the Atlantic alliance”. But – here's the point – a Europe with a more fragile NATO means a Europe "closer to being influenced by Putin and perhaps worse". Not far from this line, despite yesterday's official denials, is the leader of the Five Star Movement, Giuseppe Conte ("Giuseppi" for his friend Trump). Like Salvini, Conte is dissatisfied with the Atlantic alliance supported by the Meloni government and, like Salvini, the leader of the Five Stars hopes, according to the editorialist of "la Repubblica", in the Trump-Trump agreementPutin and everything that comes from it. Nightmarish scenarios but it is good that we know what is happening on the horizon and it would be even better if, before and beyond the European elections, Italians woke up from their long populist sleep and drew the necessary consequences.