#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #ITALY #Sicilia #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) Sicilia Libertaria: Cobelligerants (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The warmongering Russian foreign minister Lavrov is right in declaring that Italy

is first on the list among those who are opposing the Russian invasion of
Ukraine. The fact that he is a big shot of the Putinian regime to say this does
not detract from the fact that for a long time we have been denouncing how war is
waged every day from the American and NATO bases in Italy, and in particular from
the Sigonella base and the Niscemi MUOS. A war to which the Italian State, a
vassal of the USA and at the service of the energy and military lobbies, is
giving its warlike contribution by sending weapons to the Ukrainian army, with
the state of emergency launched for the whole of 2022, at order to allow the
executive to act in perfect freedom (a specific decree-law contains"An enabling
provision which, after a prior resolution of the Chambers, allows the Minister of
Defense to adopt an inter-ministerial decree for the transfer to the governmental
authorities of Ukraine of military means, materials and equipment, also in
specific derogation from certain provisions in force" ) , with the increase in
military spending, already exorbitant, up to 13 billion a year, 104 million euros
a day.

Italy is deeply in trouble in this war, and the declarations of the various
helmeted ministers or party leaders, who are scrambling to repeat that it is aid
to the resistance of the Ukrainian people, are roused with laughter. The
Ukrainian army is the puppet that carries Western weapons, carries out Western
orders, serves Western interests against the Russian army.
An irresponsible escalation was carried out by a European Union lacking common
sense and political strategies and crushed by American conditioning.
But we need to go back to Sigonella to fully understand the role of the US armed
forces in the Ukrainian conflict, and how crucial the role of this base is.
The journalist and activist AntonioMazzeo recently denounced that "AGS - Alliance
Ground Surveillance, the advanced terrestrial surveillance system of the Atlantic
Alliance based on five large intelligence drones, becomes fully operational in
Sigonella. This was announced by the US aerospace giant Northrop Grumman, creator
and main contractor of the AGS. " (...) Although access to information is allowed
to all 30 NATO partners, the AGS has been funded only by 15 countries (Italy,
Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania,
Luxembourg, Norway , Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and the United States):
the terrestrial surveillance system is the most expensive program in the long
history of the international organization, over 1.7 billion dollars according to
estimates dating back to 2008, but that with the latest allocations could have
exceeded a total expenditure of 2 billion. (...)
For the AGS program , a staff of 375 between militaries and civilians from 24
countries is already present in Sigonella but their number is destined to grow up
to 600 units. A kind of training and training center for drone pilots,
intelligence data analysts, sensor operators and maintenance personnel of the
NATO system (Sigonella Premier Training Center) will also function in the
Sicilian base. (...)
But the African continent is not the main operational theater of AGS drones
today. Prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and even more so after February
24, 2022, the unmanned aircraft hosted in Sigonella are used daily by NATO to
"oversee" and monitor all movements of the armed forces of Moscow in Ukrainian
territory, in Belarus and in the westernmost regions of the Russian Federation.
With the aggression against Ukraine, the missions in Eastern Europe have assumed
a central role in the NATO strategy of "deterrence" and "containment" against
Russia. Among the most significant war missions "traced" by ItaMilRadar is the
one carried out on March 22 by an RQ-4D "Phoenix" (codenamed Magma) together with
a US Air Force "Global Hawk", which also took off from Sigonella (Fort 10). While
the latter operated on the Black Sea and then on the border between Romania and
Moldova, the AGS drone flew over an area close to the western borders of Ukraine
and then "disappeared" from the radar after the deactivation of ADS-B transponder.
Also on April 6 a mission was "mapped out" by a US Air Force "Global Hawk" and a
"Phoenix" AGS. The first aircraft, after take-off from Sigonella, reached eastern
Poland, Romania, Moldavia and finally the Black Sea. The NATO drone, on the other
hand, immediately headed for the Black Sea for yet another top secret operation
after the blackout. of the radar detection system.
The spying operations of Sigonella's drones against Russian targets in Crimea and
Ukraine are considered by military analysts to be of enormous importance for what
could be the final results of the fighting between the armed forces of Kiev and
those of Moscow. And there are also those who believe that the sensitive
information collected by NATO and the US Air Force and subsequently transferred
to the Ukrainian military commands may have determined some of the "successes" in
the counterattacks against Russian means of war. "
And Mazzeo concludes: "Sigonella is the US and NATO eye and ear in the
Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Much more, therefore, than an Italian collaboration
in favor of Zelenski and the political-military establishment in Kiev: it is a
question of co-belligerence, no ifs and buts ".

At this point, if a Russian missile hit Niscemi we shouldn't be too surprised. By
dint of pulling it, the rope can break sooner or later.

Pippo Gurrieri

https://www.sicilialibertaria.it/2022/05/10/cobelligeranti/
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