WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY SICILIA News Journal Update - (en) Sicilia Libertaria 4/2023: War. The affairs of the war industry and of the "reconstructors" of peace (ca, de, it, pt, tr) [machine translation]

 "Empty the arsenals, fill the barns", said Sandro Pertini forty years ago. Today

the first part of this sentence is being fully implemented by many countries,
NATO and non-NATO, including Italy. Depots are being emptied by sending all types
of armaments and equipment to Ukraine, thereby doing a favor to the war industry
called upon to quickly produce new and increasingly modern weapons to fill the
arsenals, weapons with greater destructive capacity, therefore more expensive.
---- It is a brilliant moment for the military-industrial sector. The USA is
doing great business, and Italy has already spent at least one billion euros on
supplies sent to the Ukrainian government. But it didn't just send "old" weapons
that were in storage to rust; it has also sent the Samp T missile defense system
which is ultra-modern, even if, in substance, it is not possible to know the
types of weapons sent to Ukraine because they are classified. Soviet-made weapons
held by former Warsaw Pact countries are also flowing into Ukraine along with new
tools, such as the Patriot anti-missile system or Leopard tanks.

As long as this market holds, it is not clear why the war should stop. Ministers
like Crosetto, with direct interests in the war industry, cannot help but push
for the conflict to continue... until victory (of their interests and those of
their counterparts). And then everyone is ready for the reconstruction binge!

Thus, a diplomatic route cannot be glimpsed in the panorama, and Xi's latest
outings are blocked by Biden and Zelensky, despite the willingness to discuss
them with other European leaders.

But the proxy war between US-NATO and Russia must continue; he expects the spring
offensive, that is, other massacres on which to swear revenge and continue like
this until one or both sides are exhausted. This offensive will bring back the
60,000 Ukrainian soldiers who have followed training courses in the USA, Great
Britain, Poland, the Baltic countries; they will be fully armed with those
armaments and tools that they have learned to use. Proving who the real
contenders are.

The bar is raised: depleted uranium ammunition will arrive from Great Britain,
and Putin promptly replies that he will move tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus,
a mere propaganda move, since even keeping them in Russian positions would not
have changed anything. In our "Western Front" the question causes embarrassment.
Italy, in particular, behaves as if it didn't concern it. Yet depleted uranium
should be understood: it was used generously in the Balkans (Bosnia, Serbia,
Kosovo) in 1999; in Iraq in 2003, and there are still people dying there. Just as
400 Italian soldiers present in those battlefields have died in the course of
these 20 years, and 8,000 have fallen ill. Trials are also underway in Italy for
the use of depleted uranium in Sardinian military polygons; the state was
sentenced to many reparations. Something that does not happen in Serbia, where
NATO claims to evade all proceedings.

In addition to these crimes there is the sometimes tragicomic affair of the
international arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court in The
Hague against Vladimir Putin. Too bad that court is not recognized by the United
States, China, Russia... or Ukraine. The exultation of the United States clashes
with the attitude of a few years ago, when Trump threatened to arrest any judge
of the ICC. that he had dared to touch US military for their behavior in
Afghanistan. After all, as "Un ponte per..." declares, for 20 years we have been
waiting for the arrest warrant for Bush and Blair for the war crimes committed by
having unleashed the conflict in Iraq by providing false evidence.

While this game of words, propaganda and true death and destruction is being
played, there is no mention of those who oppose the war. If we talk about it, it
is for propaganda, so on the Western Front we are interested in the opposition in
Russia, on the Eastern Front we are interested in that of the NATO countries. But
the opposition which contests all kinds of wars, which does not get drafted from
any camp, is overwhelmed by the media campaign. Silenced the deserters, the
objectors, the volunteers who resist and lend their work to the victims without
being engulfed by the militaristic logic.

And in Italy we are witnessing the usual phenomenon of addiction: war is a daily
news that interests less and less; the squares are semi-empty, they are few, they
have no relevance, they cannot affect the warlike policies of the government.

Here, from these considerations and from these ideas we should start again to
relaunch an anti-war movement worthy of the name, which identifies in its own
territories the ends of the conflict and of all conflicts and resumes practicing
resistance. And there are: military bases, barracks, centers of propaganda and
ideological pollution, such as schools, increasingly subjected to the militarist
campaign.

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