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woensdag 31 januari 2024
WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY SICILIA News Journal Update - (en) Sicilia Libertaria: THE CORPORATE NARRATIVE OF MILITARY KLEPTOCRACY (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
According to a certain narrative, which presents itself regardless of its total unrealism, the government of the self-styled sovereignists would have surrendered to the new formulation of the Stability Pact imposed by Germany and France, as if these two countries were today in a position to be taken seriously by someone. Little Italy has never needed to be taught austerity by others, and deflation (the "lesina") is historically a value of our establishment; for which the "European constraints" have always served as an alibi and a screen for our own avarice. Moreover, certain historical precedents represent an Italian unicum. In 1976 Guido Carli, having just concluded his mandate as governor of the Bank of Italy, went to preside over Confindustria; therefore the head of the creditors' lobby became the director of a debtors' association; as if to reiterate that finance is more important than industry and, if necessary, must be sacrificed to the stability of the currency and the protection of the value of credits. In fact, the deindustrialization of Italy began in 1976; starting, as always, from the South. Many companies, instead of reinvesting the subsidies received from the government into production, used them to buy Treasury bonds. Furthermore, we are the only country where two former central bankers (Einaudi and Ciampi), that is, two heads of the creditors' assistance body, have become presidents of the Republic; and, if that naive Mario Draghi had not allowed himself to be fooled by Mattarella, today we would even have a third. (1)
However, the deflation lobby, i.e. the financial kleptocracy, has granted an exemption to the military kleptocracy. The Minister of Defense, Guido Crosetto, has in fact triumphantly announced that the text of the new version of the Pact would provide for the separation of military investments from budget constraints; therefore Leonardo's former Finmeccanica business is safe. (2) As Leonardo's good lobbyist, Crosetto does not hesitate to pass off military investments as a development factor; when instead he is the opposite, given that it is useful things, not weapons, that determine the economic multiplier. Especially since they are also useless as weapons, given that, for example, the F-35 fighter, in whose production Leonardo Finmeccanica is involved, is too expensive even to keep it functioning, so it would be of no use in the event of a real war. (3)
The unreliability of the F-35 fighter is proportional to its exorbitant costs, and has also highlighted grotesque aspects. Over the past year, the Marine Corps has reported three accidents involving the fighter. In an accident last September it took days to trace the wreckage of the aircraft, so even the remote tracking systems failed. This proves the fact that, despite the increasingly victimized official narrative, the Sacred West does not really feel threatened by anyone. The alarmist fury against the plethora of new Hitlers constantly lurking is only a function of the looting of public money by the military kleptocracy. (4)
Economist rhetoric is also invoked by Crosetto to justify the adventure of our Navy in the Red Sea, to hunt down the Houthis of Yemen who attack ships carrying goods to Israel. With the pretext of preventing an energy crisis and rising bills, an expansion of the conflict is justified, forgetting that economic logic, and also decency, would first require blocking the genocide in Gaza, which could lead to a regional war; and then there would really be a global energy crisis. (5)
Not to mention the other economic absurdity, that is, the fact of exposing military ships that cost billions to the risk of being damaged by drones that cost a few thousand euros each. To defend itself from these "low cost" drones, the Italian Navy should use French-produced "Aster" missiles, which cost around two million euros each, therefore a hundred times more than a Houthi drone. This re-edition of the nineteenth-century "gunboat policy" seems to ignore the fact that today we are no longer dealing with primitives armed with spears and shields. If Crosetto is lucky, maybe they will sink his frigate, so he can allocate the money to build another one more beautiful and more superb (and also more expensive) than he did before. (6)
On the other hand, economic and corporate rhetoric has become a vehicle and an advertising spot, with which the military kleptocracy tries to conquer young minds and accustom them to the inevitability of war. Thanks to the school-work alternation, militarism has fully entered education, given that the Army, the Navy and NATO are basically "companies". By doing internships, or working for free for the military lobby, young people are "trained", that is, they get used to confusing the economy with kleptocracy. (7) Even private universities profess the elective affinity between militarism and kleptocracy by organizing internships at NATO, which does not worry at all about showing its business side, on the contrary, it flaunts it. (8)
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