Is World War III approaching? Ukraine, Palestine, the Red Sea are the
hot fronts of a picture whose protagonists are the same, the challenges
and the stakes are the same. Without forgetting Sub-Saharan Africa,
Libya, areas of the Middle East, such as Rojava where the Turkish army
takes advantage of international "distractions" to carry out its project
of extermination of the Kurdish people. ---- But the most disturbing,
perverse and evident signal comes from Europe, where there are growing
itchings towards direct involvement in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict,
justified by a hypothetical US disengagement in the Mediterranean, the
void of which should be covered by a rapid rearmament of the States of
the Union. A strategy that now seems more than defined (apart from the
German hesitation), and which cannot tolerate obstacles, not even the
Pope's words on the negotiation. And in this the EU, Great Britain and
the USA are consistent: since before the conflict, and during these two
years, they have always nipped in the bud any attempt to negotiate, even
when Zelensky himself seemed convinced of it, imposing the murderous war
policy at all costs, training Kiev's puppet for this purpose, preferring
to sacrifice thousands and thousands of men in uniform and the civilian
population to the madness of war and the certainty that Putin would give
in, or that Russia would implode as it would not be able to hold on for
long conflict and international sanctions.
Things did not go like this, and in a few months the war risks turning
into a defeat for Kiev, short of ammunition and consensus, fresh from
the failure of the counter-offensive trumpeted in recent months. But in
Brussels they don't want to admit this, they raise the bar and aim for
the generalized rearmament of the Union, at the prospect of a war
economy, which will mean (as it already does) further cuts to welfare to
increase military production in order to prepare for real war. Such
brazen interventionism has not been seen for some time: an extra billion
and a half for the common defense of the EU, use of Eurobonds and extra
profits deriving from seized Russian assets, readjusting the function of
the European Investment Bank from infrastructure to security and to the
defense.
The resolution of the European Parliament incites to fight "until
victory", even at the cost of sending ground troops, as Macron has
already announced and as Meloni herself committed to doing in her recent
trip to Kiev by signing an agreement to this effect; the EU Council of
20 March explicitly talks about preparation and future readiness
strategy and its president Michel calmly fires: "if we want peace, let's
prepare for war".
Therefore in 2024 the EU will allocate another 5 billion in aid to
Ukraine through the fund called "European Peace Facility"! France is
training the 126th regiment to intervene in the conflict; in Germany,
France and Italy, hybrid models of military conscription are being
studied, because the one in Donbass is trench warfare, not just
technological, and cannon fodder is needed to be sent into the mud to
dig and die. Poland, Britain and France already have trainers and field
assistants, NATO personnel who direct the use of sophisticated weapons
whose secrets cannot be put into the hands of the unreliable Ukrainian
military.
Add to this that Poland allocates 27 million to build or restore bunkers
on the border; that the German soldiers go to prepare the youth for a
possible conflict by going to schools; whereas Denmark will
institutionalize female military conscription starting in 2026; whereas
Sweden has already reintroduced a form of semi-compulsory military
conscription; and above all the commitments to send the first F-16
fighter-bombers and long-range missiles to Ukraine by the summer, "to
avoid defeat". And NATO is strengthening its air base in Constanta, on
the Black Sea: 3000 hectares, a 10 km perimeter, 10,000 soldiers
deployed on the border with Russia while Stoltenberg speaks of Ukraine's
inevitable entry into NATO.
It's Italy? Like the other countries of the Union, it has emptied its
deposits and urgently needs an armament policy and the money to
implement it. Let us remember that in these two years of war it has
spent for Ukraine, between humanitarian and military aid, the enormous
figure of 5.4 billion euros, which coincidentally corresponds to the
amount cut from the Citizenship Income, demonstrating how the
connections between war and social policies are very close. He will give
Ukraine another billion by 2027. In 2023 alone he sold them weapons
worth 417 million, including chemical, toxic and radioactive agents. In
the lead Leonardo, Rheinmetall, RWM, Iveco, Avio followed by many others.
The West spent a whopping 108 billion on this war, of which 42 was the
USA and 52 the EU; only that the USA is making up for itself by
replacing Russia as a supplier of liquefied gas and in other commercial
areas. By emphasizing the Russian danger, they reach into citizens'
meager wallets, moving huge sums from welfare policies to military ones,
hiding the reality of the many dodgers and deserters who, in Ukraine as
in Russia, try to escape the carnage decided by criminals who govern
them. They are silent about the 300,000 men fleeing from Ukraine, a
story that would highlight the madness of this (as of all wars), and
about mass desertion, today the only way to weaken and empty conflicts
of meaning.
Given the much talk of peace regarding the tragic situation in Gaza and
the ongoing genocide, in the month of December alone the Italian
government sold weapons worth 1.3 billion to Israel, tripling the dirty
deals compared to a year earlier; in the first three months of the
conflict the Italian war industry gave Israel 2.1 billion in weapons and
ammunition (from Fiocchi to Beretta, to Alenia Aermacchi, owned by
Leonardo, which sold 30 M-346 military trainer aircraft with which
Israel trains the pilots who bomb Gaza). A government with hands stained
with the blood of massacred Palestinian civilians, engaged in a foreign
policy with the complicity of the opposition. Moreover, the business of
the Italian military sector, well represented in the government, is
going swimmingly: exports between 2019 and 2023 increased by 86%; 71% of
Italian weapons end up in states (dictatorships) of the Middle East,
used against those who dare to challenge the prevailing oil and military
order. In first place in this export of death we find Egypt, which
continues to mock Italy over the Regeni case.
To govern this situation, the internal front must also be silenced:
security decrees, prison for migrants, beatings for students, arrests
for the radical opposition, hard lines in trials, precepts for those who
strike, soldiers in schools.
We must succeed in having the ability to respond blow for blow, to
support Russian and Ukrainian defectors and promote this choice as the
most coherent ever to oppose the war; we need to strengthen the fights
against military bases, war industries, projects to strengthen the war
structures of both Italy and NATO and the USA. And above all we must
circulate the slogan of the general strike against the war, as a form of
immediate and international struggle to be adopted when the sirens of
the murderers in uniform begin to sound. Because the war must be
opposed, it must be sabotaged, it must be boycotted.
https://www.sicilialibertaria.it/
_________________________________________
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hot fronts of a picture whose protagonists are the same, the challenges
and the stakes are the same. Without forgetting Sub-Saharan Africa,
Libya, areas of the Middle East, such as Rojava where the Turkish army
takes advantage of international "distractions" to carry out its project
of extermination of the Kurdish people. ---- But the most disturbing,
perverse and evident signal comes from Europe, where there are growing
itchings towards direct involvement in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict,
justified by a hypothetical US disengagement in the Mediterranean, the
void of which should be covered by a rapid rearmament of the States of
the Union. A strategy that now seems more than defined (apart from the
German hesitation), and which cannot tolerate obstacles, not even the
Pope's words on the negotiation. And in this the EU, Great Britain and
the USA are consistent: since before the conflict, and during these two
years, they have always nipped in the bud any attempt to negotiate, even
when Zelensky himself seemed convinced of it, imposing the murderous war
policy at all costs, training Kiev's puppet for this purpose, preferring
to sacrifice thousands and thousands of men in uniform and the civilian
population to the madness of war and the certainty that Putin would give
in, or that Russia would implode as it would not be able to hold on for
long conflict and international sanctions.
Things did not go like this, and in a few months the war risks turning
into a defeat for Kiev, short of ammunition and consensus, fresh from
the failure of the counter-offensive trumpeted in recent months. But in
Brussels they don't want to admit this, they raise the bar and aim for
the generalized rearmament of the Union, at the prospect of a war
economy, which will mean (as it already does) further cuts to welfare to
increase military production in order to prepare for real war. Such
brazen interventionism has not been seen for some time: an extra billion
and a half for the common defense of the EU, use of Eurobonds and extra
profits deriving from seized Russian assets, readjusting the function of
the European Investment Bank from infrastructure to security and to the
defense.
The resolution of the European Parliament incites to fight "until
victory", even at the cost of sending ground troops, as Macron has
already announced and as Meloni herself committed to doing in her recent
trip to Kiev by signing an agreement to this effect; the EU Council of
20 March explicitly talks about preparation and future readiness
strategy and its president Michel calmly fires: "if we want peace, let's
prepare for war".
Therefore in 2024 the EU will allocate another 5 billion in aid to
Ukraine through the fund called "European Peace Facility"! France is
training the 126th regiment to intervene in the conflict; in Germany,
France and Italy, hybrid models of military conscription are being
studied, because the one in Donbass is trench warfare, not just
technological, and cannon fodder is needed to be sent into the mud to
dig and die. Poland, Britain and France already have trainers and field
assistants, NATO personnel who direct the use of sophisticated weapons
whose secrets cannot be put into the hands of the unreliable Ukrainian
military.
Add to this that Poland allocates 27 million to build or restore bunkers
on the border; that the German soldiers go to prepare the youth for a
possible conflict by going to schools; whereas Denmark will
institutionalize female military conscription starting in 2026; whereas
Sweden has already reintroduced a form of semi-compulsory military
conscription; and above all the commitments to send the first F-16
fighter-bombers and long-range missiles to Ukraine by the summer, "to
avoid defeat". And NATO is strengthening its air base in Constanta, on
the Black Sea: 3000 hectares, a 10 km perimeter, 10,000 soldiers
deployed on the border with Russia while Stoltenberg speaks of Ukraine's
inevitable entry into NATO.
It's Italy? Like the other countries of the Union, it has emptied its
deposits and urgently needs an armament policy and the money to
implement it. Let us remember that in these two years of war it has
spent for Ukraine, between humanitarian and military aid, the enormous
figure of 5.4 billion euros, which coincidentally corresponds to the
amount cut from the Citizenship Income, demonstrating how the
connections between war and social policies are very close. He will give
Ukraine another billion by 2027. In 2023 alone he sold them weapons
worth 417 million, including chemical, toxic and radioactive agents. In
the lead Leonardo, Rheinmetall, RWM, Iveco, Avio followed by many others.
The West spent a whopping 108 billion on this war, of which 42 was the
USA and 52 the EU; only that the USA is making up for itself by
replacing Russia as a supplier of liquefied gas and in other commercial
areas. By emphasizing the Russian danger, they reach into citizens'
meager wallets, moving huge sums from welfare policies to military ones,
hiding the reality of the many dodgers and deserters who, in Ukraine as
in Russia, try to escape the carnage decided by criminals who govern
them. They are silent about the 300,000 men fleeing from Ukraine, a
story that would highlight the madness of this (as of all wars), and
about mass desertion, today the only way to weaken and empty conflicts
of meaning.
Given the much talk of peace regarding the tragic situation in Gaza and
the ongoing genocide, in the month of December alone the Italian
government sold weapons worth 1.3 billion to Israel, tripling the dirty
deals compared to a year earlier; in the first three months of the
conflict the Italian war industry gave Israel 2.1 billion in weapons and
ammunition (from Fiocchi to Beretta, to Alenia Aermacchi, owned by
Leonardo, which sold 30 M-346 military trainer aircraft with which
Israel trains the pilots who bomb Gaza). A government with hands stained
with the blood of massacred Palestinian civilians, engaged in a foreign
policy with the complicity of the opposition. Moreover, the business of
the Italian military sector, well represented in the government, is
going swimmingly: exports between 2019 and 2023 increased by 86%; 71% of
Italian weapons end up in states (dictatorships) of the Middle East,
used against those who dare to challenge the prevailing oil and military
order. In first place in this export of death we find Egypt, which
continues to mock Italy over the Regeni case.
To govern this situation, the internal front must also be silenced:
security decrees, prison for migrants, beatings for students, arrests
for the radical opposition, hard lines in trials, precepts for those who
strike, soldiers in schools.
We must succeed in having the ability to respond blow for blow, to
support Russian and Ukrainian defectors and promote this choice as the
most coherent ever to oppose the war; we need to strengthen the fights
against military bases, war industries, projects to strengthen the war
structures of both Italy and NATO and the USA. And above all we must
circulate the slogan of the general strike against the war, as a form of
immediate and international struggle to be adopted when the sirens of
the murderers in uniform begin to sound. Because the war must be
opposed, it must be sabotaged, it must be boycotted.
https://www.sicilialibertaria.it/
_________________________________________
A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E
By, For, and About Anarchists
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