Fortress Europe is sharpening its teeth (for now, the baby teeth) and
preparing sturdy steel dentures for the times to come when THE enemy parexcellence (the Russian bear) will attack it to take it by the throat.
So let's move forward with the 'planned' allocation of 800 billion euros
for the arms industry - European but especially American - move forward
with rearmament, with the reintroduction of military service and above
all with the militarization of the entire society. Move forward towards
war: after all, it is always with a bloodbath that nations are born,
grow and consolidate. The history of European states is there to tell us
this. The last of the series was the bloody conflict (now forgotten) of
the 90s in the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the consequent
birth of many small states. Now it is Europe's turn, which if it wants
to give life to the fateful United States of Europe must take the path
of war sacrifice, of common blood shed against THE enemy: the only
method to make people feel truly European, European nationalists,
peoples crossed and separated by centuries of conflicts, oppositions,
antagonisms. The language of weapons is unique, understandable and
practicable by all.
By now the watchword of the European army is on the lips of: media,
prestigious intellectuals, excellent journalists, high-ranking
politicians. In Europe and in Italy. Macron, who in fact even dusts off
the intentions of the Nouvelle Droite, offers the atomic umbrella
together with the Labour Starmer, the Polish Tusk confidently states
that war with Russia is a matter of little, the German Merz loudly wants
rearmament and nuclear bombs. Liberal Democrats, Christian Socialists,
Social Democrats all arm in arm to vote in Brussels to give 800 billion
to the ravenous arms industry. In Italy, the usual theater of
opportunism typical of 'I would like to but I can't' is on stage. The
Italian political class must deal with a public opinion (the real one,
not the one interpreted by the media) that, in majority, is against war
and rearmament, that does not like the bureaucracy of the EU, nor Putin,
nor Trump. And would rather like a health system that works, that wages
increase, that public services are up to social demand. So here are the
cunning of Meloni who juggles between Trump and the EU, the Democratic
Party with one foot in two shoes and uses the vote on the 800 billion
for internal showdown, Salvini's League that raises its voice but then
remains in the government that votes for rearmament.
And all this in a framework of warmongering rhetoric spread liberally by
'authoritative' voices that call Italian males to virile pride, to
fighting spirit: soon we will arrive at the belly-fichisti of
Mussolinian memory.
There are also those like Michele Serra, from the columns of Repubblica,
the newspaper of the Elkann Agnelli family, who called to take to the
streets to demonstrate for Europe, gathering support left and right,
another significant picture of what is happening in our country: hiding
in the name of European unity the plan for overall rearmament and
political centralization led by the strongest states of the EU. Under
the blue flags, the shareholders of the main Italian arms industry,
Leonardo, marched together with the rainbow flags of the CGIL, those of
the PD and Fratoianni. But the Europe for which they marched is that of
the European Commission, led by Ursula von der Leyen, that of the
latest, severe and inhuman, laws on the forced repatriation of illegal
immigrants. It is not the Europe of Altiero Spinelli and Ernesto Rossi.
The opportunity is also unique for continental nationalism, with Trump
attacking the European Union by threatening economic devastation and the
withdrawal of American troops (and in the meantime sending the latest
generation atomic bombs to US bases on the old continent...), even
leaving NATO (when in reality he simply wants to use it for greater
supplies of US-branded weapons) and the covert alliance with Putin's
Russia to undermine his relationship with China.
The modification of the structure of the Union can pass through the
military choice by delegating the de facto direction of its policy to
the economically and numerically strongest States. France, Germany,
Poland, Italy, Spain have given life to separate meetings also bringing
Labour-led Great Britain back into the EU fold. The increase in military
spending, the reorganization of the military industry, are on the table,
the problem is, for them, what form the necessary centralization and
command of the entire operation will take.
The transformation of the EU into an imperialist and militarist giant on
a par with the USA, Russia and China has long been the desire of the
national bourgeoisies of the old continent. Until now they have enjoyed
the benefits of the American 'protection' guaranteed to them against any
possible social uprising, while suffering the brake placed by the USA on
any strategic autonomy. But now that the intercapitalist clash brought
to the extreme by Trump is white-hot, thanks to the policy of duties,
and the growing appetites towards other territories and their resources
(Greenland - and in perspective the Arctic -, Canada and Panama, not to
mention the robbery agreement on Ukrainian rare earths), these
bourgeoisies are on a war footing and are putting on the table the
issue, now unavoidable for them, of the concrete unity, therefore
political and military, of the agglomeration of the 27.
Preserving their markets, therefore their profits and their industrial
apparatus becomes fundamental to survive in this phase where one of the
main players, the USA, has decided to collect its credits and reduce its
debts.
Mario Draghi's 'Competitiveness Report' becomes, in this context, the
Bible of the good European nationalist. Hence the revision of community
policies, first and foremost that of the automobile industry, the
reduction of ecological transition plans, the relaunch of nuclear power,
and, the icing on the cake, the construction of a continental
military-industrial hub capable of giving oxygen to the European
production apparatus, thanks to the enormous economic contribution of
the 800 billion promised by Ursula von der Leyen with her 'ReArm
Europe', debt money taken away from social spending. This is nothing
new; for some time now, in Italy, we have been accustomed to the
transfer of social wealth from the public to the private sector, and
this also in the wake of EU policies based on austerity. That austerity
that has heavily impoverished the European proletariat. Let us remember
Greece and how much the Hellenic population suffered thanks to those
policies that made a mess of even a minimal solidarity between peoples,
this being the founding element of any conception of unity. That unity
that is invoked today to face the enemy, the same invocation that has
always been raised at the time of weapons and conflict. An invocation
that hides a plan far more dangerous than an enemy that has no intention
of reaching Lisbon: that of the militarization of society, of its forced
hierarchization, of its transformation/conversion into a headless block
imbued with suprematism however it manifests itself.
The collapse of the world order that we are experiencing, the end of
bipolarism, the emergence of new political and economic subjects, global
warming with all its effects and the migratory processes that it will
generate, the changes induced by the growing application of artificial
intelligence in the world of work and in society, are all elements that
push towards authoritarian solutions if we are not able to give
effective answers, if we do not raise symbolic and concrete barricades
to the rampant barricade. Unmasking the rhetoric of the unity of
fortress Europe and its army is a step in this direction.
Massimo Varengo
https://umanitanova.org/quale-europa-nostra-patria-e-il-mondo-intero/
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