Italy calls for 'immediate' summit between US, Europe following Zelensky-Trump clash
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Yes. You do. That's unquestionable. Ukraine is barely holding on with overall generous support from the USA and Europe.
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The government and invisible lines on the ground are barely holding. In many occasions Ukrainian people managed to defend themself with diy drones duck taped to explosive which proved to be more effective than equipment worth millions dollars.
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when the over extended USD crashes offer up the EU and move on while US sinks into a generational depression from the interest alone.
TLDR positive trade and international allies matter. Isolationism ends with one outcome.
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No, I think they had ideas. In Italy at least the ideological pillars were quite clear and are the same as they were 100 years ago.
Support to industrial class (capital) was a constant and still is. Militarism, religion in politics, nationalism, racial discrimination, anticommunism etc. also.
In general I agree that fascism is not an ideology as much as a way to conduct politics. But Italian fascists did not evolve or change in the last century. Maybe we can discuss how nationalism became atlantism (because anticommunism prevailed), but apart from that, I see quite a lot of stability in those ideas. -
No, I think they had ideas. In Italy at least the ideological pillars were quite clear and are the same as they were 100 years ago. Support to industrial class (capital) was a constant and still is. Militarism, religion in politics, nationalism, racial discrimination, anticommunism etc. also.
None of these things were a mussolini constant
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I can say a few words about that, since I make DIY drones (minus the explosives).
Motors: you cannot DIY them, you need a factory making magnets, ball bearings and stators, and a final factory for assembly.
Motor controllers: you cannot DIY them, you need a factory making microcontrollers, MOSFETs, PCB boards and a factory to assemble the stuff.
Flight controllers: same as with motor controllers, you need a factory to make them. Open source only comes in at the last step where you configure BetaFlight as you please.
Flight computers: same as with flight controllers, you need a factory. Fortunately Raspberry Pi, the world's most-produced microcomputer is made in the UK... from parts largely imported from China. DIY comes in at the last moment, where you choose the operating system and customize (or build) navigation software.
Batteries: you need a factory. DIY comes in if the factory doesn't make ideal batteries, so you buy loose cells and customize.
Fiber optical transceiver: I have not yet seen a garage-built one, though I have seen free space optical transceivers (currently not used in war fighting) that are pretty DIY. But you need components. You can't cook a silicon photomultiplier in a kitchen, you need a semiconductor factory.
Optical fiber: unfeasible to DIY. Samples can be made in a lab, but to make 20 kilometers of good fiber, you need a well-adjusted factory. You buy up telecom fiber, by shipload if you can, by truckload if you cannot.
Airframe: the airframe of a drone can be DIY-ed and this can convey benefits.
Camera: nope, cannot be DIY-ed.
Explosives: can be DIYed at the cost of accidents costing engineers' lives. So in practise, cannot be DIY-ed.
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choice for US jets was basically obligated for many countries because they had to choose a model that is capable of carrying US made nukes stored on territory. French and Brits make fine jets.
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I'm Italian and I would have never thought that Meloni would be the reasonable one in this shit. Oh well.
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Unfortunately, that next recession, which I believe likely becomes a depression, is going to slam everyone. The EU, USA, China, Russia, Japan, South Korea etc. all have major challenges and weaknesses.
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I am aware of my own country's history. Socialist roots of Mussolini contributed to the ideological foundation of fascism, and some of these roots are somewhat visible and remained until today in neofascist parties. For example, looking at how Forza Nuova and Casapound have deep roots in more proletarian suburbs and operated things like food delivery to poor people (only Italians, of course). The appeal to lower class while ultimately making the interests of capital is one of the reasons fascism is a hard disease to get rid of in Italy.
Not sure what you meant with the second link. The chapter of mixing religion and state is a very long discussion, and the racial discrimination is so obvious that I won't even try to argue it (from colonialism, to folks songs like "faccetta nera", to the practice of madamato).
In any case, the fascist tradition in Italy has been stable. Meloni is from Almirante's school, for example, and honestly I would be hard pressed to find substantial differences in core pillars of Almirante's party and Fratelli d'Italia.
Do you have any concrete example perhaps of areas in which fascist parties in Italy changed positions substantially over the years?
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Thanks for sharing your knowledge on drones. By diy i wasn't talking sourcing every material as if you were stranded on a desert island but rather referring to the modular drones already available. They also have been using rc cars with explosive, while making one from scratch would require an industry the idea is that there's plenty available already and people if needed can successfully defend themself with what they can source.
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Do you have any concrete example perhaps of areas in which fascist parties in Italy changed positions substantially over the years?
They always do like they are doing it right now
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So "no".
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The thing is, the US has 100,000 troops and god knows how much military materiel in Europe. America leaves NATO, you think they are just going to pick up all their people and stuff and go because we ask them to politely?
We need a European army yesterday.
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Scholz and Merkel have their flaws, but they're not fascist buffoons. Yep, that's where the bar is right now.
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I would start from removing dollar reserves from european banks. The value of money is only when people believe it have value. So if US money won't have any value Europe won't need US help.
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I think you'd have to play psychology there to be honest. Next time Trump asks for payments for the troops, for example, you might wanna say "actually, we were thinking you should be paying rent."
It's a really messy situation. While the EU/USA are allies, those troops do increase security. But there is already a threat simply by those troops being there, and if the USA becomes a full blown enemy yeah it's a grave threat.
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She is just trying to act as interface between Europe (edit) and US. No idea why Italian government is always convinced to have a special relationship with the US, most likely because they are non threading to US hegemony as Germany or France are.
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The sourcing is what actually makes people worry, and makes the Ukrainian government ask from every big supplier: "do you have a backup plan that works without Chinese parts?".
Tracing the supply chains would reveal that Europe has only half of the industries needed to make a decent drone - with the rest coming from China, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, etc.
In peaceful times, it would not be such a problem - "oh, we cannot make autonomous agricultural vehicles".
In not so peaceful times, it's a considerable risk, and a lot of people are working to lower the risk. It means setting up industries which were outsourced to the other side of the planet.