Italy calls for 'immediate' summit between US, Europe following Zelensky-Trump clash
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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.
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That could actually aid the US, of they were to shift again to a strong industrial base, and become an exporting nation.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgia_Meloni
"Prior to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, she was in favour of better relations with Russia and supported lifting sanctions on the Russian Federation in 2014. In 2018, she congratulated Vladimir Putin for his re-election as president. In 2021, she wrote that Russia under Putin defends European values and Christian identity."
Do your own research
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Chances he already made love to ot it
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That wouldn't happen under current cost of living conditions and with this administration. And if it does happen at some point, well that's the positive path out of this mess no? I don't think there's a solution that doesn't involve getting most Americans decent paying work.
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Everyone deserves a decent wage. It's wishful thinking but maybe this mess is the straw that breaks the camels back and systems shifts.
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A specific alliance is not an ideological change. She was allied of Russia until that was functional to pushing her own values (racism, anti-lgbtq, anti-muslim, christianity etc.), and didn't conflict with atlantism. Now that it does, things changed. If anything this is an argument in favour of my thesis.
You are talking about research as if this was not known to anybody.
You need to explain how this change in relationship with Russia is an ideological change. She also changed coalitions and historically she changed relationship with Lega and before that with Forza Italia. That doesn't prove that her ideology changed.Again, give a concrete example.
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I approve. As an American, I have been trying to swap my savings for Euros, because it feels like that the American Dollar will hyperinflate. However, I have a concern:
Musk is likely to try to install a Muskcoin and create a X Everything app, so that he can control the money of Americans. The EU will need to offer Euro banking services in the Blue States to oppose the establishment of Muskcoin. Also, blacklist American billionaires from European fiscal institutions, such as not accepting the swap of Musk's dollars for Euros or EU properties.
