Giorgia Meloni aligns with Nato e United States and in an interview with Out of the core are Rete4 criticizes the choice of the French president Emmanuel Macron to publicly put the option of European troops in Ukraine. A choice that contributed exclusively to raise the tensionclaims the Prime Minister, while “it must be muscular in fact and not in attitudes.” Thus, while the spokesperson of the US State Department, Matthew Miller, clarified that “the US will not send troops to Ukraine”, the prime minister declared: “I didn’t agree with Macron’s words, I said it to him too. I don’t agree with them and I’m convinced that we should pay attention to the tones that are used.”
For the leader of Brothers of Italy, the move by the French head of state is the opposite of what should be the strategies to follow on the Ukrainian dossier: fewer bombastic declarations but a hard line in facts. “In two years of war, when I was in opposition and then in government, I never used these tones precisely because I think that on serious matters one should react seriously“, has continued. However, she said that she was convinced that with the Russia Of Vladimir Putin the strategy of a hard fist and firmness applies: “This doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t do what is right and, if I may say so, we also need to be careful about how certain things are sold, in quotation marks.” To give an example, cite the latest document approved by European Council in which he was asked, among other things, to work for a “strengthened military-civil preparation”. An unclear formula which had led to the idea of an emergency plan also for the protection of European civilians in the event of a Russian attack: “I come from a European Council where civil protection was discussed and I find in various newspapers the fact that we would be preparing Europe to war. This is because there was a passage that said that the response to the crisis must be brought together in cooperation, but we were talking about civil protection, that is, response to crises, meaning floods, natural disasters, so much so that I defended the Civil Protection Italian also saying ‘be careful to establish cooperation that does not mean, so to speak, limiting the excellence of national states, right?’. So we also need to pay attention to how certain things are sold, because if we start doing it ourselves propagandalike the Russians, objectively we have a problem.”
Meloni is therefore convinced, like the leaders of the European institutions, that support for Kiev must remain and move forward in an increasingly resolute manner, without hesitation: “What Putin had in mind was one blitzkrieg that would have allowed him to invade Ukraine in a few days – he added – And if this had happened, I fear he would not have stopped. Those who try to help Ukraine distance the war from the possibility of it reaching the heart of Europe. We stopped him there. And in my opinion, if we don’t give up, we will also force him to sit at a negotiating table to seek a just peace, which is obviously the objective we have. Because it’s not like we’re having fun in the current environment. The important thing is that we know what goal we want.”
In his reasoning, therefore, there is no room for those who also ask Ukraine and its allies to make an effort towards negotiations to avoid a global escalation of the conflict: “With respect to the topic of the risks of a world War, I return to the sender the idea that those who try to help Ukraine want war and, almost, the Russians who invaded it are the ones who want peace. We need to take half a step back, Putin invaded Ukraine declaring that he wants to bring Russia back to its former greatness, that he wants to restore Russia’s historical borders. Russia’s historical borders reasonably incorporate Ukraine, Moldova, Georgiai Balticsa part of Finlandalso wanting the Poland. When there was the disastrous withdrawal by the West fromAfghanistan and an objective signal of weakness was given, Putin decided that this was the moment to try.”