From Brexit to Bannon’s failed Movement, the through‑line has always been fragmentation: dismantling the European Union into smaller, more pliable states that Washington could manage one‑by‑one. Where Bannon faltered, Heritage has stepped in — not only with slogans, but with policy machinery designed to export Trump’s nationalist agenda across the Atlantic.
‘Make Europe Great Again’ and more from a longer version of the National Security Strategy
Read More »Even after Italy’s BRIexit, the central government, companies, and local authorities will likely continue, and even boost, relations with China across the board.
Italy Wants to Exit the Belt and Road – But Without Curbing Ties With China
Tens of thousands of Italians have signed a petition protesting Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s planned address at a Eurovision-style song contest. Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini told reporters that the event “should remain the festival of Italian song and nothing else.”
Thousands of Italians sign-up against Zelensky speech
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Nearly a year in, the war in Ukraine has cost hundreds of thousands of lives and brought the world to the brink of, in President Joe Biden’s own words, “Armageddon.” Alongside the literal battlefield has been a similarly bitter intellectual battle over the war’s causes.
Diplomatic Cables Show Russia Saw NATO Expansion as a Red Line
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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni confirmed her government’s support for the European Union, NATO and Ukraine on Tuesday, October 25, in her first address to parliament, one month after her far-right party won a historic election victory.
Giorgia Meloni says Italy committed to EU, NATO and Ukraine
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Meloni wins final confidence vote, pledges support for Ukraine
Ahead of the vote, Meloni had defended her policy aims, stating that the only way to facilitate a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine is by helping Kyiv defend itself militarily.
“Peace can be achieved by supporting Ukraine … it is the only chance we have for the two sides to negotiate,” she said.
Way to stick it to the establishment! /s
If you ditch their narrative just to fall for their counter-narrative, you’re not waking up, you’re barely changing bed side.
The real Giorgia Meloni is nothing like on TV
But it’s time to snooze off now.
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The Times is HORRIFIED by Giorgia Meloni’s victory, screaming that it harks back to the swift ascent of Mussolini—which, back then, THRILLED the New York Times
Here’s how the New York Times reported Mussolini’s rise to power 100 years ago
NYT:
Giorgia Meloni Wins Voting in Italy, in Breakthrough for Europe’s Hard Right
They are wrong in Kremlin if anyone thinks that Italy will become the EU’s weak link vis-à-vis Russia. The center-right coalition won in the elections on 25 September. A success far beyond the expectations of Giorgia Meloni, the right-wing passionate who grew up in the myth of “good” fascism and Tolkien as a natural leader. The center-right that is about to govern Italy is made up of three different political groups. The real winner of the dispute is the “Fratelli d’Italia”, the party founded a little over ten years ago by Giorgia Meloni, Ignazio La Russa and Guido Crosetto. Heirs of the post-fascist tradition, the women and men led by Meloni have always been on the margins of society. They are the heirs of the tradition of the Italian Social Movement, the party that was liquidated in the mid-nineties after Mussolini’s rejection of nostalgia.
No Russian Shadow Over Italy. Con Giorgia Meloni Rome Confirms Itself As Washington’s Most Faithful Ally
Meloni has bashed the migrant population – and praised Benito Mussolini.
Who is Giorgia Meloni, the far-right firebrand and Steve Bannon ally who might be Italy’s next prime minister?
THE ANGRY ARAB: What Arab Media Is Saying About Ukraine
The Gulf regimes feel Putin is more loyal than the U.S., and the mischievous behavior of UAE and Saudi Arabia in the last few weeks is an expression of their frustration with U.S. role in the region. (Riyadh, for instance, is in talks with China to trade some of its oil in yuan, which would deal a blow to the U.S. dollar that is used in 80 percent of world oil sales. Until now, the Saudis have exclusively used the dollar. And Emirati and Saudi leaders have refused to take Biden’s phone calls.)
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The UAE had long planned to become the new Israel in the region, but Qatar may have won that dubious honor. The Russian-Ukrainian war may lead the U.S. to further overlook those regimes’ despotism and atrocities in return for continued acts of loyalty.
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