The aggression against Ukraine is the project of the Third Reich in Europe
[QUOTE]In a speech last week, President Sergio Mattarella criticised the "wars of aggression" that led to World War Two. "This was the project of the Third Reich in Europe. The current Russian aggression against Ukraine is of this nature," he said.[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-02-14/italy-presidents-third-reich-comments-on-russia-spark-row-rome-moscow-row[/URL]
The statement was quite mild. I would put it quite differently, but, unlike Mattarella, I'm not a politician. Still Matarella's words, mild as they are, clearly reflect the reality of Putin's unprovoked aggressive war against Ukraine. I mean who in their right mind wouldn't see a glaring analogy between Hitler and Putin (although the former apparently wasn't a coward)? There is a reason he's called [B]Putler[/B] by his own countrymen. You'd have to be blind -- although, strike that -- blindness wouldn't prevent anyone with a brain function from seeing this link.
That statement, however, hurt the feelings of one Maria Zakharova, Russian Press Alcach (as she's called by her countrymen).
[QUOTE] Zakharova had accused Mattarella, a highly regarded former defence minister, of "scurrilous inventions" after he drew comparisons between the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Nazi Germany's wars of aggression.
In an address at a university at the beginning of February, Mattarella said there were parallels with the "project of the Third Reich" describing both invasions as a "war of conquest."
Zakharova responded, "It is strange and bizarre to hear scurrilous slander of this kind from the president of Italy, a country that truly knows what fascism is, not only from hearsay."[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.yahoo.com/news/italy-backs-president-attack-moscow-121828998.html?guccounter=1[/URL]
I guess what she meant to say was hey, you had fascism yourselves, so sit tight and shut your mouth.
Zakharova's belch didn't sit well with Prime Minister Meloni. Russia, she said, 'offended the entire Italian nation' by rejecting Third Reich comparison. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni described the attack from Zakharova as "an insult directed at the entire Italian nation" and other parties also backed the 83-year-old veteran politician. Mattarella has received cross-party support following a scathing attack from a Russian government spokeswoman regarding his remarks on the invasion of Ukraine.
[URL]https://www.politico.eu/article/italy-giorgia-meloni-russia-offended-entire-nation-russia-nazi-germany-comparison[/URL]
[URL]https://www.yahoo.com/news/italy-backs-president-attack-moscow-121828998.html[/URL]
The paper state and Xpartan
The hard reality is that a deal will be done without UA or Europe. Slinking away is the same play as USA did in the middle east and Vietnam as their puppets lost the audience.
I only need to know, from actual experience of having invested $ in UA between 2003 and 2017 and hired many staff from there the reality of their complete lack of faith and cynicism in the post 1991 newly created flag, jingo, and other symbols as a new label for the same bunch of corrupt cronies and all desperately wanting a chop in their passport to get out. They came from all over, some from Crimea, others in Kiev and 2 from the far east. Getting wages to them was a nightmare because the banks were very slimy, in the end we used DHL to move literal cash in CHF. Good workers too. Most emigrated. I don't pretend to be an expert; UA is a rag-tag bunch of political lines on a map (that changes regularly) of people who have all sorts of language, ethnic, greed, and other conflicts going on, just as the old Yugoslavia was an unstable, quivering mess. I'm sure this mess will create books for decades to come with as many versions of reality as there are players and agendas. I'm just as sure some key real estate will be sold cheap to the well connected and its official currency soon worthless.
What I do understand is money, corruption and power that occupies a vacuum. Ukraine, much of Africa, Burma, Venezuela are the same basic story, the real players changing their stripes and alliances as expedient and conning the population. What makes this slightly different was a few insiders in the USA funneling really big cash to their arms industry and banker buddies and indirectly to themselves by creating a war via NATO they knew full well Russia would go bananas over. USA staged a coup, rightly or wrongly, and Victoria Nuland and Biden were in it up to their necks. Both became extremely rich out of it. It made them a fortune as US taxpayers funneled cash to the junta parading the usual motherhood and apple pie symbols served up and then the nonsense "teams" like the Red Sox vs the Yankees manufactured tribalism. Works every time. Just as the USA demonizes China and craps on about virtue as the USA is falling apart, including ridiculous debt levels and a military we cannot afford for make believe wars as cover to loot the treasury.
We can only hope beautiful UA women gravitate to the FKK's of Germany. The $ pissed against the wall in UA could have provided subsidized BJ's to calm everyone down.
