Mardy (Posts about Union Europee)http://mardy.it/categories/union-europee.atom2024-02-02T20:11:13ZAlberto MardeganNikolaUn editoriale di Marco Travagliohttp://mardy.it/blog/2023/03/un-editoriale-di-marco-travaglio.html2023-03-01T20:37:28+03:002023-03-01T20:37:28+03:00Alberto Mardegan<p>Nonostante io non legga più Il Fatto Quotidiano (per i motivi spiegati
<a href="http://mardy.it/blog/2016/10/il-fatto-quotidiano-plagio-e-propaganda.html">qui</a>, che restano tuttora
validi), continuo a imbattermi negli editoriali di Marco Travaglio, che spesso
apprezzo. Oggi invece mi sono imbattuto nell'introduzione del suo nuovo libro
<a href="https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/articoli/2023/02/24/un-anno-di-bugie-per-mettere-agli-italiani-lelmetto-no-pax/7075675/">“Scemi di
guerra”</a>,
e ve ne riporto un estratto che ho trovato particolarmente incisivo.</p>
<hr>
<p>Abbiamo abolito la storia. È vietato raccontare ciò che è accaduto in Ucraina
prima del 24 febbraio 2022: gli otto anni di guerra civile in Donbass dopo il
golpe bianco (anzi, nero) di Euromaidan nel 2014 e le migliaia di morti e feriti
causati dai continui attacchi delle truppe di Kiev e delle milizie filo-naziste
al seguito contro le popolazioni russofone e russofile che, col sostegno di
Mosca, chiedevano l’indipendenza o almeno l’autonomia. Il tutto in barba ai due
accordi di Minsk. La versione ufficiale, l’unica autorizzata, è che prima del
2022 non è successo niente: una mattina Putin s’è svegliato più pazzo del
solito e ha invaso l’Ucraina. Se la gente scoprisse la verità, capirebbe che il
mantra atlantista “Putin aggressore e Zelensky aggredito” vale solo dal 2022:
prima, per otto anni, gli aggressori erano i governi di Kiev (l’ultimo, quello
di Zelensky) e gli aggrediti i popoli del Donbass. Fra le vittime, c’è il
giornalista italiano Andrea Rocchelli, ucciso dall’esercito ucraino… Abbiamo
abolito la geografia. Proibito mostrare la cartina dell’allargamento della Nato
a Est negli ultimi 25 anni (da 16 a 30 membri)… Eppure, che la Nato si sia
allargata a Est, accerchiando e assediando la Russia, minacciandone la
sicurezza con installazioni di missili nucleari sempre più vicine al confine,
in barba alle promesse fatte a Gorbaciov nel 1990, fino all’ultima provocazione
di annunciare l’imminente ingresso nell’Alleanza dei vicini di casa della
Russia – Georgia e Ucraina – è un fatto storico indiscutibile…</p>
<p>L’altra cartina proibita è quella dei Paesi che non condannano o non sanzionano
la Russia, o se ne restano neutrali: quasi tutta l’Asia, l’Africa e l’America
Latina, cioè l’87% della popolazione mondiale. Ma al nostro piccolo mondo
antico occidentale piace far credere che Putin è isolato e noi lo stiamo
circondando. Sul fatto che Cina, India, Brasile e altri paesucoli stiano con
lui o non stiano con noi, meglio sorvolare: altrimenti lo capiscono tutti che
le sanzioni non funzionano… Solo abolendo la storia si può credere al
presidente Sergio Mattarella quando ripete che “l’Ucraina è la prima guerra nel
cuore dell’Europa nel dopoguerra”. E Belgrado bombardata anche dall’Italia nel
1999 dov’è, in Oceania? E chi era il vicepremier del governo D’Alema che
bombardava Belgrado? Un certo Mattarella… Abbiamo abolito il rispetto per le
altre culture. In una folle ondata di russofobia, abbiamo visto ostracizzare
direttori d’orchestra, cantanti liriche, pianiste di fama mondiale, fotografi,
atleti (anche paraolimpici), persino gatti e querce, soltanto perché russi. E
poi censurare corsi su Dostoevskij, cancellare dai teatri i balletti di
Cajkovskij, addirittura estromettere la delegazione russa dalle celebrazioni
per la liberazione di Auschwitz. Come se il lager l’avessero liberato gli
americani o gli ucraini e non l’Armata Rossa… i trombettieri della Nato
propagandano la bufala dell’“euroatlantismo” e gli scemi di guerra se la
bevono, senz’accorgersi che mai come oggi gli interessi dell’Europa sono
opposti a quelli dell’America. </p><p>Nonostante io non legga più Il Fatto Quotidiano (per i motivi spiegati
<a href="http://mardy.it/blog/2016/10/il-fatto-quotidiano-plagio-e-propaganda.html">qui</a>, che restano tuttora
validi), continuo a imbattermi negli editoriali di Marco Travaglio, che spesso
apprezzo. Oggi invece mi sono imbattuto nell'introduzione del suo nuovo libro
<a href="https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/articoli/2023/02/24/un-anno-di-bugie-per-mettere-agli-italiani-lelmetto-no-pax/7075675/">“Scemi di
guerra”</a>,
e ve ne riporto un estratto che ho trovato particolarmente incisivo.</p>
<hr>
<p>Abbiamo abolito la storia. È vietato raccontare ciò che è accaduto in Ucraina
prima del 24 febbraio 2022: gli otto anni di guerra civile in Donbass dopo il
golpe bianco (anzi, nero) di Euromaidan nel 2014 e le migliaia di morti e feriti
causati dai continui attacchi delle truppe di Kiev e delle milizie filo-naziste
al seguito contro le popolazioni russofone e russofile che, col sostegno di
Mosca, chiedevano l’indipendenza o almeno l’autonomia. Il tutto in barba ai due
accordi di Minsk. La versione ufficiale, l’unica autorizzata, è che prima del
2022 non è successo niente: una mattina Putin s’è svegliato più pazzo del
solito e ha invaso l’Ucraina. Se la gente scoprisse la verità, capirebbe che il
mantra atlantista “Putin aggressore e Zelensky aggredito” vale solo dal 2022:
prima, per otto anni, gli aggressori erano i governi di Kiev (l’ultimo, quello
di Zelensky) e gli aggrediti i popoli del Donbass. Fra le vittime, c’è il
giornalista italiano Andrea Rocchelli, ucciso dall’esercito ucraino… Abbiamo
abolito la geografia. Proibito mostrare la cartina dell’allargamento della Nato
a Est negli ultimi 25 anni (da 16 a 30 membri)… Eppure, che la Nato si sia
allargata a Est, accerchiando e assediando la Russia, minacciandone la
sicurezza con installazioni di missili nucleari sempre più vicine al confine,
in barba alle promesse fatte a Gorbaciov nel 1990, fino all’ultima provocazione
di annunciare l’imminente ingresso nell’Alleanza dei vicini di casa della
Russia – Georgia e Ucraina – è un fatto storico indiscutibile…</p>
<p>L’altra cartina proibita è quella dei Paesi che non condannano o non sanzionano
la Russia, o se ne restano neutrali: quasi tutta l’Asia, l’Africa e l’America
Latina, cioè l’87% della popolazione mondiale. Ma al nostro piccolo mondo
antico occidentale piace far credere che Putin è isolato e noi lo stiamo
circondando. Sul fatto che Cina, India, Brasile e altri paesucoli stiano con
lui o non stiano con noi, meglio sorvolare: altrimenti lo capiscono tutti che
le sanzioni non funzionano… Solo abolendo la storia si può credere al
presidente Sergio Mattarella quando ripete che “l’Ucraina è la prima guerra nel
cuore dell’Europa nel dopoguerra”. E Belgrado bombardata anche dall’Italia nel
1999 dov’è, in Oceania? E chi era il vicepremier del governo D’Alema che
bombardava Belgrado? Un certo Mattarella… Abbiamo abolito il rispetto per le
altre culture. In una folle ondata di russofobia, abbiamo visto ostracizzare
direttori d’orchestra, cantanti liriche, pianiste di fama mondiale, fotografi,
atleti (anche paraolimpici), persino gatti e querce, soltanto perché russi. E
poi censurare corsi su Dostoevskij, cancellare dai teatri i balletti di
Cajkovskij, addirittura estromettere la delegazione russa dalle celebrazioni
per la liberazione di Auschwitz. Come se il lager l’avessero liberato gli
americani o gli ucraini e non l’Armata Rossa… i trombettieri della Nato
propagandano la bufala dell’“euroatlantismo” e gli scemi di guerra se la
bevono, senz’accorgersi che mai come oggi gli interessi dell’Europa sono
opposti a quelli dell’America. </p>A peace plan for Ukrainehttp://mardy.it/blog/2023/01/un-piano-di-pace-per-lucraina.html2023-01-21T22:33:56+03:002023-01-21T22:33:56+03:00Alberto Mardegan<p>Among the peace plans proposed by various European and U.S. politicians, to be
frank, I haven't read a single one which I would consider even remotely
feasible. My impression is that such plans have been redacted more for a need
to fool one's voters and present onself as a peace operator (whereas one
factually supports sending of weapons and tightening of sanctions) than for a
genuine peace effort, since every politician that had spent even just a few
minutes to document oneself on the situation around Ukraine would perfectly
know that these peace plans are not just unacceptable by the Russians, but
plainly unpresentable.</p>
<p>A believable peace plan must first and foremost take into account the reasons
that pushed Russia to invade Ukraine and, above all, those who push the Russian
people to support the war. It's certainly legitimate, and even reasonable, to
doubt the official reasons: on the contrary, it's very likely that the reasons
who push Russia to continue this “special operation” are, at least in part,
others, economical in nature and to the benefit of a few especially powerful
individuals (arm producers above all). We can put our heart at rest, and
accept the fact that we'll never get to know the real reasons; but, on the
other hand, it's not even so important to know them, after all.</p>
<p>What we really need to know is the mood of the Russian population, and
especially the reasons why president Putin's popularity has risen after the
invasion of Ukraine. The mainstream information we get in the West is not
helpful at all in this, because it's since 2014 that it omits reporting
important facts about the war in Donbass. Well, nowadays the Russian people are
constantly fed images of civilians dying in Donetsk and in other cities of the
Donbass, right in the center of the cities, where there are no military
targets. We can call it propaganda, sure, but the facts are real and are just
an aggravated continuation of what has been happening for the past 8 years, all
well documented by the OSCE mission and by the Office of the High Commissioner
of the Human Rights of the United Nations<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="http://mardy.it/blog/2023/01/un-piano-di-pace-per-lucraina.html#fn:1">1</a></sup>.</p>
<p>Besides, the massive transfer of weapons and the episodes of discrimination
against Russian artists, athletes, personalities of the culture and
entertainment, sometimes against the very Russian language, these are all
widely publicized by local mass media and get the Russians convinced that their
country is fighting an existential war against a horde of fascists, and,
militarily, against the whole of NATO.</p>
<p>If the West had really the will to restore peace it should work to destroy this
representation of itself and disarm the Russian propaganda by removing the
facts on which it's built. Specifically, I'm persuaded that many of the
following points would be well received by the Western population and would
demotivate the Russian people (including many of the soldiers stationed at the
front) in fighting this fratricidal war:</p>
<ol>
<li>Removal of every discrimination against Russian culture and its
representatives and performers.</li>
<li>Promise that Ukraine won't be let into NATO or in other military alliances
that would go beyond the commitment to reciprocal defense (that is, no to
joint military drills or foreign bases in the territory of Ukraine, yes to a
promise of military intervention in case of attack).</li>
<li>Pausing the shipment of weapons until Ukraine removes the title of hero of
Ukraine to Stepan Bandera and other members of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_of_Poles_in_Volhynia_and_Eastern_Galicia">nazist organisation
UPA</a>.</li>
<li>Pausing the shipment of weapons until Ukraine stops bombing civilian
settlements devoid of military installations.</li>
</ol>
<p>It should be noted that none of these points require collaboration or
agreements between states (even joining NATO can only happen after the
unanymous vote of all current members, as Turkey reminds us), so they all could
be immediately implemented by any willing state. The bigger the number of
Western countries pushing forward these policies, the more uncertainty will
grow among the Russian population, and will ultimately transform into
incomprehension and dissatisfaction, since this would destroy the ideological
reasons that make the Russians support the conflict.</p>
<p>If we are to speak of a peace plan, agreed among NATO, Ukraine and Russia, then
it could be developed along these lines:</p>
<ol>
<li>Ukraine condemns the nazist ideology (therefore Bandera and friends),
accepts to open an international commission of inquiry (including Russia as
well) over the massacres of Maidan square and Odessa.</li>
<li>Ukraine grants the status of second official language to the Russian
language, similarly to how Swedish language is treated in Finland<sup id="fnref:2"><a class="footnote-ref" href="http://mardy.it/blog/2023/01/un-piano-di-pace-per-lucraina.html#fn:2">2</a></sup>.</li>
<li>Ukraine enacts laws to guarantee a limited autonomy to the 5 regions
currently under Russian control (including Crimea) and amnesty for all those
rebels that are not found guilty of war crimes (in other words, a sort of
Minsk accords extended to all the occupied regions).</li>
<li>Ukraine promises not to host military forces or equipment from other
countries in its territory, and to not participate in joint military drills,
without the consent of the Russian federation. It can, however, join
defensive military alliances.</li>
<li>Ukraine promises to never enact sanctions against Russia, nor to require
visa from Russian citizens in order to cross its borders.</li>
<li>The Russian army withdraws and gets temporarily replaced by the army of a
third country, not member of NATO, chosen by Ukraine.</li>
<li>New referendums, under the supervision of international observers (including
Ukrainians and Russians) in the 5 contested regions. Times will be
established by Ukraine. Russia and Ukraine commit to recognize and implement
their results.</li>
<li>The peace mission introduced in point 6 gets wrapped up.</li>
</ol>
<p>It's of fundamental importance understanding that territorial questions are
only a secondary matter, and that what is most pressing for the Russian people
is to have good relations with the neighbouring countries: not having to worry
about coups, colour revolutions stirred up by the West or about other attempts
to use Ukraine as a weapon against Russia. If, for example, there were a
Russian region that desired to separate itself from the federation and join
Belarus, I'm convinced that this could happen in a peaceful way without serious
repercussions, since the relationships between the two countries are good and
Belarus is not perceived as a threat. This was also the situation with Ukraine
before 2014<sup id="fnref:3"><a class="footnote-ref" href="http://mardy.it/blog/2023/01/un-piano-di-pace-per-lucraina.html#fn:3">3</a></sup>, and it's the situation to which we should strive to return to.</p>
<div class="footnote">
<hr>
<ol>
<li id="fn:1">
<p>See for example the <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Countries/UA/ReportUkraineMay-August2018_EN.pdf">report for the period May-August
2018</a>,
page 5, point 22. More reports can be found <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents-listing?field_content_category_target_id[180]=180&field_content_category_target_id[182]=182&field_geolocation_target_id[1136]=1136&field_entity_target_id[1349]=1349&field_published_date_value[min]=&field_published_date_value[max]=&sort_bef_combine=field_published_date_value_DESC&page=0">in this list</a>. <a class="footnote-backref" href="http://mardy.it/blog/2023/01/un-piano-di-pace-per-lucraina.html#fnref:1" title="Jump back to footnote 1 in the text">↩</a></p>
</li>
<li id="fn:2">
<p>Note that Swedish in Finland is the native language for just 5% of the
population, whereas in Ukraine Russian is the native language of about 30% of
the population. <a class="footnote-backref" href="http://mardy.it/blog/2023/01/un-piano-di-pace-per-lucraina.html#fnref:2" title="Jump back to footnote 2 in the text">↩</a></p>
</li>
<li id="fn:3">
<p>Not exactly, since there had already been attempts at colour revolutions
resulting in anti-Russian governments. But I hope you'll pass this
oversimplification of mine here. <a class="footnote-backref" href="http://mardy.it/blog/2023/01/un-piano-di-pace-per-lucraina.html#fnref:3" title="Jump back to footnote 3 in the text">↩</a></p>
</li>
</ol>
</div><p>Among the peace plans proposed by various European and U.S. politicians, to be
frank, I haven't read a single one which I would consider even remotely
feasible. My impression is that such plans have been redacted more for a need
to fool one's voters and present onself as a peace operator (whereas one
factually supports sending of weapons and tightening of sanctions) than for a
genuine peace effort, since every politician that had spent even just a few
minutes to document oneself on the situation around Ukraine would perfectly
know that these peace plans are not just unacceptable by the Russians, but
plainly unpresentable.</p>
<p>A believable peace plan must first and foremost take into account the reasons
that pushed Russia to invade Ukraine and, above all, those who push the Russian
people to support the war. It's certainly legitimate, and even reasonable, to
doubt the official reasons: on the contrary, it's very likely that the reasons
who push Russia to continue this “special operation” are, at least in part,
others, economical in nature and to the benefit of a few especially powerful
individuals (arm producers above all). We can put our heart at rest, and
accept the fact that we'll never get to know the real reasons; but, on the
other hand, it's not even so important to know them, after all.</p>
<p>What we really need to know is the mood of the Russian population, and
especially the reasons why president Putin's popularity has risen after the
invasion of Ukraine. The mainstream information we get in the West is not
helpful at all in this, because it's since 2014 that it omits reporting
important facts about the war in Donbass. Well, nowadays the Russian people are
constantly fed images of civilians dying in Donetsk and in other cities of the
Donbass, right in the center of the cities, where there are no military
targets. We can call it propaganda, sure, but the facts are real and are just
an aggravated continuation of what has been happening for the past 8 years, all
well documented by the OSCE mission and by the Office of the High Commissioner
of the Human Rights of the United Nations<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="http://mardy.it/blog/2023/01/un-piano-di-pace-per-lucraina.html#fn:1">1</a></sup>.</p>
<p>Besides, the massive transfer of weapons and the episodes of discrimination
against Russian artists, athletes, personalities of the culture and
entertainment, sometimes against the very Russian language, these are all
widely publicized by local mass media and get the Russians convinced that their
country is fighting an existential war against a horde of fascists, and,
militarily, against the whole of NATO.</p>
<p>If the West had really the will to restore peace it should work to destroy this
representation of itself and disarm the Russian propaganda by removing the
facts on which it's built. Specifically, I'm persuaded that many of the
following points would be well received by the Western population and would
demotivate the Russian people (including many of the soldiers stationed at the
front) in fighting this fratricidal war:</p>
<ol>
<li>Removal of every discrimination against Russian culture and its
representatives and performers.</li>
<li>Promise that Ukraine won't be let into NATO or in other military alliances
that would go beyond the commitment to reciprocal defense (that is, no to
joint military drills or foreign bases in the territory of Ukraine, yes to a
promise of military intervention in case of attack).</li>
<li>Pausing the shipment of weapons until Ukraine removes the title of hero of
Ukraine to Stepan Bandera and other members of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_of_Poles_in_Volhynia_and_Eastern_Galicia">nazist organisation
UPA</a>.</li>
<li>Pausing the shipment of weapons until Ukraine stops bombing civilian
settlements devoid of military installations.</li>
</ol>
<p>It should be noted that none of these points require collaboration or
agreements between states (even joining NATO can only happen after the
unanymous vote of all current members, as Turkey reminds us), so they all could
be immediately implemented by any willing state. The bigger the number of
Western countries pushing forward these policies, the more uncertainty will
grow among the Russian population, and will ultimately transform into
incomprehension and dissatisfaction, since this would destroy the ideological
reasons that make the Russians support the conflict.</p>
<p>If we are to speak of a peace plan, agreed among NATO, Ukraine and Russia, then
it could be developed along these lines:</p>
<ol>
<li>Ukraine condemns the nazist ideology (therefore Bandera and friends),
accepts to open an international commission of inquiry (including Russia as
well) over the massacres of Maidan square and Odessa.</li>
<li>Ukraine grants the status of second official language to the Russian
language, similarly to how Swedish language is treated in Finland<sup id="fnref:2"><a class="footnote-ref" href="http://mardy.it/blog/2023/01/un-piano-di-pace-per-lucraina.html#fn:2">2</a></sup>.</li>
<li>Ukraine enacts laws to guarantee a limited autonomy to the 5 regions
currently under Russian control (including Crimea) and amnesty for all those
rebels that are not found guilty of war crimes (in other words, a sort of
Minsk accords extended to all the occupied regions).</li>
<li>Ukraine promises not to host military forces or equipment from other
countries in its territory, and to not participate in joint military drills,
without the consent of the Russian federation. It can, however, join
defensive military alliances.</li>
<li>Ukraine promises to never enact sanctions against Russia, nor to require
visa from Russian citizens in order to cross its borders.</li>
<li>The Russian army withdraws and gets temporarily replaced by the army of a
third country, not member of NATO, chosen by Ukraine.</li>
<li>New referendums, under the supervision of international observers (including
Ukrainians and Russians) in the 5 contested regions. Times will be
established by Ukraine. Russia and Ukraine commit to recognize and implement
their results.</li>
<li>The peace mission introduced in point 6 gets wrapped up.</li>
</ol>
<p>It's of fundamental importance understanding that territorial questions are
only a secondary matter, and that what is most pressing for the Russian people
is to have good relations with the neighbouring countries: not having to worry
about coups, colour revolutions stirred up by the West or about other attempts
to use Ukraine as a weapon against Russia. If, for example, there were a
Russian region that desired to separate itself from the federation and join
Belarus, I'm convinced that this could happen in a peaceful way without serious
repercussions, since the relationships between the two countries are good and
Belarus is not perceived as a threat. This was also the situation with Ukraine
before 2014<sup id="fnref:3"><a class="footnote-ref" href="http://mardy.it/blog/2023/01/un-piano-di-pace-per-lucraina.html#fn:3">3</a></sup>, and it's the situation to which we should strive to return to.</p>
<div class="footnote">
<hr>
<ol>
<li id="fn:1">
<p>See for example the <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Countries/UA/ReportUkraineMay-August2018_EN.pdf">report for the period May-August
2018</a>,
page 5, point 22. More reports can be found <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents-listing?field_content_category_target_id[180]=180&field_content_category_target_id[182]=182&field_geolocation_target_id[1136]=1136&field_entity_target_id[1349]=1349&field_published_date_value[min]=&field_published_date_value[max]=&sort_bef_combine=field_published_date_value_DESC&page=0">in this list</a>. <a class="footnote-backref" href="http://mardy.it/blog/2023/01/un-piano-di-pace-per-lucraina.html#fnref:1" title="Jump back to footnote 1 in the text">↩</a></p>
</li>
<li id="fn:2">
<p>Note that Swedish in Finland is the native language for just 5% of the
population, whereas in Ukraine Russian is the native language of about 30% of
the population. <a class="footnote-backref" href="http://mardy.it/blog/2023/01/un-piano-di-pace-per-lucraina.html#fnref:2" title="Jump back to footnote 2 in the text">↩</a></p>
</li>
<li id="fn:3">
<p>Not exactly, since there had already been attempts at colour revolutions
resulting in anti-Russian governments. But I hope you'll pass this
oversimplification of mine here. <a class="footnote-backref" href="http://mardy.it/blog/2023/01/un-piano-di-pace-per-lucraina.html#fnref:3" title="Jump back to footnote 3 in the text">↩</a></p>
</li>
</ol>
</div>The Mediahttp://mardy.it/blog/2022/09/the-media.html2022-09-15T23:29:28+03:002022-09-15T23:29:28+03:00Alberto Mardegan<p>Ah, the media. No words from me are necessary here: just read these two
articles, then read their titles again, then wonder.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://news.mc/2022/09/12/ukrainian-refugees-attacked-by-russian/">news.mc/2022/09/12/ukrainian-refugees-attacked-by-russian/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://news.mc/2022/09/15/assailant-appears-in-court-charged-with-assault-on-ukrainian-refugees/">news.mc/2022/09/15/assailant-appears-in-court-charged-with-assault-on-ukrainian-refugees/</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Just wow.</p><p>Ah, the media. No words from me are necessary here: just read these two
articles, then read their titles again, then wonder.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://news.mc/2022/09/12/ukrainian-refugees-attacked-by-russian/">news.mc/2022/09/12/ukrainian-refugees-attacked-by-russian/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://news.mc/2022/09/15/assailant-appears-in-court-charged-with-assault-on-ukrainian-refugees/">news.mc/2022/09/15/assailant-appears-in-court-charged-with-assault-on-ukrainian-refugees/</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Just wow.</p>Cammino quindi penso - 2019-02-16 - Un messaggio ad Alessandro Di Battistahttp://mardy.it/blog/2019/02/cammino-quindi-penso-2019-02-16-un-messaggio-ad-alessandro-di-battista.html2019-02-17T09:50:53+03:002019-02-17T09:50:53+03:00Alberto Mardegan<p></p><center>
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<p>Non ci serve più Europa, né tantomeno i risultati elettorali dell'omonimo partito.</p><p></p><center>
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<p>Non ci serve più Europa, né tantomeno i risultati elettorali dell'omonimo partito.</p>Cammino quindi penso - 2018-10-12 - Finanziaria, lo spread è un'armahttp://mardy.it/blog/2018/10/cammino-quindi-penso-2018-10-12.html2018-10-12T21:07:00+03:002018-10-12T21:07:00+03:00Alberto Mardegan<center><iframe width="720" height="405" src="//rutube.ru/play/embed/11441741" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe></center>
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Una previsione sullo "spread", perché secondo me supererà quota 400 e come potrebbe reagire il nostro governo.</p><center><iframe width="720" height="405" src="//rutube.ru/play/embed/11441741" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe></center>
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Una previsione sullo "spread", perché secondo me supererà quota 400 e come potrebbe reagire il nostro governo.</p>Ukrainian journalist Ruslan Kotsaba at the EU parliament (28-2-2017)http://mardy.it/blog/2017/03/ukrainian-journalist-ruslan-kotsaba-at.html2017-03-16T20:06:00+03:002017-03-16T20:06:00+03:00Alberto Mardegan<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hE3hYSBaH04" width="480"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>English:</i></div>Ruslan Kotsaba spent more than one year in prison for refusing to fight pro-russian rebels in eastern Ukraine (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/10/ukraine-draft-dodgers-jail-kiev-struggle-new-fighters" target="_blank">article from The Guardian</a>).<br><br>
In this hearing at the European Parliament, he tells his views on the situation in Ukraine, telling facts that EU parliament members - misinformed by Western media - have never heard before.<br><br>
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Ruslan Kotsaba ha trascorso più di un anno in prigione per essersi rifiutato di combattere i ribelli filorussi nell'est dell'Ucraina (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/10/ukraine-draft-dodgers-jail-kiev-struggle-new-fighters" target="_blank">articolo dal The Guardian</a>).<br><br>
In questa udienza al parlamento europeo, esprime il suo punto di vista sulla situazione in Ucraina, rivelando verità che gli europarlamentari - disinformati dai mezzi di informazione occidantali - mai hanno sentito prima.<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hE3hYSBaH04" width="480"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>English:</i></div>Ruslan Kotsaba spent more than one year in prison for refusing to fight pro-russian rebels in eastern Ukraine (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/10/ukraine-draft-dodgers-jail-kiev-struggle-new-fighters" target="_blank">article from The Guardian</a>).<br><br>
In this hearing at the European Parliament, he tells his views on the situation in Ukraine, telling facts that EU parliament members - misinformed by Western media - have never heard before.<br><br>
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Ruslan Kotsaba ha trascorso più di un anno in prigione per essersi rifiutato di combattere i ribelli filorussi nell'est dell'Ucraina (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/10/ukraine-draft-dodgers-jail-kiev-struggle-new-fighters" target="_blank">articolo dal The Guardian</a>).<br><br>
In questa udienza al parlamento europeo, esprime il suo punto di vista sulla situazione in Ucraina, rivelando verità che gli europarlamentari - disinformati dai mezzi di informazione occidantali - mai hanno sentito prima.Cammino quindi penso - 2017-01-19 - Europa e democraziahttp://mardy.it/blog/2017/01/cammino-quindi-penso-2017-01-19-europa.html2017-01-19T14:09:00+03:002017-01-19T14:09:00+03:00Alberto Mardegan<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rgStujz27bw?list=PLKUiV5WyrCmsmjJ3Pq8sN-_jywSMuuFo8" width="480"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: left;">L'Unione Europea, così com'è strutturata oggi, rappresenta il più grande furto di democrazia ai danni dei cittadini europei. Il consiglio d'Europa ha un potere eccessivo, sproporzionato rispetto al mandato dei suoi membri, eppure viene quasi ignorato dai mezzi di comunicazione di massa — portando, di conseguenza, a una mancanza di dibattito sui temi più importanti.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rgStujz27bw?list=PLKUiV5WyrCmsmjJ3Pq8sN-_jywSMuuFo8" width="480"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: left;">L'Unione Europea, così com'è strutturata oggi, rappresenta il più grande furto di democrazia ai danni dei cittadini europei. Il consiglio d'Europa ha un potere eccessivo, sproporzionato rispetto al mandato dei suoi membri, eppure viene quasi ignorato dai mezzi di comunicazione di massa — portando, di conseguenza, a una mancanza di dibattito sui temi più importanti.</div>Cammino quindi penso: dinamiche sovranazionalihttp://mardy.it/blog/2016/12/cammino-quindi-penso-dinamiche.html2016-12-13T15:27:00+03:002016-12-13T15:27:00+03:00Alberto Mardegan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Oggi dico la mia sui "poteri forti" e su come questo argomento viene trattato da molti giornalisti e commentatori politici:<br>
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Oggi dico la mia sui "poteri forti" e su come questo argomento viene trattato da molti giornalisti e commentatori politici:<br>
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Se preferite non vedere il mio simpatico musetto, <a href="https://soundcloud.com/camminoquindipenso/2016-12-13-dinamiche-sovranazionali" target="_blank">cliccate qui per la versione solo audio</a>.</div>Why Russians (and me) are cheering for Trumphttp://mardy.it/blog/2016/11/why-russians-and-me-are-cheering-for.html2016-11-09T08:50:00+03:002016-11-09T08:50:00+03:00Alberto Mardegan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Let me start by saying that I'm far from being a Trump fan, and that I believe that in this election the American people were voting between self destruction (Trump) and World War III (Clinton).<br>
They could have voted for a far better candidate, whom the whole world would have envied them, that is Jill Stein. But the media and the propaganda campaign from the two main candidates ensured that people were just too worried of averting the risk of either self destruction or WW3 to take any other option into consideration. Hopefully time and experience will teach us, that in a democracy we must choose the option that we like the most, and not be calculators. But I digress.<br>
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Clinton's campaign has often hinted that Putin was cheering for Trump's victory. While the connection is not obvious at all, and the markets seems to think otherwise (now, as results are out, the Pound, Dollar and Ruble are down, while Euro is gaining), there's indeed some support for Donald Trump in the Russian media and people. And while I'm not Russian, I do share this feeling and I'd like to try to explain you the reasons. Given that I do not represent Russians, and that I might be completely misreading their thought, I'm going to use the first person from now on; so if you don't like what you read, just blame me. :-)<br>
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First of all, Trump has made some <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/21/us/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-putin-russia.html" target="_blank">positive statements</a> in the topics of Russia, and world peace in general, by appearing to be willing to rethink NATO's role. He also made clear that <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/31/politics/donald-trump-russia-ukraine-crimea-putin/index.html" target="_blank">Russia would not have taken Crimea</a> from Ukraine, had he been president, a statement which I like to read in the sense that he would have not supported the Maidan coup in the first place. And generally, Trump appears not to be fond on military interventions all other the world.<br>
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Secondly, while Americans and the West in general regard at the U.S. as the most perfect democracy, I do have a much more disillusioned view of democracy. Impopular laws are all over the world, referendums are held and then ignored (like the Greek bailout referendum in 2015, most referendums in Italy, and possibly the Brexit one too), decisions are being taken in secret and/or without any public debate (EU association agreement with Ukraine, EU sanctions against Russia, EU agreement on refugees with Turkey, etc.). Given that I'm convinced that Trump will simply not be allowed to be the U.S. president, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sbT3_9dJY4&feature=youtu.be&t=13m08s" target="_blank">as Julian Assange recently said</a>, or that he'll have to radically change his positions on NATO and the finacial establishment if he wants to keep the power, it will be interesting to see how this "perfect democracy" will twist its rules or its president in order to overturn the legitimate electoral result. The hope is that this will help opening people's eyes to how our democracies are really being controlled by the big powers.<br>
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Third, the fact that Trump is despised by most intellectuals and politicians in the West is a perfect opportunity for Western countries to rethink their relationship with the U.S., and switch from a complete subjection to a more critical stance. Which does not mean that we should be hostile to the U.S., please do not misunderstand me on that, but simply stop blindly obeying any order coming from there and start thinking of our own interests.<br>
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These are my hopes; but to be realist, the most likely thing is that Trump will simply mutate his positions and become a puppet of the big powers and continue preserving the status quo, while continue screaming against Mexicans and immigrants, and continue with the current imperialistic policies and with the exploitable-poor-creating-machine (i.e., "war", which creates floods of cheap labour while we steal their countries' resources) all around the world. And with the media calmly telling us that our vote counts.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Let me start by saying that I'm far from being a Trump fan, and that I believe that in this election the American people were voting between self destruction (Trump) and World War III (Clinton).<br>
They could have voted for a far better candidate, whom the whole world would have envied them, that is Jill Stein. But the media and the propaganda campaign from the two main candidates ensured that people were just too worried of averting the risk of either self destruction or WW3 to take any other option into consideration. Hopefully time and experience will teach us, that in a democracy we must choose the option that we like the most, and not be calculators. But I digress.<br>
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Clinton's campaign has often hinted that Putin was cheering for Trump's victory. While the connection is not obvious at all, and the markets seems to think otherwise (now, as results are out, the Pound, Dollar and Ruble are down, while Euro is gaining), there's indeed some support for Donald Trump in the Russian media and people. And while I'm not Russian, I do share this feeling and I'd like to try to explain you the reasons. Given that I do not represent Russians, and that I might be completely misreading their thought, I'm going to use the first person from now on; so if you don't like what you read, just blame me. :-)<br>
<br>
First of all, Trump has made some <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/21/us/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-putin-russia.html" target="_blank">positive statements</a> in the topics of Russia, and world peace in general, by appearing to be willing to rethink NATO's role. He also made clear that <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/31/politics/donald-trump-russia-ukraine-crimea-putin/index.html" target="_blank">Russia would not have taken Crimea</a> from Ukraine, had he been president, a statement which I like to read in the sense that he would have not supported the Maidan coup in the first place. And generally, Trump appears not to be fond on military interventions all other the world.<br>
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Secondly, while Americans and the West in general regard at the U.S. as the most perfect democracy, I do have a much more disillusioned view of democracy. Impopular laws are all over the world, referendums are held and then ignored (like the Greek bailout referendum in 2015, most referendums in Italy, and possibly the Brexit one too), decisions are being taken in secret and/or without any public debate (EU association agreement with Ukraine, EU sanctions against Russia, EU agreement on refugees with Turkey, etc.). Given that I'm convinced that Trump will simply not be allowed to be the U.S. president, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sbT3_9dJY4&feature=youtu.be&t=13m08s" target="_blank">as Julian Assange recently said</a>, or that he'll have to radically change his positions on NATO and the finacial establishment if he wants to keep the power, it will be interesting to see how this "perfect democracy" will twist its rules or its president in order to overturn the legitimate electoral result. The hope is that this will help opening people's eyes to how our democracies are really being controlled by the big powers.<br>
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Third, the fact that Trump is despised by most intellectuals and politicians in the West is a perfect opportunity for Western countries to rethink their relationship with the U.S., and switch from a complete subjection to a more critical stance. Which does not mean that we should be hostile to the U.S., please do not misunderstand me on that, but simply stop blindly obeying any order coming from there and start thinking of our own interests.<br>
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These are my hopes; but to be realist, the most likely thing is that Trump will simply mutate his positions and become a puppet of the big powers and continue preserving the status quo, while continue screaming against Mexicans and immigrants, and continue with the current imperialistic policies and with the exploitable-poor-creating-machine (i.e., "war", which creates floods of cheap labour while we steal their countries' resources) all around the world. And with the media calmly telling us that our vote counts.</div>Le NATO del Esthttp://mardy.it/blog/2016/11/le-nato-del-est.html2016-11-04T21:05:00+03:002016-11-04T21:05:00+03:00Alberto Mardegan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Io ha trovate un breve interview, registrate alicun menses retro per le television italian, a un ex commandante del NATO. Io vos lo propone, in su original in italiano (il ha anque subtitulos in anglese):<br>
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Fabio Mini esseva le commandante del fortias NATO in Kosovo. On pote leger plus informationes super ille in <a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabio_Mini" target="_blank">su pagina de Wikipedia in italiano</a> o in <a href="http://www.european-centre.org/the-centre/advisory-council/fabio-mini/" target="_blank">iste sito in anglese</a>.</div>
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Fabio Mini esseva le commandante del fortias NATO in Kosovo. On pote leger plus informationes super ille in <a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabio_Mini" target="_blank">su pagina de Wikipedia in italiano</a> o in <a href="http://www.european-centre.org/the-centre/advisory-council/fabio-mini/" target="_blank">iste sito in anglese</a>.</div>
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