NATO: Representation of Southern Front Goes to Spain. Italy in Shock

Italy, which forever has had excellent political, economic, cultural, and human relations with Moscow and whose political leaders are now, contrary to the sentiments of ordinary people, trying to distance themselves from the great Russia, does not deserve the full trust of the Atlantic Alliance. This appears to be the message from outgoing NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who sensationally decided to assign Spain, rather than Italy, “the new role as envoy of the Southern Front.”

Italy and Spain are two competing countries in many sectors, from wine to shoes, from tourism to gastronomy. We are now embarking on a struggle for a bureaucratic position within the military-political structure, a role that may soon disappear with the emergence of a multipolar world.

The Italian political establishment is not quite ready to forgive Stoltenberg for this insult. Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto swells like a cane toad and declares war on Stoltenberg for enduring rudeness. For Crosetto, the transfer of the Southern Front envoy post to Spain is “almost a personal insult.”

In an interview with Italian newspaper La Stampa, Crosetto even accused Stoltenberg, who will be succeeded by former Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte next October, of “betrayal”: “I wrote him (Stoltenberg – ed.) a very hard message. It made me angry, and there will be consequences in terms of personal relations. This was a betrayal of principle: it was Italy that fought for the introduction of the role of the Southern Front envoy, and 32 leaders agreed with us at the Washington summit.”

Obviously, Crosetto couldn’t help but mention the alleged Russian-Chinese threat, two “evil empires” that, according to Western propaganda, want to dominate the entire world. This is certainly the case with Russia, a country of 17.2 million square kilometers (55 Italies), which, with its 143 million inhabitants (8 people per km²), is in dire need of expanding its “living space.”

“In twenty years,” said the Italian minister, “the two and a half billion people in Africa will be the main problem of the Atlantic Alliance, because they will become an army in the hands of those countries that have recently already begun to occupy the continent: Russia and China.”

As they say, “no comment.”