Sunday 15 January 2017

DOES ITALY KNOW LIBYA ?

The reopening embassy in Tripoli, complete with a flag and Minniti, Minister Interior, press conference, for an agreement with the Serraj weak government to limit immigrant arrivals, has turned into a debacle for which there is no mitigation, if not both Renzi incompetences and Gentiloni Foreign Minister, now president of the Council. Useless for the victims to blame the French, Egyptians, Russians, Germans, British and Americans, who make their own interests, as ever in foreign policy.
The situation in Libya was known, aware of General Haftar was supported by Egypt, France, Russia and even from Saudi Arabia. Although he knew what Egypt was strategic, the Renzi government broke relations with Egypt, while our own media have unleashed a violent campaign against Al Sisi. Renzi counted on Hillary's victory for the direction of the mission in Libya, as declared to Corriere by US ambassador in Rome, relied in turn on sending in Libya 3 thousand Italian soldiers and Americans, to provide intelligence.
After Hillary's defeat and the resignation of Renzi, the government Gentiloni found that Schengen has failed and you have to stop the flow of migrants . Whether to send, January 9, Ambassador Perrone, who had to face the chaos of Tripoli and the weakness of al Sarraj, barricaded, as always, the naval base in Abu Sita. Tobruk has made it known through the interim government of Al Thani, a refugee in Cyrenaica with the parliament in Tripoli, which Italy had kicked off colonialist action.
On January 11 Haftar, backed by Egypt, arrived in Moscow and visited the flagship Kuznetsov. On January 13, French President Hollande, who has never made any secret of supporting Haftar and Egypt, said to Sarraj must dialogue with Cyrenaica and General usually Haftar, who also like the British. You do not understand the Italian media surprise, given that the Sarraj is a stranger to the Libyans, appointed by the UN via Martin Kobler to Shkirat (Morocco) and imposed on Tripoli.
Nor does it understand the wonder for the arrival of Russian ships in Cyrenaica: the next French president - Fillon or Le Pen - will have good relations with Russia. What do you expect frm Italian government? The arrival of Hillary cavalry? The new president is Trump, who was invited to the conference on Syria by Putin, the first sign, for the Washington Post, the new relationship with Moscow, which had excluded from the talks in which Obama will decide the structure of the Middle East.
The left has not understood, after thirty years since the end of communism, that Italy is no longer the border between East and West and is no longer a link between the North and the South of the world, a centrality that had been built by Andreotti and Craxi. This centrality is no more, are also changing the relationship between the US and Russia , but the left can not understand it because it is unable to leave the twentieth century. Italy, with Berlusconi that he had signed a partnership treaty with Libya, which excluded any military action by their respective countries, bombed the Jamahiriya with NATO.
The Libyans have resisted for seven months under appalling bombings, while the "rebels" Hillary advancing to take Tripoli. The Libyans have surrendered only when she fell Tripoli and Gaddafi was killed. Of course, the Libyans did not expect to be bombed just from Italy and we can expect only hostility. Libya is for us the greatest defeat after the Second World War. We can not blame the other Member Born of us forced to bomb Libya: France did the war in Iraq because it was against their own national interest.
It was Left party to want war at any cost to take out Gaddafi and make out Berlusconi. Napolitano was, at the time, an absolute monarch, to accede to Obama's decision for surgery. While Libya was bombed by NATO, Italy was being bombed by the spread, as Il Sole 24 Ore wrote. Here again we should think about the crisis that has plunged Italy and the Italian people pays.

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