Fedele
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Fedele
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Ex artig. piastrellista, Politica x passione, mamma & papà Il resto è ideologia gender/woke Svolta a destra 1994.





BREAKING: While Trump posted “48 hours before all Hell will reign down,” the European leader closest to him was in Doha telling Italian national television: “This time, we do not agree.” Giorgia Meloni became the first EU, NATO, G7, and G20 leader to set foot in the Gulf since the war began on February 28. She flew into countries under active bombardment to negotiate gas contracts. The UAE engaged 23 ballistic missiles and 56 Iranian drones on the same day she was scheduled to arrive there. She came anyway. She came for gas. Italy gets 10 percent of its total gas consumption from Qatari LNG. Qatar’s Ras Laffan export facility was hit by Iranian missiles, losing 17 percent of its capacity. QatarEnergy declared force majeure on Italian cargoes, cancelling five shipments. Meloni sat in Lusail Palace with the Amir and pledged that Italy would contribute to restoring Qatari energy infrastructure damaged by Iranian bombing. She reaffirmed the necessity of reopening the Strait of Hormuz. She did not offer a single warplane to help reopen it. Italy denied the US use of Sigonella airbase for offensive operations. Meloni’s government called the strikes a “dangerous trend outside international law.” And then she flew to the Gulf to negotiate the supply of the molecule that cannot flow because the strait she will not help open remains closed. The Bank of Italy lowered GDP growth forecasts for 2026 and 2027, citing the war. Italy breached the EU’s deficit ceiling last year. Italian families are paying for a war Italy refused to join, in fuel prices set by a strait Italy will not help reopen, for gas produced by allies Italy supports diplomatically but not militarily. Meloni told RAI: “I continue to believe that, geopolitically, Europe has little to gain from a divergence with the United States, but our duty is, first and foremost, to defend our national interests, and when we disagree, we must say so.” That sentence was delivered from the Gulf, to Italian cameras, about an American war, by the leader Trump once called “fantastic” and treated as his closest European ally. The friendship is not over. But the sentence “this time, we do not agree” is the most significant public break between a European leader and the American president since the war began. It came not from Macron, who blocked the UN resolution. Not from Starmer, who is hosting the Hormuz summit from London. It came from Meloni, the one Trump expected to stand with him. The day before Meloni arrived in Doha, eight Iranians were killed when the B1 bridge between Tehran and Karaj was struck. They had gathered underneath the unfinished structure to celebrate Sizdah Bedar, the Iranian holiday known as Nature Day. They were picnicking. The bridge collapsed on them. Over 3,000 people have died across the Middle East since February 28. The strait is closed. The gas is trapped. The ally who was supposed to help is negotiating contracts instead. And the leader who promised all Hell is posting countdowns while his closest European friend tells the camera, on the record, in the Gulf, that she disagrees. The alliance did not fracture over ideology. It fractured over a molecule that cannot pass through a 34-kilometre strait. Meloni needs the gas. She will not fight for the strait. And the distance between those two positions is the distance between a partnership and a transaction. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…



























