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Sottoscrivo quanto dice @bordoni_russia con una nota: conosco poco la Russia direttamente, ma ho conosciuto la cultura russa attraverso lunghi soggiorni in Lettonia, in Ucraina, e poi in Moldavia. Oggi queste terre di mezzo sono il baratro che ci separa.
Ho sempre sostenuto che la contesa per l'Europa Centro Orientale fosse futile, perché quest'area non lotta per agganciarsi all'uno o all'altro carro, ma per essere attore protagonista. L'attuale entusiasmo per UE e NATO è solo strumentale a sganciarsi dal vicino più forte...
...e profittare dei fondi UE. Occorre non farsi illusioni che le parti in commedia (rectius: tragedia) non sono due ma tre. E che questa vicenda, lungi dal portarci a un Occidente più forte, indebolisce tutta la costruzione europea come l'abbiamo conosciuta.
Al protagonismo dell'Europa Centro Orientale si aggiunge quello dei paesi baltici. Ci siamo appena accollati la difesa di un paese, la #Finlandia con nostalgie revansciste, che ha virato verso l'estrema destra, il populismo e il sovranismo, foreignpolicy.com/author/john-la…
Tutto ciò va contro i nostri interessi nazionali, che sono nel Mediterraneo, contro l'idea di Europa fondata sulla pace e sul commercio, sulla libera circolazione delle persone, sulla progressiva costruzione di una identità europea dei popoli. Invece risorge l'etnonazionalismo.
Comunque vada in #Ucraina ne usciamo tutti con le ossa rotte.

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Apr 4
All'appello al realismo di @bordoni_russia ​ con cui concordo, rispondo ricordando che il baratro che separa l'Occidente dalla Russia non è una linea, come molti credono, ma un'ampia area che dal Baltico scende attraverso l'Europa Centro Orientale.
Questa Europa di Mezzo è anti-russa, ma non è e non sarà meno anti-occidentale. Ci siamo illusi che potesse essere una estensione della "nostra" Europa, ma è la protagonista, non una comprimaria; che fosse una zona cuscinetto, comprimibile a piacere.
E invece il suo spazio e la sua importanza crescono a dismisura. La burocrazia di Bruxelles poteva illudersi di mettere la Polonia in castigo, Biden può non invitare l'Ungheria al summit delle democrazie, ma questa Europa è protagonista, oggi, e se ne infischia.
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Apr 2
La Finlandia vira a destra, verso populisti, nazionalisti, sovranisti. Persi nei begli occhi azzurri di #SannaMarin tanti non hanno visto che nel Baltico si sta giocando una partita che stravolge l’idea stessa di Europa come l’abbiamo conosciuta. foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/30/fin…
Finland Is Less Progressive Than It Seems

A debate over Indigenous issues has empowered the country’s nativist right ahead of a critical election. To the rest of the world, Finland is often held up as a beacon of progressivism.
Various international indices have ranked it among the world’s most stable, best governed, least corrupt, and most socially progressive countries on earth.
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Mar 25
@broderly Do you think anything of this stuff really matters in the life of ordinary Italians? I frankly consider Italian education and politics too mired into history and archeology. The past, either glorious or infamous, is past. We need forward-looking projects.
@broderly What you fail to understand is, Meloni is not Mussolini’s grandchildren. Rather, she’s the result of the ‘90s meltdown of all democratic traditions of the Republic: Communists, Christian Democrats, Socialists: gone to open the door to populists like Berlusconi and Grillo.
@broderly So paradoxically her party and Salvini’s League are the only link left with the postwar republic party system. Something many are missing. You may not like her, but she’s the first PM with a coalition and a program to come to power after an election in a decade.
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Mar 24
Summit for Democracy 2021: Invited Participants - United States Department of State state.gov/participant-li…
2023: 2nd Summit for democracy. Appalled to learn that Turkey, a NATO ally, and Hungary, a NATO and EU partner are not at all democracies, while DR Congo is. The list of participants is telling of a flawed world vision.
Ne avevo scritto qui: Democrazia, luci e ombre del summit di Biden. Scrive Quintavalle - @formichenews
formiche.net/2021/12/democr…
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Mar 24
@AlviseArmellini @gavinjones10 @mauipippa The article is convincing only up to certain point. The first myth to debunk should be - there is no such thing as an 'Italian' food, but many regional traditions, predating much before WWII. Of course, poor people's diet was less varied and nutritive than wealthy tables.
@AlviseArmellini @gavinjones10 @mauipippa The point that what we call 'Italian' food wasn't widely eaten all through Italy could be made of other distinctive marks such as language. Italian became a truly national language only after television entered households.
@AlviseArmellini @gavinjones10 @mauipippa Italy developed its cooking alongside its industrial development. Italians should be credited to their research that made food palatable and at the same time healthy.
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Mar 23
Biden recently referred to Russia’s war against Ukraine as the only large-scale invasion the world has witnessed in eight decades. “The idea that over 100,000 forces would invade another country—since World War II, nothing like that has happened,” Biden proclaimed in February.
He spoke these words within a month of the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a war that then Senator Biden voted to authorize. foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…
NATO expansion therefore came at the expense of Ukraine—and the United States. By entrenching its dominance of European defense, the United States gave its allies ample reason to outsource their security to Washington.
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