(by Andrea Pinto) Better late than never. Even if the bad moods in the building of Via XX Settembre are sky-high, according to what Valerio Valentini writes about Il Foglio. The premier, Giuseppe Conte, “summoned a crisis cabinet on Libya to Palazzo Chigi in order to inform all the competent ministries on the evolution of the situation in the Libyan country. President Conte stressed that the crisis cabinet will be active until the Libyan crisis is over. The structure will be available to all the ministries involved in order to allow coordinated management of the dossier. Today President Conte ”, the sources conclude,“ also had a telephone conversation on the subject with the German Chancellor Angela Merkel ”.
However, there is growing malaise among the leaders of the defense department. He always writes the Sheet. Unresolved disagreements, differences left to grow gangrenous, up to the explosion of the guerrilla warfare between the various Armed Forces on apparently marginal issues. On the last one, at Palazzo Chigi they are considering even asking for mediation from the Quirinale, to unblock a grotesque scuffle between the Navy and the Air Force. The one and the other, after all, and each with its good dose of reasons, claim the assignment of the new F-35B, the latest generation of vertical take-off. La Trenta avoided intervening for a long time, only to openly take the side of the Navy and even wrote a warning letter to General Enzo Vecciarelli, Chief of Defense Staff. Even the head of the General Air Force Alberto Rosso, writes il Foglio, would have engaged in a new battle with the Trenta. Because of the P.1HH, the drones made by Piaggio Aerospace that the government wanted to buy also to donate oxygen to a company on the verge of bankruptcy and which, however, on the top floors of the air force they consider very poor. “Eight pieces of iron”: Rosso had liquidated them in this way before the Defense Committee of the House last 12 March. The same occasion in which Rosso also mentioned another problem: the replacement of the "Spada" missile system, which in 2021-2022 will become obsolete and for which, despite the many requests, the government has not yet made explicit "any financial indication ”On how to replace it.
The number two of the Defense, the under-secretary of the Northern League, was also blown out. Raffaele Volpi who said: “Less China and more industry”. Undersecretary Volpi had to say when he heard that the government now wants to ask the US for help with the Libya dossier: "For heaven's sake, we are welcome to turn to Washington, too bad we make this request after ignoring certain American warnings on the road. of Silk. We are sure that behind Xi's eagerness to sign the memorandum is not Beijing's interest in strategic sectors of our country, and am I not referring only to 5G and Huawei? ". Moreover, already on Thursday, in a Roman conference organized by EY, in the presence of the top leaders of the Defense Volpi he had addressed with unusual frankness to the "lady minister" who was sitting in the front row of the audience, to affirm "the need to reaffirm Italy's Euro-Atlantic anchoring", criticizing in a not too veiled way the recent Chinese ammine of Conte and Di Maio: "I don't think the French have signed documents of understanding with Beijing, but they have sold him 300 Airbuses anyway".
Another question for which there is not a little embarrassment is the question of military unions that the Minister Trenta authorized with ministerial decrees of assent, before there was a law of the State that regulated them. The law "Corda", from the name of its rapporteur, is still being examined by the defense commissions. The first draft is very disappointing, according to the experts. In fact, we want to legislate in a "restrictive" sense and not grant any union power, or sterilize a unique opportunity for the staff with the stars. The various trade unions yesterday wrote in a joint statement that they are ready to demonstrate in the square in front of the institutional offices, because a constitutional right cannot be trampled on, with a watered down law. Disappointment is therefore recorded by the military unions on the role of the Minister Trenta who, to date appears to have only deluded, those who really believed in the epochal change.