The situation in Libya these days is undergoing an unprecedented escalation where Turkey is already sending war material and militiamen (from Syria) to Tripoli to support the troops of the head of the provisional government, recognized by the UN, Fayez al Serraj. Erdogan is awaiting the parliamentary seal he should have on January 2nd, in an extraordinary meeting of the Turkish legislative council.
In this regard, the declaration of the admiral of division (of the reserve) is very authoritative Nicola De Felice who knows the problem well because of his last assignment, ended in 2018, as territorial and logistic manager of the Navy in Sicily where he dealt directly with the tasks related to the management of the irregular migration flow in Sicily
Thus the admiral commented on the latest events: "The Libyan chaos risks making us catapult foreign fighters of ISIS already fighters in Syria directly to Sicily.
What worries me is the unconscious shuttle of NGO ships between the Libyan coast and Italy, potential ferrymen of terrorist cells. I remember that with Carola Rackete's Sea Watch 3, the three Libyan torturers then arrested. The policy of open ports can only accentuate the phenomenon. At Christmas, the Interior Ministry had already issued an order in which he spoke of "the persistence of the international terrorist threat".
But there is something more to highlight: soon we will have foreign fighters in Libya who in addition to undermining national security with the control of the tap of migratory flows, weapons and drugs, we will have armies of mercenaries who will heavily condition our interests economic by putting their hands on the ENI oil concessions, on the off-shore platforms and on the Greenstream pipeline that connects Libya with Gela, from there on the national network to allow our housewives in Verona to prepare coffee every morning.
What baffles me is not so much what other nations like Turkey or Russia are doing, but what our government is not doing to protect our national interests in Libya. The preservation of a people's freedom is directly proportional to the ability of its government to protect its national interests. Without statesmen capable of defining and implementing a national security strategy, Italy is lost. "