(by Emanuela Ricci) It was a discovery of hot water. If the bombs are manufactured then they must be sold. The bombs, weapons repugnant under the ethical profile, are certainly not confetti. We are sorry to know how they are used and that they make deaths among the civilians but the war unfortunately does not distinguish, most of the time, the targets. I'm also sorry to know that to provide the elements and data, to the prestigious American newspaper, was an Italian exponent of M5S. We're really good at hurting ourselves!
Then it would have to be thought as a consequence, why doesn't the M5S representative now start a serious battle to shut down the German Rheinmetall Defense factory in Sardinia? Indeed to close the entire Italian defense industry? Politically it is not convenient because Italian jobs are lost, votes would be lost from the very people of which the M5S basks. It would be correct, for the record, to go all the way and not only with the parliamentary questions that he claims to have presented.
As stated in a statement by the Italian Foreign Ministry, Italy has complied with international standards on arms exports and there is no embargo against Saudi Arabia. The defense industry is Pil, the Italian defense industry is the flagship of the country system and by hundreds of thousands of jobs. You need to be critical of 360 degrees and understand some dynamics of industrial and financial economics. Personally I would prefer a world without war and weapons, unfortunately it is not so.
But now we read the report made by the NYT on a question that is not news at all.
"Bombs made in Sardinia were used by Saudi Arabia in the war in Yemen and caused casualties even among civilians: the complaint comes from the New York Times which publishes a video on the front page with what it defines" the path of the arms trade ”That are bleeding Yemen. The report lasts just over seven minutes: in the first frame we see a bomb exploding and the voice that recalls how "Yemen has been immersed in a violent conflict" for years. And in the next frame, a snapshot taken from above shows an idyllic Sardinian village, surrounded by two beaches. The New York newspaper shows what it calls "evidence" of bombs used not only against Shia Houthi fighters but also against civilians, and specifically mentions a family of six killed by a bomb. “Italy - the NYT recognizes - is not the only country that sends weapons to Saudi Arabia. According to our survey, there was a substantial increase in exports in the sector only in 2017 ". The video shows images of the official visits to Riyadh by British Prime Minister Theresa May and the American President, Donald Trump. And after the images of containers and trucks, the faces of Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni and Defense Minister Roberta Pinotti scroll by. the New York daily stresses that the investigation required months of investigation. On May 22, Trump visited Riyadh and signed agreements for military supplies of 110 billion dollars, in fact… .. !!!