Why rearming Italy
Before suggesting how to channel military spending increased to 2% of GDP, it is essential to expose what are the threats challenging Italy and what strategic-military guidelines should drive military spending.
Before suggesting how to channel military spending increased to 2% of GDP, it is essential to expose what are the threats challenging Italy and what strategic-military guidelines should drive military spending.
In Italy we continue to rely on government subsidies that try to defibrillate dying bodies. The plethora of bonuses is endless. But if we must bet a chip it would be good to place it on the job.
The crisis in Ukraine is far from over; rather, we can say that it is heading towards the conclusion of a round. Let us therefore try to draw some lessons from this red-hot round. In a nutshell, the question is only one: who won and who lost?
The Italian economy, after the dramatic fall in GDP in 2020 at the height of the pandemic crisis and the significant, but still partial, recovery in 2021, is going through a very delicate phase, in which GDP growth is losing momentum and is falling short of the forecasts made by the Government and leading analysts.
An economy on the verge of collapse, cultural backwardness, demographic decline, unemployment and poverty on the rise, the picture is certainly already familiar to many readers and dramatic for Italy. The projections presented by PwC, Istat, Caritas and the University of Bergamo confirm this once again.
Per lo Stato italiano, lo spazio prevalente è il mare. Eppure abbiamo una Marina cenerentola tra le Forze Armate, sia in termini di personale sia di spesa.
Nuovi documenti, recentissimamente pubblicati dal "Riformista", sull’attentato del 9 ottobre 1982 alla Grande Sinagoga di Roma, stanno creando serio imbarazzo istituzionale.
Il rapporto trimestrale di Frontex fotografa un aumento generalizzato di flussi illegali verso l'Europa. 13 Paesi sui 27 dell'UE hanno chiesto all'Unione di finanziare la costruzione di muri. L'Italia non è tra questi e sta diventando il ventre molle.
Interlocutore, reale e ideale al tempo stesso, di Niccolò Machiavelli è l’altro grande esponente della storiografia repubblicana cinquecentesca, cresciuto all’ombra della Repubblica fiorentina: Francesco Guicciardini. Costretto ad assistere, nel 1527, al crollo di quello che restava della libertà italiana.