Rome, Dec. 30 (LaPresse) – There was no “long negotiation” on the decree-law for aid to Ukraine, according to Defense Minister Guido Crosetto. “There was only one in the media,” he said in an interview with Il Messaggero. “In reality,” he explained, “we had reached an agreement in less than 10 minutes, already weeks ago. It doesn’t seem to me that much has changed except that, rightly, non-military aid and the importance of Ukraine’s air defense have been emphasized. After all, every aid we have given, over all these years, and will give, was intended for a nation under attack trying to resist, not for a nation seeking clashes or wars. No one wants this madness to end more than Ukraine does.”
Speaking about Russian President Putin, Crosetto compared him to “the wolf from Aesop’s fable, retold by Phaedrus: if one excuse is not enough, he invents another just to justify his absurd violence and a war that has no reason to exist and that he provoked. But what strikes me,” he added, “are not Putin and his associates, but the Italians who cheer for him because Russia is stronger and he is charismatic. Justifying injustice, violence, and war, either out of sympathy or the logic of the stronger, is a cowardly and weak attitude, masquerading as expertise.”