We should do this and call for the Riot Act.
Shortly before 200 AD the Roman emperor Septimius Severus pulled all the troops out of the border forts along the Danube and Rhine and shipped them off to fight a war against the Parthians in Iraq. Over the next several centuries the Roman Empire and the Italian Peninsula were the object of numerous barbarian invasions.
It looks like this time Italy plans to be a little more proactive.
For his part, Septimius is remembered as having been a great emperor on defense issues but weak on immigration - and of course a lousy father.
Italy has figured out who it is and what it doesn’t want to be. A little late, but it would make Ariana Fallaci very happy to know that Italy is finally defending itself.
Where are the American politicians with the same attitude?