Posted on 10/19/2022 1:32:21 PM PDT by ETCM
Italy's presumed next premier, Giorgia Meloni, issued a stark warning to Silvio Berlusconi on Wednesday that he risked losing influence in any new government over his friendship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, as she asserted a strong pro-NATO, pro-European position about Russia's war in Ukraine.
“Italy, with its head high, is part of Europe and the (NATO) Atlantic alliance,” she said. “Whoever doesn't agree with this cornerstone cannot be part of the government, at the cost of not having a government.”
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HAHA is this the same NATO who has been carried by Uncle Sam on his shoulder? President Trump educated us on how little European countries were contributing to NATO compared to United States.
Apparently so. Wish her well.
She and Berlusconi are not playing well together at all. He’s annoyed with the young upstart.
Well it was a nice two weeks. The retard was accused of being a fascist, and she immediately sides with Ukrainian nationalism and Galician Nazism and the fascist EU. Lol
Berlusconi is an old corrupt pervert. Meloni is the senior partner here.
Actually, she supports a "Common European Army" that operates both in parallel and independently with NATO and the USA, so that they can act in the interest of Europe, not the USA.
Never go Full Kamala for Klaus.
A lot of her platform will never survive the scrutiny and demands of the Euroweenie elite. And she is all in with them. She will sink quicker than Truss. Her base are suspicious of the EU super state.
There’s plenty of instability in Europe to go around right now.
Let Italy have its share.
I think most European leaders are still in the dark (forgive the pun) about the current situation in Ukraine.
💥💡Russian Armed Forces strikes on Ukraine’s energy system 19 October 2022💡💥
🔻Confirmed strikes:
▪️Burshtyn TPP - autotransformers hit. Located in Ivano-Frankivsk, the TPP supplies power to western Ukraine as well as Transcarpathia and Precarpathia. Depending on the severity of the damage, the entire southwest of the country could face significant power shortages.
▪️Ladyzhinskaya TPP - the facility was hit by three missiles, the exact extent of the damage is unknown. Together with the cascade on the Dnieper, the TPP feeds the entire south-west of the country, and a complete failure of the facility would increase the load on the grid and lead to power shortages in the region.
🔻About the power cuts
Ukrainian authorities have announced a rolling blackout across all regions for October 20, which will last from 7:00 am to 11:00 pm. People have been urged to cut electricity consumption as much as possible. Street lighting will also be limited.
According to the deputy head of the presidential office, Kirill Timoshenko, if the power consumption is not reduced, it will be necessary to switch to temporary blackouts. First of all, businesses should reduce electricity consumption.
The Ukrainian energy system is experiencing a shortage of both generating and transmitting capacities. Autotransformers at substations and thermal power plants have been hit. And hydropower plants appear to have been switched to maximum electricity generation, but there is nothing to compensate for morning and evening consumption peaks.
🔻The extent of damage to the energy system cannot yet be confirmed at 30-40%, as Kiev claims. However, the damage has already been quite severe, although not enough to cause a complete collapse.
The 750kV and 330kV switchgear of the remaining three NPPs could cause critical damage to the energy system fairly quickly. But they would also have a strong political cost.
Continued strikes on substations and thermal power plants would achieve the same effect. However, they would require more time and more missiles.💥
It seems pretty clear to me now that Ukrainians are soon going to be forced to become refuges in Europe. People won’t stay where there is no power, water, heat. Hope she welcomes them.
Rainstorms over the Kherson region start in about 6 hours...
Yes indeed!
She's been against Putin's invasion and Ukraines right to defend itself all along.
It’s a very turgid situation.
Very interesting site I just subscribed to says she’s the new fascist Mussolini.
The Trumpet presents news with a biblical perspective. Learned about it quite by accident from a young fellow laying floors in my apartment. Brilliant kid.
“Just because she is Nationalist doesn’t mean she is anti-Europe or anti-NATO.”
Imagine being silly enough to think being a nationalist means you have to support Russia’s violations of national sovereignty.
“The Trumpet presents news with a biblical perspective.”
Beware. That’s the website of the newspaper that used to be called the “Philadelphia Trumpet”, run by the “Philadelphia Church of God”, aka “the Philadelphians”. They have quite a few doctrines they keep that are well outside the mainstream of Christian thinking, such as not believing in the trinity, believing that British people are the “real Israel” rather than Jews, and Christians must keep the Jewish sabbath and Jewish feast days.
There are folks actively pushing Putin as the savior of the world. Anyone who speaks ill of him is instantly an enemy.
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