Silvio Berlusconi 's words at Porta a Porta have become a coincidence. The Forza Italia leader, who spoke last night in Bruno Vespa's living room, spoke of the war in Ukraine justifying the behavior of the Russian president.
“ Putin has fallen into a difficult and dramatic situation . I say that he fell because it was a mission of the two pro-Russian republics of Donbass that went to Moscow and spoke to everyone, with newspapers, TV and party ministers, ”he said.
The Russian president therefore found himself under pressure because “they went to him in a delegation saying that Zelensky has increased the attacks of his forces against the pro-Russians. ' We have reached 16 thousand dead, defend us because if you don't, we don't know where we will go', they told him, so Putin was pushed by the Russian population, his party and his ministers to invent this special operation ".
That did not go as planned, the Cav continued: “The troops had to enter, reach Kiev in a week, replace Zelensky's government with a government of decent people and turn back in a week . Instead they found unexpected resistance also because Kiev was then foraged with weapons of all kinds by the West ”.
THE REACTIONS
Statements that have raised a crawl space, in Italy and abroad. “Scandalous and very serious words, I ask myself and I ask Meloni if he shares them and if the Italians can share them”, attacks Enrico Letta . Words according to the dem secretary "that please Putin" and are also "rambling, because Berlusconi himself voted for aid".
Very tough Carlo Calenda : “Berlusconi took us out of any kind of European and Euro-Atlantic alliance, he spoke like a general of Putin ”. Luigi Di Maio also attacked: "Giorgia Meloni is in fact commissioned by Salvini and Berlusconi in foreign policy". "I did well to leave the party", is the lapidary comment of Mara Carfagna .
Matteo Salvini is also embarrassed: “Berlusconi says that Putin was pushed to invade Ukraine and wanted to put decent people in Kiev? Do not let me interpret , I say that we will do everything to stop the war when we are in government. Before, everyone's opinion on Putin was positive, but now there are no justifications for those who invade ”.
The EU Commission limits itself to a " no comment " from the spokesman of Ursula Von der Leyen, while the EU spokesperson for foreign affairs, Peter Stano, nods with a smile.
THE CAV ADJUSTS THE SHOT
A wave of criticism that in the morning pushes Berlusconi himself to back down: "It was enough to see the whole interview and not just a sentence extrapolated and concise for reasons of time to understand my thoughts, which have been known for some time . I reported what some people say without any adhesion of my thoughts to that story. The aggression against Ukraine is unjustifiable and unacceptable , the position of Forza Italia clear and clear: we will never be able in any way or for any reason to break our participation in the European Union and in the Atlantic Alliance ”.
(Unioneonline / L)