The blitz is contained in a statement without appeal: "immediate effect". Without warning, as if the war were at the doorstep, inside the coves already crowded with the willing of the Sardinian sun, ready to inaugurate without wasting too much time an imminent summer season. You know, we are in Sardinia, in the heart of the Mediterranean, an island of tourism, especially that of the sea. Yet for a few hours on the coasts of this land, which ended up due to geological flips in the middle of the ancient Mare Nostrum, we have been preparing for war, or rather for "war games", the most violent and invasive ones.

War exhibition

We are at the dress rehearsal, at the less edifying display of the powers of fire, of the latest generation of weapons, as if this was the time to show muscles and provoke the follies of others, as if those already in place were not enough. Sardinia today more than ever a colony and military center of gravity of Italy and NATO. A target internationally pointed to as a theater of war with the most invasive war troops who have chosen the island to simulate the most nefarious scenarios, and practice to fight them. The question, however, arises spontaneously: why deploy dozens and dozens of warships in front of the Poetto and not in front of the Venice Lagoon? Why in front of the remains of Nora rather than those of Pompeii? Why is it facing the dunes of Porto Pino instead of the beaches of the Romagna Riviera? So, however, it is decided, from above, by the Ministry of Defense and the military leaders who have always mistaken Sardinia as the scene of simulated wars, as if this were a no man's land. The General Staff, that of the most disparate weapons, communicated on 5 May last, through the coordination center of "Marina Nord" in La Spezia, that Sardinia must be "immediately" placed under siege. Without delay. With an "urgent" order in addition to the one we have reported in recent weeks, the new operation is triggered. The latest provision, the one just published on the unknown site of the Port Authority of Cagliari, wastes no time and orders with "immediate effect" the establishment and simultaneous interdiction, with absolute prohibition for any possible activity, of as many as 17 areas at sea for military exercises, many of which, indeed, most, right outside the same prohibited areas all year round, those of the three polygons of Quirra-San Lorenzo, Capo Frasca and Teulada. Ordinance 76 of the Command of the Harbor Master's Office is signed by the man of the Ministry of Defense, Captain Mario Valente, who oversees the Sardinian sea. Three pages full of dozens of geographical coordinates as never before to identify 16 sea areas to be prohibited from any kind of activity, to which we must add that of the Oristano Harbor Office which, similarly, has banned the sea area in front of Capo Frasca. The 7,200 hectares of the Teulada polygon, the 12,700 of Perdasdefogu and the 1,200 of Capo Frasca were not enough, this morning the most impressive military exercise ever fielded in the Sardinian sea and in the Sardinian polygons will also extend into areas that have never had anything to do with military servitude. And it won't be a walk in the park.

From Nora to Poetto

From today, in fact, those areas totally outside the polygons and from the areas usually occupied by exercises enter full military activities. The map that we publish identifies them indicatively with respect to the coordinates published in the ordinance. The war occupation starts from the waters of Sant'Antioco, with the Alfa area, then moving to the Brava area right in front of the bathing establishments, already in operation, of Porto Pino, then entering, with five further areas in the area in front the forbidden peninsula of Capo Teulada. Here the coordinates of Area Bravo, Charlie, Zafferano, Delta and Teulada unfold. The invasion of military ships then moves towards the Forte Village, passing through Nora. The off-limits areas Echo and Foxtrot intersect between Chia and Sarroch. Skipping the Port of Cagliari you get straight to Poetto. Right in front of the Cagliari beach they have placed the Golf area.

Beaches and warships

Between Villasimius and Muravera, other places in preparation for the summer season, the prohibitions concern the "military" areas at the sea, Hotels and India, practically in front of the golden beaches of Cala Pira and Capo Ferrato. Always climbing on the east coast, the ordinance embraces the expanses of sand that go from Capo San Lorenzo to the beach of Murtas. In that case they were not original in the denominations, relying on the traditional PISQ, from one to four. At Capo Frasca they dust off the ban on the entire Nuova Tango area. Half Sardinia, therefore, surrounded by peremptory provisions, without appeal: "It is necessary to integrate the sea areas subject to prohibition, partly listed in the aforementioned Ordinance, affected by the exercise for reasons of navigation safety and safeguarding human life in sea as well as to protect public safety ". As if to say, stay away, danger of death. The prohibition is articulated and leaves no way out, in all those areas identified in the map that we publish the prohibitions are detailed: "In the sea areas identified by the respective points, on the days and times indicated below for each area, the transit, stopping, navigation, anchoring of all types of naval vessels, including pleasure boats, as well as diving, bathing, fishing and related professions ». Bans, therefore, taken with immediate effect, with the broader ones that will come into force between today and tomorrow. After all, there is room for a real war at sea and beyond, with the deployment of 65 warships, distributed throughout this Sardinian chessboard with some distributed in the Tyrrhenian, Adriatic and Sicilian channels. . The concentration, however, will be all on the Sardinian coasts with an interdiction that concerns both the space at sea and consequently the air space, because ships with missiles and bombs on board and fighter-bombers will not play naval battle on paper. The deployment will be impressive: over 4,000 men from 7 NATO nations aboard over 65 ships, submarines, airplanes and helicopters, around the Sardinian chessboard. The words that flow in the defense cables use the war emphasis: "The exercises will take place by developing activities that will also affect the surrounding maritime territories thanks to the ground projection capabilities expressed by the amphibious component on board".

Normandy & Poetto

To translate it into an understandable language, it means that from those ships there will be landings with amphibious means, as if the defense scenarios envisaged, as a hypothesis, a landing on the Black Sea coasts. 'Azov deserves compensation for damage to the image of the island of Sardinia. All scenarios from the Normandy landings that appear to be the result of a military exhibitionism of other times that does not reconcile with the environmental disasters in the military polygons of the island. But that's not all: the Cavour aircraft carrier is also positioned off the coast of Sardinia, just tested to use the new F35s, ready to be tested on Sardinian soil in symbiosis with Eurofighter fighters. Everything, therefore, is ready for the great war parade. The Nuraghi Island is surrounded as never before. More and more target and state military colony.

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