In tourist brochures they will write false. That Sardinia is forbidden, forbidden to Sardinians and beyond. Denied to civilians and tourists, complete with ordinances and barbed wire. Unapproachable. Indeed, in the "yellow-tourist" signs there is also written: forbidden to approach, armed vigilance. In other words: stay away or we'll disappear. Not bad as a welcome. That piece of Sardinia, painted by white dunes and turquoise waters, is dotted with signs even on the beaches. Even in that case the invitation is peremptory: forbidden to approach, unexploded bombs. In practice, if you put a foot on the shore, you jump in the air. In short, you don't need a good anti-militarist manual to understand the impact of that NATO polygon in the last strip of Sardinian land towards Africa. Up until a few weeks ago, armies from all over the world "played" at war in those land furrows sculpted by bombs and missiles, tracked vehicles and military bulldozers, from the Norwegians to the Germans, passing through the Americans and Belgians. The Germans, in the guise of arms dealers, also brought a patrol of Leopards, the most powerful of the tanks.

Weapons and green fair

Here, in the Teulada shooting range, they ran like madmen, chased only by thorium powder and the eagerness to show the efficiency of those "jewels" of military devastation. After all, the gentlemen of Rheinmetall , the owners of Domusnovas' Rwm, let him sail the seas of northern Europe in the hope of convincing the cashiers of the Italian Army to drop a few billion, at least three, to buy a patrol boat to roam around during the he year among the mastic trees and the myrtle of Teulada. The chronicles of the stars have distributed eloquent images of bombings in the middle of the coast, with simulated conflicts between one bank and the other of Capo Teulada. They didn't spare themselves even on the last day of the Noble Jump 2023 exercise, the noble jump. Dozens of journalists from all over Europe who have come here to document, held by the hand like a school class, the wonders of those means of warfare. No one explained to him that those weren't war exercises, but much more simply a real arms fair. Everyone knows it, but few say it: inside Teulada there are no exercises, but bombs and missiles are consumed with the ultimate, or perhaps primary, aim of subsidizing the war industry, Italian and beyond.

Polygon for the “scion”

Now, to make everything even more surreal, the media circus of one of the most powerful "offspring" of the Spanish dynasty, Alejandro Agag, known to all as the son-in-law of the former Spanish premier Josè Maria Aznar, bursts onto the proscenium of Teulada. in defiance of any trial for environmental disaster, complete with radioactive pollution, it had in "concession" none other than the joint Teulada base.You wouldn't believe it: the shooting range described by the Generals as inviolable and untouchable, the one defined by the Ministry of Defense strategic and prompt intervention, it is now “rented” to the “caballero de Spagna". In these days, in Teulada, as if by magic, the tanks have disappeared, the pollution has liquefied, even the unexploded bombs with which they keep bathers away they have become daisies stuck in the ground. The military tents have disappeared to make way for those of the "Formula Elettrica" circus, that of the "mighty" Agag. It is he who miraculously obtained the go-ahead from the Ministry of Defence, to bring those electric SUVs, the green offshoot of Formula One, to roam around there.

Tourist joke

With unusual imagination there are those who have gone so far as to talk about a great spot for Sardinia. In these cases there is no limit to irony, transforming, however, a dramatically serious issue into a joke. In that area, in fact, the technicians of the Cagliari prosecutor's office found an environmental disaster, with areas inside the shooting range hit by missiles with radioactive tracers, in this case thorium, a substance far more dangerous than depleted uranium itself. All the judges are convinced of this and in the preliminary phase they then decided to send all the military leaders to trial, from the Chiefs of Defense Staff to those of the Army. The Minister and the graduates of the imminent trial at the Court of Cagliari don't care much, on the contrary, they openly challenge the Judges with lots of acrobatic games on four wheels, in the same areas that ended up on trial for an "unnamed" disaster. A sense of impunity claimed not only in the golden halls of official circles, but also with a display of arrogance through mocking "green" demonstrations inside the most polluted shooting range. Of this authorization issued to the "car circus" nobody knows anything. Everyone ignores which state office has written a piece of paper for the companies of the most powerful "son-in-law" in Spain.

Ecogeneral

Some Generals, at the press conference, only let themselves go with a secular-ecological comment: "The Army is on the front line and is together with those who work to promote initiatives aimed at improving the environment in which we live". It's a pity that a few weeks ago, the Generali themselves were bombing that area which for Europe is a site of Community interest, burdened by maximum environmental protection. The drone images of Agag's organization will show the turquoise waters of Cala Zafferano and Porto Scudo, but no one will tell him that even yesterday morning there were the "urban policemen" of the sea, those of the state, who fined the boats moored on that stretch of sea. Fined because they stopped in a stretch of water banned for "unexploded bombs". No one will tell the "consumers" of those images that those "road" layouts framed from above are not rocky access routes for sheepfolds, but the terrestrial disembowelment of crawlers and leopards that right there, a few weeks ago, were performing in gymkhanas and pursuits for the warmongering "pleasure" of the generals.

Green on the disaster

On July 8th and 9th in Teulada the military-environmental fair is held, that of the «Formula Elettrica - Island X Prix». Of course, only the "lucky" will enter the shooting range, the friends of those who donate an entrance ticket, obviously free. In fact, there is no possibility for "common" mortals to access the competition area, not even for a fee. Elite stuff, as you can imagine. Sardinia, moreover, is promoted in forbidden, bombed and polluted areas, where no one can enter, except for winks and graded friendships.

Without a trace

Last annotation for the words of Alejandro Agag, Aznar's son-in-law, who has become the Bernie Ecclestone of electric cars. He, who is an authentic offshoot of political power, knows where to knock and with what grace. Everyone knows that he boasts an agenda of 20,000 telephone numbers, which does not disdain high-ranking friendships, starting with the Italian ones. And after all, only a circle of powerful people can hide behind the "concession" of a NATO military polygon to a popularizer of electric "machines". He, Agag, in a very recent statement had the audacity to affirm: «We call our race Extreme E: the race that leaves no trace. When we leave, you don't notice that we have passed. We have a scientific committee - with some of the best scientists in the world, dealing with environmental issues, who come from Oxford and Cambridge - who first take a look at the situation on the spot and obviously check that no damage has been done. And that's how we'll ensure we race without a trace in those venues." Too bad, however, that for him, the dirty work, that of bombing, radioactive pollution and more, has been done by others, starting with those Generals on trial for environmental disaster, consumed in the same polygon where "green" runs . Military propaganda is now "electric".

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