They won't confess it even under torture. Sardinia, however, is surrounded from this morning to dawn. The operative code is armored. The Notam, the aerial map of military operations, is reserved for the command boards of aircraft carriers and the cloche of fighters and airliners. Supersonic jets can circle, shoot and do whatever they want, the others, those with passengers, have to change the air. For them off-limits areas, from today until October 27th.

Notam of prohibitions

The excerpt from the Notam that we publish is the synthesis of the east, west and south coasts of the island. There are the Star off-limits zones h24 on the east side, those Yankee and Ray to the south and the D40s to the west. Areas of war, at sea, in the sky and in the firing ranges of Teulada, Quirra and Capo Frasca. It doesn't take long to understand that these are not the usual, already invasive, military exercises that upset and forbid Sardinia for most of the year. To confirm the extraordinary nature of what is happening on the island, the military leaders took care of it. With an explicit letter, sent to war in Ukraine already exploded, they communicated: all exercises are canceled.

Sardinia on alert

All suspended, except those "oriented to" warfighting "". Or, to understand, those explicitly intended for emergency response in a war conflict linked "to the evolution of the international chessboard". What has been happening for 48 hours on the Cagliari stage is the confirmation that Sardinia is foreclosed. The Port of Cagliari, from the Ichnusa pier passing through the Ponente one, up to the Porto Canale, is proof of an unprecedented mobilization. The map of the location of the aircraft carriers, of the combat ships, American, German and Italian attached to the Cagliari bollards, does not bode well. From this morning the NATO "battleships", with the support of fighters, starting with the brand new F35, could already be positioned in operational order to reach both the Salto di Quirra and Teulada shooting ranges.

Simultaneous nuclear

If the warfighting set-up is overt, it cannot be overshadowed that from this morning, simultaneously with the start of operations in Sardinia, NATO will start nuclear exercises involving the B-52 bombers in northern Europe. The annual "Steadfast Noon" nuclear exercise, with up to 60 aircraft that will take part in training flights over Belgium, the North Sea and Britain to practice the use of nuclear bombs based in Europe, takes on these times quite different given the dramatic evolution of the conflict in Ukraine. The "Sardinian" exercises, therefore, are placed in a scenario that sees Sardinia at the center of an unprecedented military operation between northern and southern Europe. The deployment of air and naval means on the island, moreover, could not go unnoticed.

Flagships in Cagliari

The entire seafront of the capital city is surrounded. There are all the flagships of the Italian Navy, from the amphibious aircraft carrier San Giorgio, moored at the Ichnusa wharf, to the Garibaldi stationed in the west. Only on the front of Via Roma, in the water front of Cagliari, you can see the military grandeur of 5 warships, visible from every observation point precisely because they stand out on all port fronts. A real war scenario with hundreds of men in uniform located all over the sea front. To see the first "foreign" ships you have to go into the dock built on the Giorgino Canal. In reality what used to be a container port has been literally transformed into a port of war, with an array of military ships occupying the entire east dock of what was once the container terminal.

From containers to the Yankees

Those who manage to get there, given the garrison of the entire area, can realize that a real headquarters has been set up with the containers located right in front of the first ship located on the south-east front, coincidentally the one flying flags with stars and Stripes. Impossible to see what happens under the American ship. The men of unknown organization have placed dozens of containers all over the land area in front of the warship to prevent anyone not only from approaching, but also just from being able to see what is happening alongside.

Target island

A scenario of war, with Sardinia catapulted, into total silence, in the role of unfortunate and involuntary target for exercises with a red code, in a "conflict" setting, in addition to garrison an area, that of the Mediterranean with more than a tension. Centralizing air, naval and land arsenals on this island, moreover in this historical context, means projecting it into a scenario of dangerous and uncontrollable international provocations. Never before has the presence of military servants transformed the island into a real military colony. Until next October 27, we shoot, bomb and land with tanks on the most beautiful beaches of the island.

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