The military parade is over. The warships, those that for twenty days occupied the coasts of Sardinia, from Quirra to Capo Teulada, passing through Poetto and Pula, retreated when the advance of the night had already made the Port of Cagliari deserted. The caravans of amphibious and armored vehicles, coming by land from the Teulada polygon, had crossed the Scafa bridge when the sunset had already settled on the Santa Gilla salt pans. The change of strategy, from the relentless invasion of the last few weeks, bursts into the evening lights when the blue flashing lights accompanying the long columns take the square of Luna Rossa, in the square of Molo Ichnusa. All vehicles end up directly in the courtyard of the Navy, behind that iron and brick fence that has always occupied the largest seafront in Cagliari. All closed inside the state compound, away from prying eyes. We have to wait for the amphibious ships to cross the Molo di Levante late at night to moor for cargo right on the quay that was the most famous Italian “vessel” in the land of sailing and regattas. Loading into flagships has never been so quick.

The silence of the night

We must avoid that the images of war burst again on social networks with the disappointment that becomes indignant in the presence of the daily war radiated over the air. When dawn is already high, the loading operations are completed and the flagships have taken off. For the moment, the prohibitions at sea, with the exception of the seized beaches "in aeternum" of Teulada and Quirra, give way, until the next invasion. In the memory remain the images, the environmental devastation, the occupation without a "why" of infinite water spaces in front of the most exclusive beaches and, above all, that Sardinia transformed as never before into a sensitive target. There are American and Italian aircraft carriers, Spanish ones and German warships, all lined up on the paradisiacal proscenium of the turquoise waters of the Nuraghi Island. And then there are the "four" photographers, those of State, authorized and ready to immortalize the "bloody" scenes of the landing in "Normandy" on the enchanted and segregated beaches of Porto Scudo and Cala Zafferano, to be destroyed as if the "Created" in the land of Sardinia it was illegal. It is no longer even necessary to subtract from the Defense archives those frames of such violence in the presence of the white beaches of the south of the island. Those amphibious assault “poses” are the proven proof of the military script to be exhibited for use and consumption of out-of-time muscular evidence nailed in the annals of history. And, in fact, in Teulada's “military set” there are almost more photographers than men in camouflage.

The "mother" scene

The "mother" scene is immortalized by photographers deployed everywhere so as not to lose even a frame of so much "disfigurement" to the natural beauties protected by provisions of all kinds, from state to community regulations. In the specifications of the "inviolable" dunes that surround the polygon of "Sa Portedda", in the promontory of Teulada towards the sea, it is even forbidden to cross them on foot. In the same compendium, on the other hand, the most impetuous tracked vehicles burst from sea and land, those that plow the countryside as if the war “ploughshare” were to overwhelm the ground to sow bombs and missiles. The frames of this umpteenth "violation" are "queen proofs" which, despite the delicate phases of the "Teulada trial" for environmental disaster, reaffirm the defense strategy of the Ministry of Defense: before the environment, nature, human health, the "right-duty" to exercise, it does not matter if this scares forever these oasis-paradise stolen by force from a defenseless community addicted to the illusion of a vaunted development linked to military servitude. It is enough to read the economic and social indicators to understand that in those areas there is only unemployment, poverty and emigration. To this is added that "dated" vision of Defense represented in these days of exercises Born of ancient and anachronistic "Normandy style" landings and those state photos of the "disguises" that the military in "bush" attitude are forced to. film set more than a war scenario. It remains difficult to think that similar attack configurations with "soft toys" on the head could find application in the "ignoble" modern wars. Last two annotations at the end of the exercise. The Capitaneria of Cagliari has just issued the yet another prohibition order in front of Capo Teulada.

New bombs and bans

The ordinance reads: «The seabed is affected by the presence of presumed war devices. With immediate effect and until the reclamation intervention by specialized bomb disposal personnel, it is forbidden to anchor and stop with any boat, bathe and so on in the stretch of water and in the coastal area within a radius of one thousand meters. On Tuesday, meanwhile, a "confidential" meeting is scheduled for the Ministry of Defense to decide, given the war in Ukraine, whether to ban the Is Arenas Biancas beach during the summer. In the notes of the meeting it says: local reactions difficult to manage.

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