Italy

BY PATRICK COCKBURN Photograph Source: Photo by Don Fontijn Countries in decline are dangerous and unpredictable beasts. They may produce leaders who attempt to reverse the process by some adventurous action that has not been tried before. This usually turns out to be far riskier than they imagined, but they cannot retreat as their own political existence is now at stake. The anti-declinist political syndrome is now at its most lethal in Russia, Britain and Italy – with predictably self-destructive results. By far the most calamitous attempt at national revival was that by Vladimir Putin, when he invaded Ukraine on 24 February, in the fixed belief that his armies would face no resistance. In a more minor key, Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng claimed to be jump-starting a ...

by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio VERSIONE ORIGINALE IN ITALIANO In the end, the line of “Europa +”, the party of Emma Bonino financed by George Soros, which had officially asked for the acquittal of the dangerous paramilitary of the Ukrainian National Guard, won. In latest days, the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation confirmed the acquittal for Vitaly Markiv, accused of the murder of Andy Rocchelli, the Pavia photojournalist killed in Donbass on 24 May 2014, killed in a “mortar shooting” together with the Russian interpreter and photographer Andrei Mironov, while a Frenchman had survived by a miracle. The reporters Andrei Mironov (l) and Andy Rocchelli (r) Markiv, a soldier of the Ukrainian National Guard with an Italian passport, was sentenced in 2019 to 24 ye...