In the Italian parliament last week a spolesman for the Five Star Movement, a populist party, introduced a motion to end military aid to Ukraine. PM Georgia Meloni answered like this.
At one point, in reference to the position of the Five Star Movement, on the topic of Ukraine, he says, "Look, it's better to live under a dictatorship than to die."
And so the mask comes off.
We have in these words a massacre of centuries of history in which freedom, democracy and all the values of our civilization were built with the sacrifice of those who were ready die for them. We have a massacre of the choices made by Paolo Borsellino, Giovanni Falcone and all those who fought against the Mafia.
I don't think it is better to live under a dictatorship than to die. I think we must work so that people can live free. That is the difference between what we are doing and what you propose.
Magnificent.
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Maybe people agree with her policies, maybe they don't. Either way Meloni is a master of the speech. It's not enough to read what she says, which can be stunning in itself. You need to listen to her, to watch her as she says it.
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