A-Infos (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova: Geopolitics of Rubble (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Every war needs a noble word to precede it. This time, the chosen word 
is "liberation." The attack by the United States and Israel against Iran 
is being packaged as a moral, almost therapeutic act: strike to save, 
bomb to emancipate. It's a tried-and-tested formula, and every time the 
result is the same: instability, radicalization, new fractures 
compounding old ones. Peace does not arise from military escalation, 
just as democracy is not imposed with drones, nor can freedom be dropped 
from above along with bombs or sowing death. Changing the name of a war 
doesn't make it less of a war, and rubble doesn't establish republics.

Those who speak of "liberation" today should measure the weight of their 
words by what is happening in Gaza. The Prosecutor of the International 
Criminal Court has requested an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu on 
charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. A case is pending 
before the International Court of Justice concerning the State of 
Israel's responsibility under the Genocide Convention. This isn't a 
legal detail: it's the political context within which the word 
"liberation" resonates.

Even in the United States, the moral compass appears fragile. Donald 
Trump has been at the center of legal proceedings, institutional 
disputes, and deep tensions with the opposition and the press. His 
immigration policies and use of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement 
(ICE) have been denounced by broad sectors of civil society as tools of 
intimidation and repression of dissent. And in the background, reports 
and legal cases that have touched off US power circles (and its 
international economic and political entanglement) remain a reminder of 
the riskiness of wielding moral superiority as a geopolitical weapon.

But the issue isn't just moral: it's material.

Attacking Iran means setting fire to a region that represents a 
strategic hub for trade between East and West, for energy, and for 
global balances. To think that an escalation of this magnitude can 
remain confined to a single country or be limited to the Middle East is 
a dangerous illusion. Nothing can stop the economic and political 
shockwaves at the borders.

And while rights and freedoms are evoked, military infrastructure and 
assets are mobilized. Even from our own territory.

In Sicily, the MUOS (Inter-National Security Operations Unit) in Niscemi 
and the Naval Air Station Sigonella are central nodes of the US military 
communications and projection network in the Mediterranean and beyond. 
If these facilities are used to support operations against Iran, Italy 
is not a neutral observer: it is part of the operational chain.

The government led by Giorgia Meloni, with Matteo Salvini and Antonio 
Tajani, continues to talk about national sovereignty while allowing the 
territory to become a logistical platform for strategies decided 
elsewhere. The sovereignty evoked in rallies dissolves when radars are 
turned on, jet and drone engines roar, and bases are activated to 
facilitate bombing.

As the No MUOS movement, we affirm that war is not a tool for 
emancipation, that Gaza cannot be removed from public discourse while 
freedom is discussed elsewhere, and that Italian territory cannot be 
transformed into a permanent backwater for conflicts that risk spreading 
far beyond the region.

We reject the vision that the Mediterranean is a launching pad for war.

Sicily is not a military platform.

And peace is not a word to be used before pressing a button that 
mobilizes armies and kills civilians.

No MUOS Movement

https://umanitanova.org/geopolitica-delle-macerie/
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