A-Infos (en) Italy, UCADI #211 - MASS DISTRACTION (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

While the Meloni government is on track to become the longest-serving in 
the Republic-which isn't necessarily a virtue, given that stability 
often coincides with stagnation-a mass distraction operation is being 
invented to survive . Indeed, the government is afloat, wages are 
stagnant, indeed in recession, welfare is degrading and falling apart, 
the healthcare system, under-resourced and understaffed, provides ever 
fewer services, the school system is a disaster, understaffed and with 
stale programs, needlessly revitalized through the creation of new but 
foolish courses, employment prospects for young people are nonexistent, 
and their exodus from the country remains constant at more than 500,000 
per year, worsening the demographic crisis. The state is lacking not 
only in development and planning policies, but also in the day-to-day 
management of public service structures, which are governed by 
bureaucratic clientelism, managerial incompetence, and inefficiency, due 
to the parceling out of management positions among a clientelistic 
ruling and bureaucratic class. Through a comprehensive management of 
appointments, over the course of four or nearly five years, the 
government has managed to innovate-far from for the better-this army of 
public power enforcers, while simultaneously degrading its role, 
function, and funding by depriving local authorities of necessary 
resources, thus preventing them from operating at all.
This is evidenced by the comatose management of those still significant 
remnants of public industry, which survived the sell-offs orchestrated 
by the celebrated Mario Draghi, who initiated their planned divestment, 
handing over ownership to private financial capital, invited to share 
the profits. This has resulted in a progressive decline in innovation 
investments, to the point of zero, a decline in planning and expansion 
into new sectors, and a consequent downsizing of the productive and 
industrial apparatus. Globalization and delocalization have done the 
rest, leaving the country a growing desert and transforming it, under 
the illusion that the surviving mass tourism sector was sufficient to 
guarantee the country's future,
transforming it into the holiday oasis of Europe and the world. They 
have failed to realize that even if they want to develop quality 
tourism, investment is needed; otherwise, this sector too will decline 
and fail under the weight of managerial inefficiency.
The manufacturing excellence of our industrial facilities has not been 
defended: a case in point is GSM in Florence, a cutting-edge, highly 
productive company, dismantled by competitors to maximize profits by 
moving production to lower labor costs; and the examples that could be 
cited are endless. Last but not least, the nonexistent energy policy has 
created the conditions for a loss of competitiveness for production 
located in Italy and has encouraged their dismantling and exodus to 
other production areas, where the respective governments have managed to 
guarantee access to much less expensive and certainly competitive energy.
But this government's masterpiece has been its foreign policy, 
maintaining a submissive and obedient attitude, like all European Union 
countries, to US policies, behaving as faithful and servile vassals in 
the service of the empire and still declaring themselves proud 
supporters of the attacked Ukraine, to which this government, like the 
previous one and the opposition, have guaranteed unwavering support, 
regardless of any assessment of opportunity, convenience, historical and 
political reasons, or merit, in relation to an assessment of the 
xenophobic, racist, nationalist regime, enemy of religious freedom and 
freedom of thought, oppressor of ethnic and linguistic minorities, and 
oppressing a multicultural and multilingual country.
This solidarity has manifested itself through a constant financial 
outlay for the supply of weapons systems, a sum that, on a single scale, 
seems paltry-75 euros per capita-until now. Yet, when viewed as a whole, 
it is enormous, considering the state budget's shortcomings in funding 
welfare, and considering the size of the Italian public debt, which has 
continued to grow relentlessly, in the name of a misplaced solidarity 
that has enriched a corrupt ruling and political class, especially the 
Ukrainian one, which has generously and shamelessly benefited from 
bribes on military supplies, thus slaughtering the Ukrainian population.

The responsibilities of the left

If the government's responsibilities are grave, those of the opposition 
are no less serious in its complicity in this operation. In our last 
editorial, we highlighted the expediency considerations that may have 
pushed the opposition leader to reiterate her support for Kiev, seeking 
to gain legitimacy to take over the government and succeed the current 
one, within a framework compatible with the Atlantic Alliance. But we 
believe we understand her reluctance to travel to Kiev, as requested by 
many, wanting to maintain a sense of modesty in the face of the ignominy 
of going to support with her presence a government that advocates a 
narrow-minded, illiberal, xenophobic, and racist nationalism, evoking 
the glories of the neo-Nazi UPA, incompatible with the democratic values 
it claims to defend: a government of thieves and corrupt officials that 
is Ukraine's greatest enemy (see ongoing investigations).
After having destroyed its population, so much so that it is already 
thinking of planning for the future, taking as a reference point a 
population reduced to 38 million, without taking into account the 
further losses it will suffer with the deprivation of a large part of 
its territory and the probable return to the native peoples of the 
acquired areas of Bukovina, Transcarpathia, and Volhynia, what will 
remain of a defeated Ukraine, deprived of its outlet to the sea, if not 
a people of war veterans ready for violence and prone to a xenophobic 
and resentful nationalism?
Very few currently seem to realize the poison brewed in Kiev that is 
deeply infecting the Baltic countries, largely predisposed to harboring 
the virus of racial and ethnic superiority, eager for revenge against 
the Slavic peoples they consider their eternal enemies. True, his 
opposition to the Gaza genocide has restored dignity to the Italian 
left, and today two of its members seem to have grasped this: it's no 
coincidence that Conte is timidly trying to change the position of the 
entire left, aware that the majority of Italians oppose financing the 
war in Ukraine and rearmament and harbor no anti-Russian sentiments, at 
least not those left-wing voters. A mainstream group of journalists, 
political scientists, fanatics, factionalists and liars who, out of 
interest or conviction, have placed themselves at the disposal of the 
European Union, of its ruling class, of Atlanticist political circles, 
and draw on the generous funding that the European Union provides, are 
working to raise doubts on the issue and to support Ukraine. The same 
goes for self-styled research centers, where partisan, particularly 
odious political scientists, cartographers, and war news website 
managers have, not coincidentally, shifted from battlefield commentary 
and reporting to geopolitical considerations. Rather than reporting on 
the battlefield situation, as they did in the past, they avoid doing so. 
If they did so with any degree of objectivity, they would have to report 
on Ukraine's steady and progressive retreat on the battlefield and a 
steady advance of the Russian army, which is conquering the cities of 
Donbas one by one and is preparing to extend its action to the axis that 
starts in the Sumy Oblast and extends to the Dniper, turning towards 
Odessa and Bukovina, and rejoining Transnistria, marking the 
geographical end of Ukraine as we know it today.

A program for a new government

It is well known that the Meloni government, concerned about the 
electorate's tendencies and the right-wing competition facing the 
Brothers of Italy party from Vannacci's party, is attempting, through a 
new electoral law, to pre-emptively rig the deck and create the 
conditions for a technical victory. This attempt will be fully 
implemented in Parliament in September, although the outcome of the 
operation currently appears to be fraught with obstacles. While 
preparations were underway, the government has skillfully implemented a 
mass distraction operation, consisting of hiding the Mastro case and 
hyping and media coverage of the Ranucci case. This has created a soap 
opera that has held Italians' attention, directing it toward trivial 
issues, but above all, distorting it from the real problems they face, 
evidenced by the reduction in vacation time due to lack of financial 
resources, the rising price of fuel that is significantly hindering 
travel, and growing concerns about employment at the end of vacation 
time and incomes. Meanwhile, the government is taking advantage of this 
to suppress or modify Report.
The Italian government has cleverly exploited the snowball effect of the 
planned invasion of Ceuta to wage war against the Sánchez government, 
suspending Schengen, creating the conditions for a much more serious 
clash over migration policies with the Merz government, which is also 
struggling on this issue. This is while NGOs, with their ships left 
alone to patrol the sea, continue their tragic pilgrimage of 
transporting bodies to Italian ports, and the Italian government toyed 
with the unlikely creation of new hotspots in third countries, given 
that with Albania's potential accession to the European Union, the 
Albanian one would have to be shut down, nullifying the billion-dollar 
investment.
In this way, the expectations and daily lives of the Italian population 
are being directed toward false problems, resulting in a disinterest in 
politics and future government decisions and a preparation for a mass 
vote in the upcoming elections. This is the only way to form a new 
minority government, but one with a formal consensus majority that can 
continue to govern the country undaunted, in the belief that nothing can 
change and that the world, and the political forces vying for 
government, are all the same: incompetent and inconsistent.

The Editorial Staff

https://www.ucadi.org/2026/09/06/distrazione-di-massa-3/
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