Silvio Berlusconi, without turns: Italy “is at war because it sends weapons to Ukraine”

The former president and leader of Forza Italia, Silvio Berlusconi, assured that Italy “is at war because it sends weapons to Ukraine ” and criticized the position of some Western leaders who make the possibility of a dialogue with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin , move away. to stop the war.

In an intervention last night during a rally of his party in the town of Treviglio (north), Berlusconi was surprised by his statements far removed from the position that the government of Mario Draghi, of which his party is a part, is taking in the invasion of Ukraine by Russia .

While Forza Italia has so far supported Draghi in sending weapons to Ukraine, parties in the government alliance such as the League or the 5-Star Movement have started asking the government for explanations about it.

“We don’t have leaders in the world, we don’t have leaders in Europe . I’m afraid that this war is going to continue , we are also at war because we are sending them weapons,” said Berlusconi , who criticized that after sending light weapons now they will send “tanks and heavy weapons”

Berlusconi said that the sanctions applied by the European Union to Russia will have “strong repercussions” on Italy’s economy “and there will be even more serious damage in Africa and then there may be waves of refugees.” “You have to think of something exceptional to stop the war,” he added.

He then criticized in reference to US President Joe Biden , though without citing him that “a world leader who was supposed to approach Putin at the mediation table called him a war criminal and said he had to leave the Russian government”.

Just as he also accused the NATO secretary, Jens Stoltenberg , of having said that “the independence of the Dombas region would never be recognized ” so that “with these premises, Mr. Putin is far from sitting at a table”.

The three-time Prime Minister insisted “on a single foreign policy and common defense”. “Since 2002 I have asked Europe to be a single voice in foreign policy and have a common armed force because no country would have the strength to defend itself Berlusconi stressed.

“With a common force we would become a world military power and as such you could sit at the world council table where the United States, Russia, Japan and China sit . Now we don’t count for anything in the world,” she assured.