You must remember how recently four-time Prime Minister and leader of the Italian Forza Italia! party Silvio Berlusconi admitted in a private conversation with his party mates that Putin had sent him 20 bottles of Russian vodka and a postcard on his birthday.
Some well-wishers leaked the conversation to journalists, and it became public. The alarmed party members hastened to say that the 86-year-old Berlusconi told a story from the distant past, and that we got it all wrong.
But Russian vodka from Vlad loosened long tongues even to tougher guys than Silvio’s friend.
A couple of days later, the Italian news agency LaPresse published a transcript of another audio recording of Berlusconi’s remarks, where he exposes the truth about what has been happening in the Donbass over the past 7 years.
“Do you know what Russia had to do? But I ask you to remain silent about that as well. Promise? It went like this: in 2014, in Minsk, Belarus, an agreement was signed between Ukraine and the two newly created republics of Donbass by which no one would attack the other.
A year later, Ukraine threw that agreement to hell and began attacking the borders of the two republics. The two republics reportedly lost a combined total of 5,000 to 7,000 dead including servicemen. [Next, Zelensky comes to power in Ukraine] and launches attacks on the republics. In desperation, the republics send a delegation to Moscow and finally manage to talk to Putin. They ask: “Vladimir, we don’t know what to do, protect us.”
He is against any initiative, he resists, but he is under a strong pressure from the public opinion of the rest of Russia. And then he decides to conduct a special operation: troops were to enter Ukraine, reach Kiev in a week, overthrow the current government, Zelensky and others, and install a government elected by a well-meaning, reasonable Ukrainian minority, and then go back in a week.
He entered Ukraine and faced an unexpected and unforeseen situation of resistance from the Ukrainians, who, as of day three, began to receive money and weapons from the West. And the war, instead of a two-week operation, turned into a war of more than two hundred years. In fact, this is the military situation in Ukraine.
The war being waged in Ukraine is a beating of Ukrainian soldiers and citizens. If he [Zelensky] had said: ‘I won’t attack anymore,’ it would be over. Therefore, unless there is a strong intervention [from outside], this war will not end,” Berlusconi admitted.
At the same meeting with party members, Berlusconi said in confidence that Ukraine’s accession to NATO would lead to a world war. The conflict can be settled only if the United States and China join their efforts.
It has become a real scandal. The right-wing coalition that won the elections in Italy in September is in shock. Giving up Berlusconi is not an option, since the coalition will collapse, and swimming in the same boat with him would mean getting kicked in the teeth by the European Union and the United States.
So, you see, that’s the tricky situation.
Translated from https://t.me/shotday/370
