The usual journalists who are in too much of a hurry must have missed it given that, as always happens, rather than attending the entire presentation they limited themselves to asking two questions before the start and then left almost immediately or almost. For those who remained, however, and as often happens, the news arrived at the end of the event. Roberto Vannacci, the division general, former commander of Col Moschin, the raider unit of our army, excellence in the field, and also former commander of the Folgore Brigade, on the sidelines of the presentation of his book Courage wins at the Casa del Boia granted once again by Tony Lazzaroni, he announced erga omnes that in a world like the current one, if you want peace you must prepare for war. For heaven’s sake, not that it’s anything new if you consider that already in the fourth and fifth centuries AD, Flavius Vegetius Renatus, an imperial official from the time of Theodosius, wrote Igitur quidesit pacem, praeparet bellum. Furthermore, even the current Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, during her trip to the United States in 2022 immediately after the Russian aggression against Ukraine, in a public speech in excellent English – none other than Matteo Renzi – used the phrase arousing approval in the audience.
Well, anticipating the issues that were touched upon just yesterday in Rome during the official presentation of his candidacy for the European Championships under the League, Major General Vannacci explained to his fans at the Casa del Boia that the issue of security and that of peace , absolutely not disjointed, they need our country to think seriously about investing in the modernization of military tools and equipment. He must do it, he added, because, otherwise and like any machine, it would end up rusting and becoming almost useless as well as unusable. Vannacci himself recalled the famous Latin phrase to explain that the world is not made of and by saints and that if a State must and wants to be free and safe within and outside its borders – which exist and which cannot and must not be canceled – needs to prepare.
What will the one (only) dimensional pacifists say now, what will Pope Francis say, in particular, who thinks one thing, says a hundred things and is 99 wrong? What will the far left, above all, say, according to which we must all always be on the side of the weakest – Hamas? – of peace and all wars go badly except the one against the West, Israel and capitalism?
If you consider that the head of the Defense Department is a certain Guido Crosetto who knows little or nothing about military service and everything relating to the uniform and its requirements, compared to Vannacci, one can hope that, sooner or later then, in via XX Settembre they put someone competent in the matter.
La Gazzetta di Lucca re-proposes the video of Monday afternoon’s event at the Casa del Boia so that people can listen to what the most loved and, at the same time, most hated general by Italians really said only and only because he is not an invertebrate and has the attributes in the only place where mother nature wanted them.
