The deputy prime minister spoke at the Trento Festival of Economics and expressed a necessary condition for the return to global balance: the election of Trump in the November elections in the USA. “My allies are more buttoned-up and cautious on this. I think that when the Democrats win, wars and problems break out.” And he reiterates his no to sending weapons to Ukraine: “They didn’t work”
Matteo Salvini has returned to talking about international conflicts, asking the opening of a diplomatic table for peace in Ukraine and indicating a necessary condition to return to talking about peace: the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States.
The deputy prime minister was a guest at the Trento Economics Festival to talk about the future of transport, a ministry of which he is responsible, but during the dialogue with the director of Messenger Alessandro Barbano also spoke about geopolitical scenarios: “I know that on this my colleagues, both on the left and on the right, are much more buttoned-up and much more cautious – said the secretary of the League – I say what I think: it will be fundamental, to return to a global balance, Donald Trump’s victory in the US elections in November and the Republicans.”
Because Salvini hopes for Trump’s election
A very clear position and, as Salvini himself underlines, unique even in the centre-right, since neither Giorgia Meloni for Fratelli d’Italia nor Antonio Tajani for Forza Italia have declared their support for Trump. The League’s positions on the war in Ukraine, in fact, are more similar to those of Trump and the Republican Party, whose representatives in Congress have long blocked the sending of aid to the Ukrainian army requested by the administration of US President Joe Biden (with whom, however, Meloni seems to have a good relationship). Salvini expressed himself negatively on the current president’s actions in the international arena: “Every time the democrats win in the United States, wars and problems break out in the world.”
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Salvini underlined that, in his opinion, those in the United States are the most important elections of the year, even more than the European vote: “I count that May 2024 be the year of the return to dialogue: the European elections will be important – explained the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport – but there will be others, equally if not more important, in November (in the USA they vote on 5 November, ed)”.
On the sending of weapons to Ukraine, the Northern League leader reiterated his contrary position: “I don’t think the weapons worked. We have been helping Ukraine militarily since the first day of the aggression, we have always approved any type of help. If you tell me that it is right to think about continuing to send weapons for another few months or years, I will tell you no – said Salvini – In the meantime the conflict between Israel and Hamas has also opened up, then there are the pirates (the militias Houthis, ed) in the Red Sea, in Iran there will be an electoral process, and there is China that is looking at Taiwan… In short, I would like to put out these outbreaks.”
