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Marco Setaccioli wrote that listening to Riccardo Ricciardi of the 5 Star Movement required patience, but could be instructive. He reported that, as a guest the day before on Piazzapulita on La7, Ricciardi had corrected Giorgia Mulè multiple times and even corrected himself, using the terms "arms" and "rearmament" in response to those discussing defense and security. According to Setaccioli, M5S representatives often resorted to those words in Parliament, on television, in the squares, and in Marco Travaglio’s newspaper, to stir up outrage by linking rearmament to the rising cost of living, healthcare waiting lists, the scarcity of university housing, and even bad weather. He added that a young guest on the same episode, Fouad, repeated the slogan "more school, less arms" while, in his opinion, making an unacceptable "non-condemnation" of those responsible for the devastation in Milan, without knowing figures and spending mechanisms. Setaccioli argued that this could lead people to believe that 14 billion would be spent on arms while prices were rising and schools were falling apart. He stated that, through the SAFE mechanism, the capital invested in security would be returned after 10 years, over 35 years, and at almost zero interest. He also wrote that spending on arms, adjusted for inflation, had increased proportionally more in the three measures approved by Giuseppe Conte in peacetime than in the four enacted by the Meloni government, despite two large-scale wars ongoing. According to Setaccioli, that year's budget had increased the defense budget by 1.1 billion, an amount that likely would not have been enough to offset the rising cost of living, while the consequences of the Superbonus would have cost 40 billion. He concluded that no funds would be taken from schools to favor arms lobbyists and attributed the precarious conditions of institutions to the choices of those who, in his view, preferred to finance thermal coats, fixtures, and facades of second homes and castles. #M5S #Difesa #Sicurezza (translated)

Marco Setaccioli wrote that, judging by the image, the M5S voted differently from most of its group, The Left, and in line with AfD. He wondered if he was the only one to think that Giuseppe Conte's natural ally was Roberto Vannacci, rather than Elly Schlein. #politica #M5S #alleanze (translated)

Marco Setaccioli quoted the words with which Witkoff addressed Putin, calling him "humanitarian" and telling him to respect him. Setaccioli criticized Witkoff, describing him as a real estate developer serving Trump, whom he called a corrupt and pathologically narcissistic bankrupt. He also accused Witkoff of going to Putin with a servile attitude, whom he pointed out as the "greatest murderer of the century," and concluded that the situation had exceeded the boundaries of reality. #politica #umanità #realtà (translated)

Marco Setaccioli shared a passage attributed to Donald Trump, which he had accompanied with a clown emoji. In the text, Trump claimed that a thousand Russian tanks could reach Ukraine in four hours traveling at 48 miles per hour on a paved highway, and that the war would be over in a day. He attributed the diversion towards farmland and then towards Kiev to a general whom he could not identify and doubted was still alive. According to the account, the tanks got stuck in the mud; Trump had added that if they had remained on the highway, the war would have ended in three and a half or at most four hours. #Trump #Ucraina #Guerra (translated)

Marco Setaccioli challenged Marco Travaglio's calculations on European and Russian military spending, stating that Travaglio had indicated 450 billion euros for Europe and 150 for Russia and had argued that Russia had reason to fear Europe, which had invaded it four times in the last 200 years. According to Setaccioli, in the current year Russia would have spent around 17 trillion rubles on defense, equivalent to 181 billion euros, a figure indicated, according to him, by most analysts. He noted that the nominal comparison did not take purchasing power into account: applying indices developed by specialized research centers, Russian spending would rise to 574 billion international dollars, compared to about 700 billion for the entire EU. He added that the EU would have three and a half times the population of Russia and a GDP nine times greater. Setaccioli argued that the Russian federal budget did not show all military costs. He cited studies by economist Craig Kennedy, according to which part of the spending would be financed through subsidized loans and would thus remain on the banks' balance sheets. He also recalled an investigation by Dozhd', which, according to him, had documented pressures on private companies to hire people before signing contracts with the military and to supplement salaries with corporate funds. He added that at least three militias would be linked to Gazprom, which would cover part of the costs. For these reasons, he dismissed as false the claim that Russia spent less than the EU. Historically, Setaccioli criticized Travaglio's reconstruction, according to which the Napoleonic and Nazi invasions, along with interventions in Crimea and support for the Bolsheviks, would justify Russian fears toward Europe. Setaccioli listed Russian troop interventions in Poland in 1939, Finland in 1939-1940, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Romania in 1940, Bulgaria in 1944, Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968, Moldova in 1992, Georgia in 2008, and Ukraine in 2014 and 2022. He stated that there were no Russian regions occupied by European countries, while eight regions—one in Moldova, two in Georgia, and five in Ukraine—would be under Russian control. Finally, Setaccioli accused Travaglio of presenting a selective and misleading reconstruction to make Russia appear not dangerous, portray Europe as a threat, and argue that rearmament was unnecessary and risky. In his view, that reasoning could legitimize a potential Russian attack on Europe and constituted a form of collaborationism. #Russia #Europa #Difesa (translated)

Marco Setaccioli wrote that the war had returned to St. Petersburg, the hometown of those who had unleashed it. He reported that the oil terminal, the Ruchyi oil depot, and the VKontakte data center, which he described as the Russian Facebook, had been hit. According to Setaccioli, an electrical substation near the data center had also been damaged, causing a large blackout. He added that in the early hours of the morning, a large Ozon distribution center had been hit and caught fire. #guerra #SanPietroburgo #notizie (translated)

Marco Setaccioli criticized those who claimed that bombing refineries meant “burning the planet,” stating that those people did not mention the Russian actions of recent years. According to him, Russian forces had scattered bombs and mines over hundreds of thousands of hectares, poisoned fields and aquifers, blown up dams, and killed millions of farm animals, in addition to causing suffering to pets, setting fire to shelters, and disrupting the ecosystem. Setaccioli had used a derogatory expression to compare critics to Greta Thunberg. #Ambiente #Guerra #Sostenibilità (translated)

Marco Setaccioli wrote that he randomly found on the web photographs that, according to him, depicted the student protests of the previous day in Brindisi, Cagliari, Genoa, and Avellino. He compared the situation to the 1960s, arguing that back then the protests were directed against the aggressor, whereas today those who aided the attacked were criticized. https://t.co/nEybJ7cA9g #proteste #studenti #diritti (translated)

Marco Setaccioli claimed that Russia had lost control of its skies and that, for days, the airports in Moscow and St. Petersburg had minimized their activities, with hundreds of flights regularly canceled. He wrote that Antalya airport in Turkey was full of Russian citizens unable to find a flight back home. He added that the situation could worsen if the Kremlin leader did not put an end to the war, referring to him with a derogatory term. #Russia #Guerra #Voli (translated)

Marco Setaccioli wrote that a Russian drone struck a supermarket in the Odessa region in broad daylight, causing at least three injuries. He questioned Putin's motives and criticized the idea of resuming gas purchases, arguing that it would finance the Russian leader, whom he described with an insult. https://t.co/4AwC60D0Kp #Odessa #Russia #Guerra (translated)

Marco Setaccioli criticized Marco Travaglio for claiming that resuming purchases of Russian gas would be more advantageous for Europe than for Moscow. According to Setaccioli, sales data contradicted this thesis: since the beginning of the war, European consumption of Russian gas would have fallen from 150 billion cubic meters per year in 2021 to 18 in 2025. Of the 132 billion lost, he wrote, China would only have bought 28 more; moreover, Xi would not have wanted to build the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline. Setaccioli added that Gazprom had laid off hundreds of people and recorded losses for the first time in many years. On the topic of prices, Setaccioli stated that, before Donald Trump's move related to Iran, gas cost 32 euros per MWh, despite Russian supplies being at a minimum. He compared that price to the peak of 180 euros per MWh reached in December 2021, before the start of the war in Ukraine, when the pipelines were still intact and Russian supplies continued. According to Setaccioli, Moscow had reduced reserves and supplies to raise cash ahead of the invasion and to pressure Europe, dissuading it from supporting Kyiv. He attributed European diversification to the choice of not following the positions of Travaglio and Alessandro Di Battista, who, he wrote, had sought to stop the TAP, the pipeline that brings gas from Azerbaijan, evoking environmental damage that Puglia, according to him, was still awaiting. Finally, Setaccioli reported that the day before, the parliamentary group of the vannacciani had presented a resolution to resume purchases of Russian gas. He speculated that the proposal had come following new indications from Moscow. #gasrusso #Gazprom #energia (translated)

Marco Setaccioli wrote that he considered Giorgia Meloni's positions on many issues to be unheeded, but recognized her courage and foresight for speaking of a "just peace" in Ukraine. According to him, in Italy the concept was unpopular because the country, having not had to come to terms with its own history, had become selfish. After listening to the speech, he wondered whether Elly Schlein, if elected to lead the country, would be able to deliver a similar one. Regarding Giuseppe Conte, he added that it was already known what he would say. #Ucraina #Pace #Politica (translated)

Marco Setaccioli accused Travaglio of focusing on Gazprom and wrote that the Fatto had welcomed the decision attributed to Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin to rebuild the Nord Stream pipelines, described as "destroyed by Kiev." He called the director's comment manipulative, arguing that it presented the conflict as a proxy war, used derogatory tones towards European leaders, criticized the sanctions, and attributed the manipulation of Ukrainians to Washington and London, without naming Russia as the aggressor. Setaccioli also accused Travaglio of echoing Trump's narrative that the energy price hikes depended on Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries, rather than the war against Iran, and of blaming and harassing those who died under the bombings. #politica #media #guerra (translated)

Marco Setaccioli had written that, in his opinion, it was easy to recognize the so-called "peace-fakers." He had mentioned the protests against U.S. imperialism following the invasions of Vietnam in 1965 and Iraq in 2003, arguing that the same appeal was directed at the United States even after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. https://t.co/bgXTVjQJTa #anticapitalismo #imperialismo #pace (translated)

Marco Setaccioli replied to Marco Travaglio asking him when he would leave. He claimed that Travaglio had written hundreds of editorials, published two books, gathered theatrical performances, and participated in countless television programs talking about a country that, according to Setaccioli, he had never visited and of which he showed to know nothing. #Italia #Politica #Media (translated)

Marco Setaccioli wrote that a video showed the attack that took place the previous evening in Pisochyn, in the suburbs of Kharkiv, where, according to his post, Russian forces struck a supermarket while it was open. He reported that three people had died — a 16-year-old boy, a 19-year-old girl, and a 51-year-old woman — and that another 25 were injured, including two girls aged 13 and 9. Setaccioli added that the store was located in a densely populated residential area, near multi-story buildings and shops. Citing the prosecutor's office, he indicated that the strike occurred around 7:25 PM. In commenting on the attack, he claimed that Kremlin supporters, even outside Russia, were encouraging Moscow to hope that support for those fighting for their freedom would diminish. He accused them of being complicit in the victims' plight and wrote that, after a possible collapse of Moscow, they would not be able to escape the shame of having supported what he called the 21st-century Reich. #Ucraina #Kharkiv #Guerra (translated)

Marco Setaccioli accused the recipients of his message of collaborating with Putin and constantly contributing to the weakening of democracies. He argued that, without their actions, Putin would have stopped killing a long time ago, and he wrote that he felt deep shame for what he considered their moral abyss. #democrazia #Putin #vergogna (translated)