Italy denied U.S. military aircraft headed for the Middle East permission to land at its Sigonella air base in Sicily.

Italy denied U.S. military aircraft headed for the Middle East permission to land at its Sigonella air base in Sicily, according to local reports.

  • gukleszl4hs48ughgxhr5xgd@fedia.io
    125·
    10 days ago

    The decision was reportedly made by Italy’s defense minister Guido Crosetto, who was left stranded in the Middle East as the war kicked off. Crosetto said on March 1 that he was being evacuated from Dubai by military aircraft after he had traveled to the region for a family vacation.

    lol

      • limonfiesta@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        10 days ago

        It’s the Italian bureaucracy, I think it’s safe to assume pettiness is the chief motivating factor here.

        I’ll take it, don’t get me wrong, but let’s not get it twisted.

        • RidderSport@feddit.orgEnglish
          8·
          9 days ago

          While it is a bit petty, I think it is mostly insulting to the italian defense minister. I mean you find yourself in a hot zone during vacation because your supposed ally couldn’t give less of a shit to inform you that it would start a war. So honestly, quite a reasonable crash out

    • bthest@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      8 days ago

      That’s what you get for going to that place for vacation. But good call none the less.

  • blindpuskas@piefed.worldEnglish
    112·
    10 days ago

    It is good to see that Spain is not the only one taking part and making statements in Europe, regardless of the ruling ideology.

  • iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    57·
    10 days ago

    AFAIK both Spain and France have completely denied access to their airspace for war related efforts. So flights departing from the UK after a refuel are going to have to do one hell of a detour to get to destination. And now, Italy denies bases use too.

    • tempest@lemmy.caEnglish
      14·
      10 days ago

      Turns out it helps to at least have a coalition of the doesn’t give a shit before you start a war you can’t win 7000 miles away.

    • Damage@feddit.itEnglish
      44·
      10 days ago

      Because they’ve recently lost a huge referendum about changes to the Constitution, and every channel on TV is talking about government crises and how the right-wing coalition that’s currently governing is falling apart, as the referendum vote was seen as a popular no-confidence vote on the current government.

      People are pissed, we had huge protests last autumn about the situation in Gaza, in my city it was the biggest one I’ve ever been to, so this is a bit of a sensitive topic, an easy way to gain back some poll percentages.

      • Jay101@lemmy.worldBanned from communityEnglish
        4·
        10 days ago

        But I bet people are more pissed about economic and social situation, because all these right and centrist refuse to make regulations and tax the billionaires while the workers pay for everything in the country.

        • Damage@feddit.itEnglish
          4·
          9 days ago

          Idk, the economic and social situations in Italy have always sucked, people are kinda used to “making do”, we always joke about “italian solutions”.

    • Melchior@feddit.orgEnglish
      42·
      10 days ago

      The decision was made by Crosetto the Italian defense minsiter, who got stuck in Dubai, when the US and Israel attacked. He is also on the moderate wing and from a rich family. Italy is weird that way. As in some members of a party go out a Roman Salute around, while praising Mussolini, and then the next day other members of the party call themself anti fascists and would love a European federation.

      • reksas@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        10·
        10 days ago

        i wonder if that was the only reason for this decision or if they actually thought things through

        • Jhex@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          10 days ago

          Meloni just lost a very important public consultation about criminal law reform…

  • ___caio___@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    13·
    10 days ago

    It’s just a formality, they didn’t ask so the government uses it as cheap propaganda to gain consensus after the justice referendum debacle. Meanwhile from Aviano jets are regularly taking off.

    • Axolotl@feddit.itEnglish
      1·
      8 days ago

      I don’t think so, it was the defense minister who refused, he actually got in the crossfire with his family during the start of the war, i bet that he didn’t liked that lmao

  • LmB@lemmy.zipEnglish
    10·
    10 days ago

    what could be the reason? I mean Meloni is the servile ally of Washington

    • Ooops@feddit.orgEnglish
      10·
      10 days ago

      Ask her defense minister that was stranded in the middle East on family vacation and had to be evacuated by military plane, just because the US were to stupid to even inform their allies they would randomly start a war there…

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
      9·
      10 days ago

      She doesn’t want Sicily to attract long range missiles.

      US doesn’t give a fuck about making other countries targets.

  • Gammelfisch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    8 days ago

    Bravo Italia! The MAGA fucknuts must be fuming. In other news, I heard the French stopped and will not allow arms shipments across their territory to the lunatics in Israel.