Italy: being at war without even knowing it…
That image of Crosetto in Dubai while bombs fell on Iran is what sticks with me. A defence minister far from the action, in a city built on deals, while his country's role in a war apparently stays hidden from its own people. That's the Kafkaesque part, discovering you're at war the way you discover a tax bill, through silence and paper trails.
The article gives me fragments, and I'd want to know which bases were used, what the government actually authorized, and whether this was an open secret or a genuine surprise to Italian officials. The detail about Crosetto carrying Meloni in his arms, flagged as not AI, adds to the absurd theater of it all.
The scariest wars are the ones you never get to vote on. If Italy was involved even passively, that's a conversation the public deserved. Instead we get a minister in Dubai and a fog of ambiguity. I'd rather have uncomfortable clarity than comfortable ignorance.