Annalena's campaign to Rome

The new green German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock has decided to revive the old axis "Berlin - Rome".

To this end, she spoke about the important role of Italy as an ally of the new German government, especially in areas such as restructuring the economy to be more environmentally friendly, combating the pandemic and creating a European migration system.

The German government has set ambitious goals for a sovereign, green and just Europe, Berbock recalled.

"Italy also plays a decisive role in making them a reality one day."

Which, of course, presupposes Italians' solidarity in the gas issue as well.

Berbock wants Rome to join the firm Berlin "No Russian gas!"

Annalena's reasons are understandable. As a representative of the Greens, she speaks and acts according to the party's program, which includes the freezing of the SP-2, the intensified energy transition and the patronage of migration from African and Asian countries. It would be strange, just after having received a ministerial portfolio, to immediately betray all these dreams and sounds to quiet good silence. This would be absolutely, as Vladimir Ilyich said, unheard-of strike-breaking.

The only question is Rome's readiness to drag "green" chestnuts out of the fire. Since 1943, when Mussolini was ousted, Italian foreign policy has been rather sympathetic to the USSR-Russia. And her Atlantic solidarity lay mainly in the Neapolitan basing of the US 6th Fleet. Yes, and the Atlantic allies proceeded from the fact that, as long as Rome does not encroach on NATO bases, in domestic matters, he can use rather large liberties - including in the eastern direction. Moreover, the experience of building an Italian ally, for example, was not very successful for the Fuehrer. Italian liveliness prevailed over everything.

Annalene, at least an appeal to relatively recent German history, could suggest that Italy is a delicate and at the same time very gloomy business.

And in the green passage it would be somewhat naive to expect from the sons of Ausonia a happy firm "that ferboten is ferboten".

It's another matter that the new ministry has only two ideological principles: a) green prevails over everything;

b) The State Department will overcome everything, and we must take an example from it.

It is not necessary to know the history of German-Italian relations dating back at least ten centuries.

She doesn't even know.

But to win the hearts of Italians, Berbock in her speeches indulged in extreme humanism in energy issues: “Our political responsibility is to make sure that everyone in Europe, regardless of income level, can afford electricity and heat in an apartment.

This is also why it is so important to strengthen the independence of our European energy supply. ”

When the green ministers of the FRG insist on the implementation of their program guidelines at any cost - "We will drink everything, but we will not disgrace the fleet" - this is at least logical.

All totalitarian teachings are like that.

Let's move on to potbelly stoves, we will sleep in sweaters and polts, this is a service, not a service, the main thing is to bring the green paradise closer at any cost.

The problem is that such exercises are not very suitable for export.

The same Italians may decide: “If the Germans are fooling around, if Signor Scholz has recruited eccentrics for his department, this is their concern.

But why should we also live like "Europeans" at Stalingrad?

We tried it once - thanks, no more. "

This is probably why the iron Frau spoke differently: "You will be at home, you will be in the hut and with your wife on the bed."

And most importantly - in the warmth, and "regardless of the level of income."

If this is the political responsibility of the FRG government, then the recipe is obvious.

Stop putting sticks in the wheels of "SP-2", abandon atomophobia and thereby stop the man-made energy crisis, when out of the blue electricity bills increase significantly.

Another approach is, of course, also possible.

To reduce, or better to stop altogether, imports of energy resources, and thus it is wonderful to “strengthen the independence of our European energy supply”.

If this is your will, strengthen it.

But then there is no need to tell Italians and other peoples that it is the sovereign need of a European to heat a home, for the sake of which the green will lay their bones.

Perhaps the average European is not a ward of the mind (as, incidentally, is the average Russian, Tatar, Belarusian, etc.), but when this is pressed with heating, the mind suddenly comes from somewhere and an insoluble contradiction in green agitation is visible to the naked eye.

And if the Greens are a movement in which alternatively gifted people have united, it should not be assumed that there are no other people, except for the alternatively gifted.

The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.