1. in the middle of one of the most serious health and economic crises, in the middle of a distracted time as summer can be, the #Pentagon plans to move troops from #Germany to #Italy, thus confirming #Italy as the launching pad of US wars

2. I have worked as a journalist for the last 19 years, when I got access to the US diplomacy cables published by #WikiLeaks, I spent 1 year on 4,189 cables on #Italy and the #Vatican. I was shocked to learn the extent of Italy's involvement in US wars

3. I was shocked read cables like this: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/03ROME2045_a.html I was shocked to learn how my country has contributed to destroy entire nations: from #Afghanistan to #Iraq to #Libya and, sooner or later, #Iran

4. the more I read the cables, the more I was furious: "every single day, I use to read 10 newspapers, why I didn't realise the full extent of my country's involvement in US wars?", I asked myself. The answer is: our media have protected the Pentagon's war machine for decades

5. so when I read the US diplomacy's Machiavellian manoeuvring to bring "a country [Italy] roundly opposed to [the #Iraq] war as close as it could politically to the brink of belligerent status", I was upset: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/03ROME2045_a.html

6. when I read how Italian #pacifists had been spied by the Italian authorities on US behalf to neutralise their protests because those protests disrupted US troops' ops, I was upset

7. When I read today's newspapers suggesting that the #Pentagon might move US soldiers and F16 to #Italy because Italy is a good and reliable partner, I can't tolerate such propaganda.

8. The #Pentagon plans to move its soldiers and F16 to #Italy, because as the US diplomacy wrote down in this cable https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/03ROME2045_a.html "Italy is an excellent place to do our political-military business"