A-Infos (en) Italy, .Sicilia Libertaria: The bridge over the Strait like the Muos of Niscemi and Sigonella - Antonio Mazzeo and Luigi Sturniolo (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Lucio Caracciolo's point of view on the bridge over the Strait doesn't even try 
to camouflage it. He spoke about it in a piece written for La Stampa last 
December 7th. For him, the arguments, and the clashes, on the engineering, 
economic and environmental aspects of the crossing infrastructure are secondary. 
What matters is its strategic, geopolitical, military value. For this reason, the 
bridge over the Strait is assimilated to the Muos di Niscemi, the new satellite 
telecommunications system of the US Navy to govern the global conflicts of the 
21st century, "without forgetting the structures of Sigonella and Pantelleria". 
Because what matters is the strategic value of Sicily, its location in an area 
that Limes calls Chaosland, in the "enlarged" Mediterranean which has once again 
become central for trade flows from the East and for political, military, economy 
of China, Russia and Turkey.

Limes had already insisted on other occasions on this issue. Just a year ago the 
geopolitical magazine, whose editors have been permanently on national TV 
channels since the outbreak of the war between Russia and Ukraine, had published 
a special issue on Sicily. "Italy without Sicily does not exist", this was the 
argument. For this reason Sicily cannot "drown" in the Mediterranean. And in the 
piece published in La Stampa Caracciolo is explicit up to the caption. "If you 
don't want to understand, Sicily is the Frontier and without the defense of the 
Frontier the States perish", he seems to say, because from the Strait of Sicily 
(as those of Limes call the Strait of Sicily to underline the small distance that 
separates the Island from Africa) passes the main migratory route, because the 
Chinese silk road passes through there, because "the Turks and Russians of Wagner 
are quartered on the African side of the Strait", because that stretch of sea is 
crossed by the transcontinental submarine cables of the Net.

Caracciolo reminds us that Sicily was the site of invasion at the end of the 
Second World War. That time the invaders were the "American liberators" and we 
got away with it, but who could be the new invader this time? This is why Italy 
(but at this point why not Europe or the West?) without Sicily does not exist. 
Because Sicily must be the military platform in the Mediterranean, the defense of 
the West from the armies of the Brutes or the Extranei. We are the Barrier built 
to defend. This is our destiny. Lucio Caracciolo goes so far as to complain about 
the scarce military presence in the area "and to hope for a" more incisive 
presence of the Navy and the other Armed Forces in the waters "of what he insists 
on calling the" our sea ". The umpteenth ode to militarism and rearmament to 
which mainstream analysts have accustomed us in the last year of fratricidal war 
in Ukraine. Hypocritical narration of a "defenseless island" when the devastating 
and invasive militarization process that has invested every corner of Sicily and 
its smaller islands and the abnormal US presence in the naval air station of 
Sigonella, "world capital of drones". This is why the bridge serves, for 
Caracciolo: for security, to stabilize the border areas and to militarily connect 
Italy, Europe, the West to Sicily, not vice versa.

In the past we had already invited to look at the risks that the bridge brought 
with it also from this point of view. They had looked at us a little perplexed. 
The bridge would put us in danger, it would be the driving force behind a further 
strong militarization and a more suffocating control of the territory precisely 
because it is a natural strategic objective in the event of a conflict. Here we 
are served. Lucio Caracciolo throws it in our faces without even preparing us 
with words of circumstance. And to those who think that with the bridge their 
children would no longer emigrate we could advise them to enlist them, who 
perhaps would find jobs there.

What is incredible is that the return of the Mediterranean as a central place and 
the importance of Sicily due to its geographical location must necessarily be 
declined from the point of view of war. Sicily, which in the old maps appeared 
more extensive than it was precisely due to the importance it assumed in world 
trade, the Sicily always told by travellers, must it be a war platform? And why, 
instead, could it not be a platform for peace? Why couldn't the inhabitants of 
the island take "advantage" from the appearance of their land on a growing 
African continent? Why can't we think of growing together with African 
populations who work, travel, raise their families, socialize and transfer 
resources and knowledge? Our No to the bridge is also this.  A No to the logic of 
war, to the militarization of the territories and the sea, to the armed walls 
erected between North and South. It is our strong Yes, for Peace, Disarmament and 
Justice among Peoples.

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