Der italienische Präsident Meloni hat jeglichen italienischen Beitrag zur Unterstützung der USA in der Straße von Hormus ausgeschlossen.

In an interview with the tv program Quarta Repubblica, on the Rete 4 tv channel, the Italian president of the Council of Ministers Giorgia Meloni has excluded any Italian involvement in the military operations to reopen the strait of Hormuz, which Iran has effectively blocked. Before the start of the War in the Middle East, the Hormuz strait saw the passage of ships coming to and from the Persian Gulf, which among other things carried one fifth of all the oil and gas sold in the World. The blockade of naval traffic in the strait is causing steep increases in the price of energy causing enormous effects on the world economy.

For what concerns the Italian involvement in Hormuz, Meloni was referring to the plan proposed by president of the United States, Donald Trump, to form an international coalition to escort the ships transiting the strait, in order to restart the naval traffic and thus bring down the price of oil and gas. Trump hasn’t given many details on how exactly he plans to reopen the strait, and the two main options at his disposal [naval intervention and troop landings] are both quite dangerous.

Meloni has said that intervening in the strait of Hormuz with the United States “Would mean making a step forward towards getting involved” in the war in the Middle East. In doing so she aligned herself with many other countries, including those of the European Union: until now no government has made a commitment to send warships in the strait of Hormuz, as demanded by Trump. “We will remember this”, said Trump to the press Monday, without elaborating further but implying that there would be consequences for the countries that wouldn’t help him.

Meloni’s position isn’t surprising, given that it’s perfectly in line with the one held by the European Union and given that her government has so far excluded any involvement in the war in the Middle East. It’s nonetheless noticeable that Meloni has expressed so openly her rejection of Trump’s plan, since Meloni has always presented herself as the main mediator between Europe and the US president. In the last few months though her approach towards Trump has become much more ambivalent, given his unpopularity in Italy, his fickleness and his hostile approach towards the European Union.

Meloni has also added that she would rather strengthen the Aspides naval mission, of which Italy is one of the main contributors. Aspides is a naval deployment created by the European Union in January of 2024 in order to protect the ships transiting through the Red Sea from the attacks of the Yemeni Houthi militias allied with Iran. Aspides in theory can also conduct operations in the Strait of Hormuz, although strictly only for the defence of the transiting ships. But for now Aspides hasn’t, and will not be, extended to cover Hormuz as well, as reiterated by Meloni, who in the interview has stressed that the mission is, and will remain, active only in the Red Sea.

I mean didnt we „stay off the front line“ as the orange guy said? The U.S seems ok with giving insults left and right to its allies, and the american general population seems ok with it, so as they say, chi semina vento…

Bravo!!!!!

Good for her. Sounds like she has the best interests of Italians in mind, and isn’t being led around by the nose by Netenyahu.

Even fascists gov don’t support Trump… Maybe Orbzn will send ships !!

Trump is the sucker and loser now

Excellent. Now every EU country should sign new deals with China.

The orange one just wants ally ships to go into the strait first to take the initial hit so he can „come to the rescue“. If a US ship goes in first and hits a mine or something manages to sneak through the defences of the ship he is toast.

China and Russia are aiding Iran with the Israel/USA bullshit, any move from other countries against Iran right now would look like a straight attack at all of them and mean world war lll, i dont think Europe wants that right now, even after watching how trump treats his allies, he would backstack europe in a blink and leave them alone to deal with russia and china.
And maybe this is all he planned from the beggining, forcing a world war to fk up europe

Trump will be very unhappy, especially as he’s besotted with her,

America is discovering that they have no friends.

Trump is going through what I fear most in life… Inviting people to my housewarming but nobody turns up

Questo prima del referendum 🥳 vedremo dopo il referendum se cambia idea…

Good! That shit stain of a national deserves nothing but our contempt and it citizens pur disdain