Defence, Meloni: ‘Seek peace with every effort, but no to pacifism against the armed forces’

Rome, 22 Dec. (LaPresse) – ‘For me, coming to the Joint Forces Operational Command is always exciting, it is also an opportunity that gives me a particular awareness, because clearly what we have here in this puzzle of connected images is the effort, let’s say the image of the complete effort that our nation offers thanks to each of you to ensure security, to ensure defence at a global level’. So said Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in a video link from Covi with military contingents abroad. “This clearly has enormous value in itself, it has enormous value especially at a time and in a period such as the one we are going through, because it is a time in which the words “war” and “peace” return above all as a dominant feature of our daily lives, become political debate, make us question ourselves. Peace is clearly a precious commodity when we have it, and it is something to be sought with every effort when we lose it. However, this is understood more than anyone else by those who know war and are prepared to face it. This is why I have never accepted the narrative of those who contrast the idea of pacifism with the armed forces,” added the Prime Minister.