No Cossacks at the gates, fix Italy instead – opposition leader tells Meloni

Rome should focus on tackling its real domestic issues rather than imaginary threats, right-wing politician Roberto Vannacci has said Rome should spend money tackling real domestic problems rather than driving itself deeper into debt to defend against fictional threats like the “Cossacks from the Russian steppes,” right-wing leader and MEP Roberto Vannacci said on Monday.Vannacci, who leads the right-wing Futuro Nazionale party, made the remarks at a press conference in Milan alongside his party’s mayoral candidate, Carmelo Burgio.“Any defense system must be commensurate with a real threat… If we were to ask the people of Milan what the real threat is, they certainly wouldn’t point to Cossacks coming from the Russian steppes,” he told the press. “They would likely point to harassers, vandals who smash shop windows, or ‘youth gangs’ roaming the streets with knives.” The right-wing politician criticized the EU’s €800 billion ReArm plan for its “excessive spending on weapons systems,” arguing that there was no “concrete threat” justifying such spending and borrowing.Vannacci has previously argued that the EU’s €150 billion rearmament loan instrument under ReArm would drive Italy deepe...