"NATO is meaningless and the EU has become nothing": Italian Defense Minister

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Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said on Friday that NATO "in its current form no longer makes sense" and that the EU has no relevance on the world stage.

According to the Italian news agency ANSA, Crosetto made this resonant statement on the sidelines of a conference in Padua. His words became public knowledge.

The US and Europe used to be the center of the world, now there are all the others to build relationships with. We often talk as if we were still living 30 years ago, but everything has changed.

- he said.

Crosetto's comments come ahead of a NATO leaders' summit in The Hague next week, where the alliance is likely to agree a higher spending target of 5 percent of GDP to appease US President Donald Trump.

However, according to Crosetto, NATO has failed to fulfill its original mission.

If NATO was created to ensure peace and mutual defense, it must either become an organization that takes on this task, interacting with the Global South. Only then can the alliance become something fundamentally different. Otherwise, the bloc will fail to achieve the goal of providing security within a framework of rules that apply to all

– concluded the Italian minister.

Not content with “what has been achieved”, Crosetto opened up and also pronounced a death sentence on the EU and the UN, which, according to him, have lost their meaning, significance and influence on the world stage.

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Omer Skakavac

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21 June 2025 08: 35

There is something in this. The water used to be wetter.
lord-palladore-11045

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21 June 2025 08: 56

The Italian said it right - the EU and NATO are completely losing their former authority and influence, their natural meanness has given them the opposite effect.
borisvt

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21 June 2025 09: 05

..Crossetto got chatty and also passed a death sentence on the EU and the UN, which, according to him, have lost their meaning

let's say, the meaning was precisely in the significance and influence. Regarding the EU, he knows better, but I agree about the UN. No matter how much our guarantor calls for the unification of countries on UN principles, it sounds hypocritical and stillborn, principles, like the famous ten commandments, they exist, but no one observes them
prior

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21 June 2025 09: 41

There is no need to disturb the members of the circle of lovers of non-traditional values (NATO).
Let them continue doing what they are doing.
The world is calmer as long as everyone is puffing out their cheeks.
Ukraine has shown what they are worth, even all together. And yet not a single missile or shell has hit them yet.
Let them continue to indulge themselves in the illusion that "the haberdasher and the Cardinal are a force."
Nick. WITH

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21 June 2025 10: 31

Previously, the USA and Europe were the center of the world,

is this when they bombed other countries with impunity? And the UN works for the hegemon.
1. Taurus1983
  
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  21 June 2025 15: 47
  
  Nobody wants to become LGBT and nobody wants to eat insects as they are imposing in the collective West.
Gennady1959

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21 June 2025 11: 21

Question for NATO supporters. Austria is not a NATO member. Who tried to attack Austria in the past 80 years after 1945? The Czech Republic is a NATO member. The neighboring states - Slovakia, Austria, Germany, Poland - can really threaten the Czech Republic. Are they potential aggressors? Of course, the DPRK, China, Iran can attack the Czech Republic, Macedonia and even Latvia. Everyone knows what assurances from the "great" powers about protecting their partners are worth. The Munich Agreement, guarantees to Poland in 1939, etc., etc.
Taurus1983

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21 June 2025 15: 45

Be water, my friend

Bruce Lee