“We are heading for a dark moment in history and just like in the 1930s, we are heading for a global financial crisis that will lead to global conflict. It’s clear as the sun. And the horror that we saw in Ukraine will also come to Italy». These are the words of Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s former strategist, in an exclusive interview broadcast on “Zona Bianca, the extensive program directed by Giuseppe Brindisi on Retequattro and created by Maria Luisa Rossi Hawkins.
“I don’t think NATO should really be involved, let alone the United States. Even in WWII it was Hitler who declared war on the US, not the other way around these are the words of Steve Bannon NATO is a joke, this is a war between oligarchs and I said it from the start. Women, children, soldiers, all these people will die and Ukrainian cities will all be destroyed like Dresden and for what? There will be talk of returning the provinces of the East to Russia, the position of Ukraine will be formalized, which must not be admitted to NATO, it will be said that it is part of the European Union, but not as a permanent member. Ukraine is becoming a buffer zone with Turkey and India as guarantors, but did we really need 6 months of devastation and death to achieve that?
“I want to make a brutal comment on the American Congress as well as the Italian Parliament. It’s embarrassing when a guy like Zelensky quotes Churchill one day and talks about the Holocaust the next, goes back to Martin Luther King, talks about Pearl Harbor and 9/11. And these clowns stand up and clap their hands Bannon continued on Rete4 Zelensky is just a man. Yesterday he fired two of his generals for treason just because they didn’t think like him. He’s a comedian and he’s also corrupt. Ukraine is ruled by oligarchs just like Russia is ruled by the military, oligarchs and the KGB. Even Ukraine is ruled by oligarchs, so we don’t give Zelenskyy a standing ovation when he talks about Pearl Harbor or when he comes to Italy to mention, I don’t know, the Roman Empire. Those who stood up on this occasion should never be reelected. Even the dead in Ukraine would say the same».
Then the speech turns to the attitude of the Americans to the war in Ukraine. “Do all Americans think like Biden about the war in Ukraine?” Of course not and rightly so. This war should never have happened. The Ukrainians were used as slaughter». According to Bannon, this war could not have happened during the Trump presidency. “If Trump had been President, he would have seen that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has already claimed 14,000 lives since 2014, and Trump would have sought negotiations to avoid reaching this new armed conflict. War is unpredictable and we play with fire. We allow a regional conflict to metastasize and become a global conflict. That’s why I think we have to be very careful that world leaders don’t push Ukrainians to their end ».