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His thoughts on Zelensky and the war in Ukraine had already clearly manifested themselves last May 20, at the table of «Cicciotto» in Marechiaro, the restaurant with a splendid view over the Gulf of Naples: «I believe that a united Europe must make a peace proposal, trying to get Putin’s questions accepted by the Ukrainians», Silvio Berlusconi said to Marta Fascina and Licia Ronzulli, during a break in the works of the Neapolitan Forza Italia convention, between a plate of scialatielli with clams and a salad of squid.


At the time Mario Draghi was still in government and the Knight got sideways for the first time:
“To bring Putin to the negotiating table, you don’t need to make the statements I hear from all sides.” Except then, once the controversy broke out, to reaffirm his loyalty to Europe, to NATO, to the West and to the United States and to agree on sending arms to Kiev. From that day, however, there was an escalation, until yesterday’s words in Milan.

On 22 September, on the eve of the elections that brought Giorgia Meloni to Palazzo Chigi, Berlusconi went to Bruno Vespa as a guest Door to door and he strengthened the concept by justifying his friend Volodia. On that occasion he provided for the first time his “revisionist” reconstruction of the conflict that began a year ago. «Putin has fallen into a dramatic situation – he said – because the two pro-Russian republics of Donbass came to him saying: Zelensky has increased the attacks against us, we have reached 16,000 dead, defend us.

And Putin was therefore prompted to invent this special operation. But the troops had to enter, in a week reach Kiev, replace the government of Zelensky with a government of decent people, and then go back. Instead they encountered an unexpected resistance which was then foddered with weapons of all kinds from the West».

A staunch defense: moreover, more than 20 years of chemistry with the head of the Kremlin cannot be erased at once. Since the Pratica di Mare summit on May 28, 2002, when Berlusconi made Putin and George Bush shake hands, up to the many holidays spent together between the Costa Smeralda and the dacha of Zavidovo with the fur hat on his head. And so, on 18 October last, the Knight began to speak freely again in a meeting with the deputies of Forza Italia.

But the speech, which was supposed to remain confidential, was recorded by an unknown little hand and the audio was then broadcast exclusively by the LaPresse agency: «I don’t see how Putin and Zelensky can come to a mediation table. Zelensky, in my opinion, let’s forget it, I can’t say…».

The responsibility for the war, according to him, lies entirely with the man from Kiev.
And he also confides to the deputies that that telephone that remained silent in February, when he tried in vain to call Putin after the Russian invasion, has now finally started working again: “I’ve reconnected with Putin who considers me the first among his 5 true friends”. reveals. Then the detail of the 20 bottles of vodka sent from Moscow for his birthday (September 29) complete with a “sweet” letter written by the Russian president himself. And finally the “sweet” missive sent in response from Arcore, accompanied by a few cases of Lambrusco.