Salvini disowns Putin and plays pro-Ukrainian. Meloni sighs and looks for Macron

Nine minutes and fifty-eight seconds to rub your eyes. Matthew Salvini he intervenes in the conference, which has become bilateral, on the reconstruction of Ukraine and forgets – he overcomes or maybe who knows tomorrow will be another day – fourteen months of ambiguity one step away from pro-Putinism on the conflict. I mean, do you remember Vladimir? At the Palazzo dei Congressi of the EUR, the leader of the League, as well as deputy prime minister and minister of infrastructures, “reaffirms the closeness of all of Italy to the Ukrainian people”. But above all, perhaps for the first time, Salvini mentions the “damage caused by the Russian aggression: very heavy”. Hey there. The man who wanted to go to Moscow to whisper good practices to Putin, with plane tickets paid for by the Russian embassy and Antonio Capuano’s tips, is now here, on stage, guarantor of “Italian added value” in reconstruction. To beat one’s chest “in defense of the non-negotiable values ​​of peace and freedom”. The shyness to the point of reluctance in sending weapons to Kyiv, the pondered Atlanticism, the suspicions and worries of Giorgia Meloni for a moment – ​​a long one: nine minutes and fifty-eight seconds – vanish. Salvini reads. And he repeats: “At the European level, my commitment is to ensure the completion of the Ten-T networks, in particular the Adriatic-Baltic corridor and the Mediterranean corridor, which have the eastern terminal in Ukraine”. Railways, logistics, technologies. The fears of Zelensky’s government counterpart, Oleksandr Kubrakov, vanish for one morning.