Sending troops to Ukraine: Salvini advises Macron to go “to get treatment”

Western soldiers in Ukraine against Russia? Matteo Salvini, the Italian vice-president, strongly condemned Emmanuel Macron’s proposal on Wednesday, suggesting he should “seek treatment.”

Familiar statements that run counter to the pro-Kiev policies of Prime Minister Georgia Meloni, the leader of La Liga (far right) reacted to journalists to recent statements by Emmanuel Macron and former Italian Council President Mario Monti, according to whom it may ultimately be “necessary” to send soldiers to Ukraine.

“They need to seek treatment,” said a close ally of Marine Le Pen. “Those who hold this opinion and say it as if it is something normal, and this applies to both Macron and Monti, are dangerous.” “If they so want to fight, then let them go to Ukraine, tomorrow they will be expected,” he added.

Already in March, he accused Emmanuel Macron of being “a danger to our country and our continent.”

Fan of Putin’s Russia

Matteo Salvini, on the other hand, welcomed the speech of Russian President Vladimir Putin during his inauguration on Tuesday in the Kremlin: “Yesterday, Putin, among other things, invited dialogue, and I hope that 2024 will be the year of peace, not of soldiers.” went to die in Ukraine. »

Matteo Salvini in early April overcame a vote of no confidence brought to parliament by the opposition, which accused the League of not cutting ties with Vladimir Putin and his United Russia party after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

A longtime fan of Vladimir Putin, on March 6, 2017, he signed a five-year agreement with United Russia, which was automatically renewed in 2022. -the election of Vladimir Putin (“When the people vote, they are always right”) or the death in prison of Alexei Navalny, the main opponent of the Russian president, who believed that “doctors and judges” should shed light on the circumstances of his death to Russians.

When asked to respond to Matteo Salvini’s statements, the head of diplomacy, Antonio Tajani, also vice-president of the council, simply recalled that Rome did not intend to send soldiers to Ukraine.

According to La République en Marche MEP Sandro Gosi, “Salvini is very concerned about his future in the government, to the point of taking every opportunity to become a representative of the Kremlin.”

The League, allied at European level with the French National Rally and Germany’s AfD, is losing momentum and is credited with between 8% and 8.5% of the vote in June’s European elections.