After Neptune Strike 25-1, Sardinia hosts Joint Stars 2025, considered the most important joint exercise of the Italian Defense. Alongside this training event, a two-day charity event was organized, on May 10 and 11, “Joint Stars for Charity” to raise funds for the purchase of two stations with as many automatic respirators to start pediatric resuscitation at the Brotzu hospital in Cagliari.
An initiative that is causing controversy, even on social media, because it is seen as "war propaganda". 62 associations (cultural, independentist, antimilitarist, political movements, unions and others) have made explicit their opposition to the demonstration linked to the exercise, signing a note in which they propose "to boycott the demonstration in a nonviolent manner, deserting the places of the related propaganda initiatives".
The undersigned associations also ask «the President of the Region, Alessandra Todde, the Health Councillor Armando Bartolazzi, the Mayor of Cagliari Massimo Zedda, the school authorities and all the public and private bodies involved to review their positions with respect to this initiative and to renounce any form of war propaganda, especially towards minors, the sick and their families».
On April 17, "Operation Joint Stars was officially announced, yet another Italian inter-force military exercise on the land, in the skies and in the seas of Sardinia, with the usual consequences of pollution, environmental devastation and contempt for the constitutional prerogatives of a region with a special statute that for years has expressed a negative opinion on similar activities and has asked for the environmental restoration of places devastated by bombs and munitions, without any results," the note reads, "this time, however, the issue appears even more serious because it is accompanied by a propaganda campaign sponsored by a conglomeration of subjects that includes the major regional institutions and large public and private entities. While institutions often turn a blind eye to the incessant requests of consumer and patient organizations and fail to act with the urgency needed to facilitate the recovery of a healthcare system in disarray, which requires that 2% of GDP that together with Pope Francis we consider absolutely crazy.
