The blitz is contained in a statement without appeal: "immediate effect". Without warning, as if the war were at the doorstep, inside the coves already crowded with the willing of the Sardinian sun, ready to inaugurate without wasting too much time an imminent summer season. You know, we are in Sardinia, in the heart of the Mediterranean, an island of tourism, especially that of the sea. Yet for a few hours on the coasts of this land, which ended up due to geological flips in the middle of the ancient Mare Nostrum, we have been preparing for war, or rather for "war games", the most violent and invasive ones.
War exhibition
We are at the dress rehearsal, at the less edifying display of the powers of fire, of the latest generation of weapons, as if this was the time to show muscles and provoke the follies of others, as if those already in place were not enough. Sardinia today more than ever a colony and military center of gravity of Italy and NATO. A target internationally pointed to as a theater of war with the most invasive war troops who have chosen the island to simulate the most nefarious scenarios, and practice to fight them. The question, however, arises spontaneously: why deploy dozens and dozens of warships in front of the Poetto and not in front of the Venice Lagoon? Why in front of the remains of Nora rather than those of Pompeii? Why is it facing the dunes of Porto Pino instead of the beaches of the Romagna Riviera? So, however, it is decided, from above, by the Ministry of Defense and the military leaders who have always mistaken Sardinia as the scene of simulated wars, as if this were a no man's land. The General Staff, that of the most disparate weapons, communicated on 5 May last, through the coordination center of "Marina Nord" in La Spezia, that Sardinia must be "immediately" placed under siege. Without delay. With an "urgent" order in addition to the one we have reported in recent weeks, the new operation is triggered. The latest provision, the one just published on the unknown site of the Port Authority of Cagliari, wastes no time and orders with "immediate effect" the establishment and simultaneous interdiction, with absolute prohibition for any possible activity, of as many as 17 areas at sea for military exercises, many of which, indeed, most, right outside the same prohibited areas all year round, those of the three polygons of Quirra-San Lorenzo, Capo Frasca and Teulada. Ordinance 76 of the Command of the Harbor Master's Office is signed by the man of the Ministry of Defense, Captain Mario Valente, who oversees the Sardinian sea. Three pages full of dozens of geographical coordinates as never before to identify 16 sea areas to be prohibited from any kind of activity, to which we must add that of the Oristano Harbor Office which, similarly, has banned the sea area in front of Capo Frasca. The 7,200 hectares of the Teulada polygon, the 12,700 of Perdasdefogu and the 1,200 of Capo Frasca were not enough, this morning the most impressive military exercise ever fielded in the Sardinian sea and in the Sardinian polygons will also extend into areas that have never had anything to do with military servitude. And it won't be a walk in the park.
