Sgarbi, Italy’s chief provocateur, says Italy should choose non-belligerence like Malta

In an opinion piece published in ilgiornale.it , Sgarbi writes that “There is no good reason to allow Americans and French use of our (Italy’s) bases in Gioa delle Colle, Trapani, and Sigonella,”

Sgarbi argued that previously, the whole world had witnessed how Italy was the first to thaw out relations between Libya and the rest of the world, and how this ‘evolution’ had interested France, the UK, and even the US. “Gaddaffi, always the same, had he become good? No.”

Sgarbi said that he had simply opted to make the most of a consolidated situation and was driven by the necessity to find a secure ally against the flow of immigration that interested mainly Italy, if not the US.

“Why are we today discovering that Gaddafi is not a democratic leader? He never was.”

He added that the social unrest in Libya is not simply a popular insurrection by the people for a democratic awakening of the country, but a war between tribes in a complicated system that is moved by interests completely separate to those held by the people.

He argued that should Gaddafi’s regime fall, it will not be democracy to replace it, but a web of interests and alliances of the tribal families that will grasp power from the people, establishing a new regime.