Ma𝕏 Salvato

Surf, desert and life in Abu Dhabi (UAE) as an Italian expat

[Bettino Ricasoli @RicasoliBarone]

L’hanno fatta provare al Papa perché è l’unico che non può bestemmiare

[Ma𝕏 Salvato @max_slvt]

@teovito Milano? Passo a trovarti 😎

[Ma𝕏 Salvato @max_slvt]

@GiorgiaMeloni @FrRonconi La chiamano democrazia quella di Israele.

[Ma𝕏 Salvato @max_slvt]

@Kallang22 I knew it!!!

[Ma𝕏 Salvato @max_slvt]

@Kallang22 Now yes.

[Ma𝕏 Salvato @max_slvt]

Out of curiosity: where is Sleepy Biden? He completely disappeared from the scenes.

[🇦🇪 HGS @Sajwani]

SpaceX ride hailing:

London to Dubai 🇦🇪
39 minutes

Tokyo to Cairo
27 minutes

Sydney to New Delhi
31 minutes

Los Angeles to Abu Dhabi 🇦🇪
33 minutes

Starship is the future 🚀 …. Elon Musk is a genius !

[Ma𝕏 Salvato @max_slvt]

@Kallang22 At that price I wouldn’t accept a “bad” pain au chocolat

[Ma𝕏 Salvato @max_slvt]

@Xking332 Please share evidence/proof

[Ma𝕏 Salvato @max_slvt]

@araghchi Thanks

[Ma𝕏 Salvato @max_slvt]

@jamiebsmith @rta_dubai You can use the sms option.

[Ma𝕏 Salvato @max_slvt]

@jimmyg @Starlink Fast question: WhatsApp calls work without VPN?

[Ma𝕏 Salvato @max_slvt]

@Ryanair_IT Siete in anticipo. Il pesce d’aprile è domani.

[Ma𝕏 Salvato @max_slvt]

@Wonderlover85 Revolut

[Ma𝕏 Salvato @max_slvt]

@SouthAsiaIndex He blew trillions of dollars of investments from the Middle East. How is he thinking to make America great again?

[Ma𝕏 Salvato @max_slvt]

@Bu3osha Brotherhood ❤️🇮🇹🇦🇪

[Ma𝕏 Salvato @max_slvt]

@Kallang22 I have friend leaving tomorrow from Muscat with the Japanese flight.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

Italy was not attacked.

Yet Rome just announced it has supplied Gulf countries with air defense, anti-drone, and anti-missile systems including the SAMP/T, one of Europe’s most advanced surface-to-air batteries.

The same SAMP/T Italy has been sending to Ukraine to stop Russian missiles.

Italy has two of them. One is already in Ukraine. One was destroyed there.

And now Italy is sending what it has left to the Gulf.

Let that arithmetic sit for a moment.

Here is the five-layer architecture of why Italy moved faster than any other European power.

Layer one is blood. 2,000 Italian troops are stationed in Gulf bases right now. Iranian missiles have already struck a Kuwaiti runway hosting Italian military personnel. When your soldiers are sleeping 40 kilometers from incoming ballistic missiles, you do not wait for a UN resolution. You send the hardware.

Layer two is bodies. Tens of thousands of Italian civilians live and work across the Gulf states, in energy companies, construction firms, diplomatic missions. If Gulf air defense collapses and evacuation becomes necessary, Italy needs a protected corridor out. SAMP/T buys that corridor. Every intercepted Iranian missile is a potential evacuation flight that still takes off.

Layer three is heat. Italy imports 15 to 20% of its natural gas from the Gulf. The LNG terminals, pipelines, and loading infrastructure Iran has been systematically targeting are not abstract geopolitical assets. They are what keeps Italian factories running and Italian homes warm next winter. Italy is not defending the Gulf. It is defending its own energy supply from 3,000 kilometers away using weapons instead of prayers.

Layer four is the Spanish mirror. When Spain told Trump no to base access and the NATO alliance fractured publicly, every European capital began calculating what refusal costs. Giorgia Meloni chose the opposite calculation. Italy supplying Gulf air defense while Spain deploys a single frigate to Cyprus for optics is the loudest possible statement about which European power wants the next decade of American defense contracts, intelligence sharing, and strategic relevance. This is not generosity. This is investment.

Layer five is the wolf at the door nobody is naming. Italy has 28,000 sensitive targets under enhanced domestic surveillance right now per ANSA. Hezbollah has infrastructure across Europe. Iran has proxy networks with decades of history on Italian soil. Italy is not just protecting assets in the Gulf. It is managing the domestic threat calculus of a government that has read its own intelligence files and understood that the cost of staying out may be paid at home, not abroad.

The SAMP/T is not a gift to the Gulf.

It is Italy buying the right to control what comes next: the peace negotiations, the reconstruction contracts, the post-war energy architecture, the seat at the table when the map gets redrawn.

Every European power that stayed silent this week just ceded that seat.

Italy just bought it with the last air defense battery it had.

https://t.co/ULBgEzZ3A8

[Ma𝕏 Salvato @max_slvt]

@GuidoCrosetto @Mov5Stelle Quindi nessuna vendita di armamenti Leonardo?