Italians have had it with Macron’s warmongering.
Franco-Italian relations underwent some minor bumps within the street as the 2 international locations diverge over the plan by some Euro-Globalists to ship ‘peacekeeping’ troops into Ukraine after a peace plan is reached.
[This plan will go nowhere as the Russian side has repeatedly alerted that it will not agree to NATO peacekeepers on the ground.]
The Italian rightwing chief Mateo Salvini, presently deputy Prime Minister, had a really candid reply when requested about Frech President Emmanuel Macron’s plan for European boots on the bottom.
‘If Macron desires to go to Ukraine, he can go’
Italian Dep PM Salvini says Macron is ON HIS OWN and Italy will NEVER ship troops to Ukraine pic.twitter.com/Rzwf3wemBt
— RT (@RT_com) August 23, 2025
This infuriated ‘le petit roi’ Macron, who reacted swiftly.
Reuters reported:
“France summoned the Italian ambassador after Italy’s deputy prime minister challenged the French president for suggesting that European troopers be deployed in Ukraine in a post-war settlement, a French diplomatic supply stated on Saturday.
Requested earlier this week to touch upon French President Emmanuel Macron’s appeals to deploy European troopers in Ukraine after any settlement with Russia, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini used a Milanese dialect phrase loosely translatable as ‘get misplaced’.”
Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini rejects Macron’s name for European troops in Ukraine:
Italian troopers in Ukraine? Completely not.
If Macron desires it, let him go himself.
Placed on a helmet, take a rifle and go. pic.twitter.com/IMX8q1HuOh
— Conflict Report (@clashreport) August 24, 2025
“’You go there if you would like. Put your helmet on, your jacket, your rifle and also you go to Ukraine’, he informed reporters, referring to Macron.”
After that, the Italian ambassador was summoned on Friday (22), the diplomatic supply stated informed Reuters.
“’The ambassador was reminded that these remarks ran counter to the local weather of belief and the historic relationship between our two international locations, in addition to to latest bilateral developments, which have highlighted sturdy convergences between the 2 international locations, significantly with regard to unwavering help for Ukraine’, the supply stated.”
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