# Activist Opposes Rearmament and Western Military Policy - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2118255955557183843 - Source account: [@riccidavide282](https://x.com/riccidavide282) - Source language: Italian - Target language: English - Duration: 2:31 - Published: 2026-11-05 - Machine translated. Check the original before quoting. - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xb2Q5gopK1IZ/en/activist-opposes-rearmament-and-western-military-policy - Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xb2Q5gopK1IZ/it/leva-volontaria-riarmo-e-ucraina-la-critica-alla-militarizzazione-occidentale.md ## Transcript [0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xb2Q5gopK1IZ/en/activist-opposes-rearmament-and-western-military-policy) On voluntary military service, they say no. Luca, why? [0:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xb2Q5gopK1IZ/en/activist-opposes-rearmament-and-western-military-policy?t=4) Exactly. The— the millions of people who have taken to the streets in this country over these past months have sent a clear message: we won't enlist, we don't want to be complicit in a genocide incited by the West. [0:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xb2Q5gopK1IZ/en/activist-opposes-rearmament-and-western-military-policy?t=16) Let's put an end to this little story I've heard up to now about external enemies, there is no external enemy. [0:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xb2Q5gopK1IZ/en/activist-opposes-rearmament-and-western-military-policy?t=24) The West is creating the war, just as it did a century ago, the West is creating it, and for the past 30 years all it's done is bring wars to countries around the world. [0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xb2Q5gopK1IZ/en/activist-opposes-rearmament-and-western-military-policy?t=33) The European Union itself was built through war, the bombings of— of Serbia, of the Middle East don't even get me started, between the destruction of Iraq, the genocide, complicity in the genocide in Palestine. [0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xb2Q5gopK1IZ/en/activist-opposes-rearmament-and-western-military-policy?t=46) And these days we see that Trump even unilaterally closes Venezuelan airspace on the pretext, yet another pretext, of— of the drug lords. [0:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xb2Q5gopK1IZ/en/activist-opposes-rearmament-and-western-military-policy?t=56) But wasn't the violence in the streets? We don't think that's the issue. [1:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xb2Q5gopK1IZ/en/activist-opposes-rearmament-and-western-military-policy?t=60) The issue is Western violence that brings war all over the world, I mean, come on— But on this—on this issue, can you give a definitive answer? [1:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xb2Q5gopK1IZ/en/activist-opposes-rearmament-and-western-military-policy?t=69) Do you condemn the violence in the streets? [1:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xb2Q5gopK1IZ/en/activist-opposes-rearmament-and-western-military-policy?t=71) My answer is that the issue is the violence of militarization they're trying to impose in schools and universities, the violence of the militarization under the Security Decree that seeks to silence dissent in this country. [1:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xb2Q5gopK1IZ/en/activist-opposes-rearmament-and-western-military-policy?t=84) There is a problem in this country, there is a red alert, which is the red alert over spending on the mad rush to rearm, which is not only the prelude to a third world war, and this is a historical fact, we're not the ones saying it, historians are. [1:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xb2Q5gopK1IZ/en/activist-opposes-rearmament-and-western-military-policy?t=98) We don't want to end up like the sleepwalkers at the start of the last century, we won't end up like the boiled frog and we'll keep taking to the streets to oppose war, to oppose the militarization of schools and universities and to oppose rearmament, whether national or European. [1:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xb2Q5gopK1IZ/en/activist-opposes-rearmament-and-western-military-policy?t=114) What should be done about Ukraine? But, uh, it's not clear when we came to believe that peace is built by manufacturing and sending weapons all over the world. [2:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xb2Q5gopK1IZ/en/activist-opposes-rearmament-and-western-military-policy?t=126) It's not clear, in short— in fact, let's start with the United Nations. [2:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xb2Q5gopK1IZ/en/activist-opposes-rearmament-and-western-military-policy?t=129) There are United Nations resolutions that make it crystal clear that on one side of the world, there's Israel, the United States, Ukraine and a few Western countries and on the other side, the rest of the world that doesn't want war but is no longer willing to live under the West's iron heel.