‘PUT YOUR HELMET ON’: Italian Deputy PM Salvini Ridicules Macron’s Plan to Send ‘Peacekeeping’ Troops to Ukraine – French President Summons Italian Ambassador (VIDEO)
Italians have had it with Macron’s warmongering.
Franco-Italian relations underwent some minor bumps in the road as the two countries diverge over the plan by some Euro-Globalists to send ‘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 leader Mateo Salvini, presently deputy Prime Minister, had a very candid answer when asked about Frech President Emmanuel Macron’s plan for European boots on the ground.
‘If Macron wants to go to Ukraine, he can go’
Italian Dep PM Salvini says Macron is ON HIS OWN and Italy will NEVER send 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 soldiers be deployed in Ukraine in a post-war settlement, a French diplomatic source said on Saturday.
Asked earlier this week to comment on French President Emmanuel Macron’s appeals to deploy European soldiers in Ukraine after any settlement with Russia, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini used a Milanese dialect phrase loosely translatable as ‘get lost’.”
Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini rejects Macron’s call for European troops in Ukraine:
Italian soldiers in Ukraine? Absolutely not.
If Macron wants it, let him go himself.
Put on a helmet, take a rifle and go. pic.twitter.com/IMX8q1HuOh
— Clash Report (@clashreport) August 24, 2025
“’You go there if you want. Put your helmet on, your jacket, your rifle and you go to Ukraine’, he told reporters, referring to Macron.”
After that, the Italian ambassador was summoned on Friday (22), the diplomatic source said told Reuters.
“’The ambassador was reminded that these remarks ran counter to the climate of trust and the historical relationship between our two countries, as well as to recent bilateral developments, which have highlighted strong convergences between the two countries, particularly with regard to unwavering support for Ukraine’, the source said.”
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