The EU is a notorious bad loser. Having lost their asset Mario Draghi, they blame it on Putin.
In 1861, Mazzinian anarchists had organized a protest demonstration in Turin. That day, it rained cats and dogs and the demonstration was called off. A satirical newspaper published a cartoon with three Mazzinians under an umbrella, one of them saying: “Piove, governo ladro,” which literally means “it rains, government [is a] thief,” but could be better translated in English as “it rains, blame it on the government.” This expression has become idiomatic in Italy, meaning whatever bad happens, blame it on the government, the government being a thief by definition.
That behavior could be applied to the EU these days, adjusted to “It rains, blame it on Putin.” You could have bet, indeed, that Euridiots would come out claiming that the Italian government crisis was a product of Putin’s interference in Italian politics.
Punctually, EU foreign minister Josep Borrell’s spokesman Peter Stano answered a journalist’s question yesterday saying: “We do not comment on [Italian] internal political developments. But it is a fact that Russia tries to destabilize the EU and its member countries.”
