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Italy made an "improvised and atrocious" decision when it joined China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) four years ago as it did little to boost exports, Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said in an interview published on Sunday.

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[–] Zeth0s 45 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Not judging if it was a good or bad decision (it was most likely a bad decision), but crosetti is not credible.

Please ignore whatever he says.

We are sorry to the world to have such a shameful mean being, a human disgrace talking about anything.

He even faked a degree in official documents when elected, and as a justification he said "cheating is normal, everybody does it, I always do it".

Never trust that man, ever!

[–] ghostface 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Thank you for your comment, as one never knows how much weight to put on these comments.

But as you stated it doesn't seem to be the economic win in the other countries it had been implemented

[–] Zeth0s 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

A drunk monkey can sometimes pick the right answers from a pool of binary choices.

This might be the case for crosetto. But he is absolutely untrustworthy, everyone should ignore him. He is a cheater, and has no morals at all.

He is dangerous

[–] 1bluepixel 0 points 2 years ago

Boston University's Global Development Policy Center: "Data indicates the BRI strategy has been largely successful."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's almost like any level of investigation into the matter before making the agreement final would've yielded the same information from others that you've experienced yourself. Good work with that due diligence Italy. I'm sure my own country will be making a report much like yours very soon where we also will go "oh no, the consequences of my own actions and the lack of actually looking before I leap!"