Italy’s defense minister has claimed the U.K. is not doing enough to share its cutting-edge technology with its partners on the tri-nation GCAP fighter program and called the alleged British secrecy “madness.”

Guido Crosetto warned that as long at the U.K. refrained from sharing top tech with its Italian and Japanese partners on the sixth-generation jet program it risked benefiting adversaries around the world.

Crosetto’s accusation was the second time he has singled out the U.K. for holding back on GCAP tech-sharing.

In April 2025 he told Reuters the U.K. needed to bring down the “barriers of selfishness.”

He said at the time, “Italy has broken them down totally, Japan almost totally. It seems to me that the U.K. is much more reluctant to do this, and that’s a mistake because selfishness is the worst enemy of nations.”

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    11 hours ago

    Imagine that, Britain hesitating to share defence information with two fascist states.

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    Beauty, eh?

    Same “game” in different contexts:

    Ditching NATO, every country going it alone, for sake of self-centered-gain, but then everybody ends-up poorer,

    & doing the SAME thing, within a NATO-fighter program.

    See?

    Humankind’s too ignorant/retarded to be viable in The Great Filter, which is about to begin its Regional-Consolidation Stage!

    IF the “GoodGuys” WON’T work right,

    THEN the BadGuys automatically win, by default.

    That’s how ignorance is able to secure the everybody-dies “win” for ignorance, that “proves” there’s “NO alternative!” to it’s dominion.

    Retarded.

    IF you DON’T trust your “allies”, THEN YOU AREN’T REAL ALLIES, ARE YOU??

    UK: either get-in, XOR get out.

    Italy & Japan: IF UK won’t get-in, THEN get some OTHER partner.

    Perhaps UK should do a more-complete Brexit?

    NO trade with ANYbody??

    Wouldn’t that suit the isolationists better?

    You were better-off within the EU, but ideology derailed that, right?

    sigh

    I think England’s monarchism is making objectivity impossible in that country.

    Either that or it’s making correct-reasoning impossible…

    or maybe it’s contaminating both?

    probably…


    As Leonard Shlain pointed-out in “The Alphabet Versus the Goddess”: women’s rights DIDN’T really get going in Latin culture, with its gendered-language & gendered-culture: women’s rights DID get going in English language ( not everything-gendered ) & culture.

    I suspect that monarchism makes other countries’ having equal-validity impossible, due to the class-prejudice it brainwashes everybody into, within it.

    That would fit.

    How could any class trust its “inferiors” to be “on the level”, when class-“superiority” PRESUMES non-equality?

    How could any monarchist-cult/culture possibly treat others as “equal”, when those-others haven’t one’s own “special, important, Monarchy!”…

    I’d love to someday see experiment that could test that correctly, precisely…

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