62: Italian Defense Strategy and the Geopolitical Situation. Lorenzo Fiori discusses Italy's defense buildup using EU loan deals to acquire new armored vehicles from Germany's Rheinmetall through a joint venture with Leonardo. This modernization is crucial as
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 8 November 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel. To Milan, Italy, to my good friend and colleague Lorenzo Fiore, reporting on business in Italy this time of year, important to announce what the ambitions are in 26 for the Maloney government and for the people of Italy. We begin, however, with climate because |
| 0:23.0 | it is perfect in southern New England, sunny days, below freezing at night, then warm again during |
| 0:30.1 | the day. Good for planting tulips, an allium, especially looking forward to the spring for lilies. |
| 0:40.3 | However, your weather has been various this last year. |
| 0:43.6 | How are you enjoying it in northern Italy this year? |
| 0:46.2 | Good evening to you. |
| 0:47.9 | Good evening, John, and good evening you told the radio listener. |
| 0:50.7 | Let me tell you that the last days are very good here in the north, particularly |
| 0:55.4 | in Milan, where I spent the entire week. The day are sunny, pleasant temperature, not |
| 1:04.2 | particularly cold, night are freezing, but not so much because the humidity is low, so they are pleasant, |
| 1:12.5 | but it's a typical weather of November with something that disappear, |
| 1:17.9 | and this is something that started to happen some years ago, which is the fog. |
| 1:23.6 | We have no more the fog, and this is good because, you know, when there is fog, there is more pollution. |
| 1:29.5 | And this is something that makes more distinctive this November in Milan, in the north of Italy, |
| 1:35.4 | that there is just a very soft wind that cleans the air, so the sky are pretty clear. |
| 1:43.9 | And we don't have the effect of pollution, which is one of the... that cleans the air, so the sky are pretty clear, |
| 1:46.8 | and we don't have the effect of pollution, |
| 1:51.3 | which is one of the worst phenomena in the wintertime across all the north of Italy, |
| 1:54.3 | from the very west to the very east, |
| 1:56.4 | because we are a territory surrounded by the Alps |
| 1:59.7 | that make the air stagnant in the flat territory. |
| 2:06.9 | The news in Italy is dominated by the story of Ukraine and what is to be done. |
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