As a member of NATO, Italy must allocate an average amount of 52 million euro per day to military spending, according to official data of NATO itself. The Stockholm International Institute for Peace Research calculates that figure as actually greater than 72 million euro a day. According to the commitments made by the Italian government in the framework of the Alliance, Italian military spending will be increased to over 100 million euro per day. It is a huge outlay of public money, which is subtracted from social spending, contributed for an alliance whose strategy is not defensive, as it proclaims, but offensive. Already on November 7, 1991, shortly after the first Gulf War (which NATO had participated in unofficially, through its forces and structures), the North Atlantic Council approved the New Strategic Concept, reiterated and formalized at the April 1999 summit in Washington, which commits member countries to conduct military operations in "response to crises not provided for in Article 5, outside the territory of the Alliance," for the sake of global, economic, energy, and migratory security. From an alliance that commits its member countries to participate with its armed forces should a member country of the North-Atlantic Alliance be attacked, NATO was transformed into an alliance for carrying out military aggression. The new strategy was put into effect with the wars in Yugoslavia (1994-1995 and 1999), Afghanistan (2001 to 2015), Libya (2011) and the actions to destabilize Ukraine in alliance with local fascist forces and in Syria. The new strategic concept violates the principles of the UN Charter. By leaving NATO, Italy would remove itself from this strategy of permanent war, which violates our Constitution, in particular Article 11, and damages our real national interests. Membership in NATO deprives the Italian Republic of its ability to make autonomous choices for foreign and military policy, democratically adopted by Parliament on the basis of Constitutional principles. The highest military post inside NATO, the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, is always a U.S. general appointed by the president of the United States. And the other key NATO commands are assigned to senior U.S. officers. NATO is therefore, in fact, under the command of the United States, which uses it for its military, political and economic goals. Membership in NATO therefore reinforces Italy’s subjection to the United States, as exemplified by the network of U.S./NATO military bases on our territory that have turned our country into a sort of U.S. aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean. What is particularly serious is that U.S. nuclear bombs are present in some of these bases and that Italian pilots are also being trained in their use. Italy thus violates the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which it has signed and ratified. By leaving NATO and becoming neutral, Italy would recover a substantial part of its sovereignty and would then be able to act as a bridge of peace towards the South and the East. Support the campaign for Italy's exit from NATO for a neutral Italy PEACE NEEDS YOU, TOO Traduzione a cura di John Catalinotto, caporedattore del giornale Workers World, New York.