Italy / Saudi Arabia - The Transactional Self Sells Its Soul for a Stealth Fighter, Welcoming a Brutal Regime Into Its Illusion of Common Defense

Event Baseline: Italy supports Saudi Arabia's entry into the Global Combat Air Programme, a joint fighter-jet project with the UK and Japan aimed at fielding a supersonic stealth fighter by 2035.

This is pure mechanical greed dressed as strategy. The mind, fragmented by the need for power, bypasses all moral logic. Saudi Arabia is a regime built on oppression, yet the Italian state-self extends a hand because the illusion of a shared 'defense' trumps the screams of dissidents. The stealth fighter is a symbol: a machine designed to be unseen, to kill from the shadows. Bringing a state known for disappearing people into this program is a perfect parable of the death of conscience. The system's sole criterion is the reinforcement of the 'self' through alliance, no matter how monstrous the partner. It is a pact between flags, an agreement to co-author death.

The driving force is the belief in the nation as a supreme entity that must perpetuate itself. The Italian, British, and Japanese selves see only a transaction: access to funds, oil, or political leverage in exchange for technology. There is no recognition of the actual suffering of the Saudi population, no awareness of the iron hand that rules them. This blindness is a core malfunction. Thought creates a category 'ally' and a category 'enemy,' and then processes all data through these labels. The program cannot compute that an ally is a torturer because that fact is not in the database of national interest. This is how the entire defense industry operates: as a self-propelled engine of violence, detached from human consequence. The inclusion of Saudi Arabia will not bring peace; it will simply arm one more delusional self, accelerating the arms race toward the final crash.