Young men are dying in Ukraine and the
Middle East out of nationalism and fanaticism, President Sergio
Mattarella told military cadets Friday.
"The bloody fighting in Ukraine and the massacre triggered by
Hamas's cowardly terrorist attack against helpless Israeli
civilians, with the spiral of violence that has ensued, show, in
all its dramatic nature, the fragility of peace," he said.
"The barbarity of war has not abandoned our world.
"Young men like you are fighting and dying due to nationalist
extremism and fanaticism distant from our values."
Mattarella also said "you serve the homeland by defending the
rights of all".
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