Reaching top of the charts on the Maltese strategic political agenda is the question of Malta's neutrality. Many are rightly asking what is exactly being brewed by the hidden hand of both local and European political undercurrents.

Is there a clear vision being presented by our government regarding Malta's foreign policy in respect of Malta's Constitutional neutrality? This feature seeks to skim the surface of what seems to be a rather confounding position.

There are those who argue that the very definition of neutrality as entrenched in the highest law of the land, our Constitution, is being stretched to its very limits very much like a rubber band and soon will be compromised. Being part of the European Union has brought upon member nations obligations that the upper echelons of the EU often "dictate" to member states.

Malta could be seen as having lost some of its freedoms in managing its own affairs, with neutrality being one of the most crucial issues, and may now have to prioritise pleasing the EU over its own preferences. Malta no longer has the freedom to forge its own destiny as this now lies very much in the hands of those who plan the destiny of most of the European continent, that is, the EU.

Another worldwide war on the horizon?

One may rightly question whether there is some discrete agenda whereby our country will serve again as an "unsinkable aircraft carrier" as it did during the Second World War. Is history being repeated right in front of our very own eyes albeit in a rather subtle and sublime fashion? Will Malta serve again as that gigantic airstrip from where jet fighters fly off to bomb foreign lands in the landscape of current conflicts or even in a potential World War III?

Recently, in October 2024, RAF military aircraft landed in Malta for maintenance and refuelling or perhaps as part of a training exercise? One question that begs an answer is whether Malta will eventually accommodate NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) so that it can eventually operate in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

Malta cannot afford taking sides with any belligerent. More so, it should not enter wars. But on the face of it, there is reason to suspect that our country will potentially be part of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The different versions uttered by Prime Minister Robert Abela on Malta's position sound conflicting and confusing to many as to whether Malta should remain neutral or not. Why should tiny Mala invest in defence and send our soldiers in war zones?

Resistance to war

On the other side of the equation our current Maltese President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, and Ursola von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, urge the EU to arm itself as a defensive measure. But is this being done as a deterrent to war or as a stepping stone to go to war?

So far, Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban has resisted and challenged this drive for arming Europe and has declared openly that he is against a war with Russia and against Ukraine joining the EU. If Ukraine forms part of the EU, then the EU will be dragging itself directly into the war between Russia and Ukraine.

One may also ask: Is everything being tailor-made to fit an agenda in creating the "right" scenario by the EU for a war against Russia? Italy has already declared itself openly through its Prime Minister Georgia Meloni that if the EU wants a war against Russia, Italian troops will not form part of any military contingent, even if it is for peaceful purposes.

There are also statements about Malta increasing its military defence spending while other declarations that we are not sending our soldiers to war. Then, the next day you hear a different version that our country needs to finance the war between Russia and Ukraine. Can we have a clear statement and decide on Malta's foreign policy about this ongoing war?

The seriousness of a nuclear war

Let's not underestimate these issues and stop putting them off. The dangers of nuclear war cannot be overstressed enough. The memories of the disastrous explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986 are still fresh in our minds. This accident was the result of human error of just one individual. Up to this very day people are still dying of cancer and babies born with disabilities because of this accident.

If just one nuclear warhead falls on Italy or close to our country, we can all bid farewell to our country. It will be no use rehabilitating our Second World War shelters for protection, and no number of medicines will heal the effects of a nuclear fallout.

The war between Russia and Ukraine is not our war. The bottom line is to protect and respect our hard-fought and hard-earned neutrality and stop beating around the bush with words. Our Constitution speaks clearly on neutrality, and we cannot afford our politicians to play opportunistic games and re-embrace a sub-servient mentality, repeating history by dancing to the fiddle of NATO as Malta did during the 1950s and 1960s.

Our country should act as a centre of peace in the Mediterranean by hosting conferences between belligerents to seek a peaceful resolution to conflicts and not stoke up fires.

A Union divided

Malta joined the EU in 2004. Many say that it is no longer the same Union when Malta joined. Some call the present EU as a dictatorship of the small group that forms its upper echelons. As a result, the Union has been shattered and is now a house divided, especially on the issue of neutrality. The Union may also be feeling the pressure to enter into wars and invest in armaments to feed the sales of armament corporations on the pretext that investment in European defence systems and a European army are required.

Population replacement

Demographically speaking, replacement migration is a policy whereby migration is required for a region or country to achieve a particular objective (demographic, economic or social). Generally, studies using this concept have as an objective the avoidance of the decline of total population and the decline of the working-age population.

Migration of persons entering the EU, both legally and illegally, is leading to the further collapse and disintegration of Europe through an exaggerated injection of foreign workers from across other continents. This is changing the labour market landscape and is seen by right-wing parties not only as a threat to European values, as multiculturalism takes over societies, but also as an encouragement of modern-day slavery through cheap labour policies.

The far-reaching consequences of this are not only being felt across the EU. Malta is also suffering the consequences in not being able to offer work opportunities to its own native population so much so that many thousands emigrate for better prospects elsewhere.

Malta is literally going back to the 1950s and 1960s where the Maltese left Malta in droves during a time when the country was a "slave" to colonialism and the NATO.

Another plan, which many view as being adopted and devised by the EU, is population replacement whereby the ethnic populations are replaced by foreign nationals and this with the blessing of many governments. For instance, the UK, which no longer forms part of the EU is being labelled as the first "Islamic" country of Europe. In fact, JD Vance took the jibe in calling the UK the "1st Islamist country" to get nuclear weapons.

Will Europe, as we know it today, cease to exist, replaced by a new Europe where both legal and illegal migrants are exploited as labour to build a European army to attack other countries? Is this the plan in a nutshell?

The implications about neutrality and other matters are not being realised or understood by many. If not for anything else, we should make sure that our present and future generations are not involved in any conflict which is not theirs and one that will have dire consequences on our country.