Milan this weekend and the usual story. Cost-of-living march, then the black-clad ones peel off, start smashing windows and emptying shops. Police show up eventually, but by then half the stock’s already gone. Then you see the locals. Ordinary blokes with batons, chasing the ones running out of the stores. Not waiting around for permission. Not debating root causes while the glass is still on the floor. Just protecting what’s theirs because no one else is doing it in that moment. These aren’t protesters. They’re looters who turn a demo into a free-for-all and scarper the second someone pushes back. Meloni called them thugs. The people swinging the sticks are the ones actually defending the city. I stand with them. Not the ones setting it on fire.