Tectonic slits

I returned a few days ago from Iceland where I was able to specify the slit that separates the US and Euro-Asian continental plates and cross the bridge that separates the two continents. An allegory appropriate to the current political moment. After JD Vance's speech in Munich and the ambush to Zelensky in Washington, it was possible to feel the plates move and the bridge stretch to the point of fearing a collapse.

Vance's discourse was more significant and premonitory than all the provocative and histriical exaggerations of the duo Trump/Musk. This discourse, and its ferocity in the Washington ambush, stirred the tectonic depths. Not than much of what it said in Munich was not accurate, even discounting the messenger's lack of democratic credibility or the clear exaggeration of the extrapolation of some isolated episodes. Obsession with hate speech threatens, in fact, freedom of expression. Western elites really despise the 'deplorable' people who vote on the most extreme right. The annulment of the Romanian presidential election was even poorly explained and establishes a worrying precedent. And in fact, the massive immigration of very different culturally different people is a potential threat to the deep nature of Europe. All of this is true, all this is important. But now, it's not the most important: when you live an expansionist threat and an iron and fire war, cultural wars are secondary, (even because, unlike the suggested, the European liberal democracy is not the eminence of softening).

Munich's speech reflected a clear and important difference between Trump and Vance. For the president, Europe and its security are transactional issues-that's fine as long as the price is right or as long as US heritage rights are safeguarding (this is the logic of its proposal for Ukraine security). For the vice president they are a matter of consciousness. According to him, the values ​​that Western Europe represents are not worthy of defense, at least not against Russia. Trump is a 'Bravo Duck'. Vance is a crusader of Dark-enlightment. In his crusade against Islamic influence, the moral degeneration of modern societies and in favor of reactionary Christian values, Putin is an ally closer than Western elites. If Jd Vance is to represent Posttrump, the strangulation of Western Europe between the claws of the Careca eagle and the bear's paws will be to last.

To Europe it remains to be resisted only-as the United Kingdom has done in the second major warrior-and expect the tide to change, how it will necessarily happen if democracy and free elections continue to exist in the US. However, the European Union should not respond with the usual demand for unity. This is not possible or necessary. A better strategy is to build a coalition of some Member States and other countries that Trump is alienating, such as Canada, Britain and South Korea. Europeans have the resources, talents and instruments necessary to ensure their sovereignty and restore peace and stability. They should be inspired by Ukraine that he allegedly sustained Russia's watery march.